Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

- Kurdish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

Joubert, Joseph

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese Proverb

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

10.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

11.

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Proverb

12.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

13.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Seneca

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For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

Florio, John

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Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Scottish Proverb

17.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Swedish Proverb

18.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

19.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Scandinavian Proverb

20.

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

21.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

22.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin Proverb

23.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

24.

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.

Belgian Proverb

25.

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Spanish Proverb

26.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

27.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

28.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

29.

Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.

Indian Proverb

30.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

Jewish Proverb

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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Alger, William R.

32.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

33.

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.

Jewish Proverb

34.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

35.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Jewish Proverb

36.

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Proverb

37.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

38.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Huxley, Aldous

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

40.

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.

Czech Proverb

41.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.

Morely, John

43.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

44.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

African Proverb

45.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

46.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

47.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Baker, Nicholson

49.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

Johnson, Samuel