Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

- Kurdish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Jewish Proverb

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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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

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Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

Chinese Proverb

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Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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

Czech Proverb

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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Chinese Proverb

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Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.

Japanese Proverb

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The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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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

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Bacon, Francis

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

German Proverb

34.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Chinese Proverb

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.

Hardy, Thomas

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Chinese Proverb

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Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.