Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

A smiling face is half the meal.

- Latvian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

10.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

Sontag, Susan

13.

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

Spanish Proverb

14.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

15.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

16.

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

Chinese Proverb

17.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

18.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

19.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

20.

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

Chinese Proverb

21.

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

Japanese Proverb

22.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

23.

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

Spanish Proverb

24.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

25.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

26.

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Russell, John

27.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

28.

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

Japanese Proverb

29.

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

Chinese Proverb

30.

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

Scottish Proverb

31.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

32.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

33.

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

German Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Jewish Proverb

36.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

37.

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

African Proverb

39.

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.

40.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

41.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

42.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

43.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

44.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

Dahlberg, Edward

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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

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

48.

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

Malayan Proverb

49.

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

Latin Proverb

50.

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