Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Never give a child a sword.

- Latin Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Belgian Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Keats, John

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

10.

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

Latin Proverb

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

13.

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

Scottish Proverb

14.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

15.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

16.

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

French Proverb

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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

18.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

19.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Bulgarian Proverb

20.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

21.

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

Chinese Proverb

22.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

23.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

24.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

25.

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Sontag, Susan

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It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

Latin Proverb

27.

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

Oriental Proverb

28.

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

29.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

30.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

32.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese 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

34.

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

35.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Czech Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

44.

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

Spanish Proverb

45.

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

Spanish Proverb

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