Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Never give a child a sword.

- Latin Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Oriental Proverb

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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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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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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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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.

Swedish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

Malayan Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

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

French Proverb

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

African Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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

German Proverb

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

Belgian 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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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb