Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Latin Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Oriental Proverb

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

Japanese Proverb

11.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

12.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Spanish Proverb

14.

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.

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Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.

French Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

17.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

18.

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

19.

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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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Dutch Proverb

21.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

22.

A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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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

24.

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

Huxley, Aldous

25.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

26.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

27.

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

Chinese Proverb

28.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish 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

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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Jewish Proverb

32.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

33.

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

34.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

35.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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One kind word can warm three winter months.