Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

A smiling face is half the meal.

- Latvian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Belgian Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

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

Scottish Proverb

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

African Proverb

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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

10.

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

Spanish Proverb

11.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

12.

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

Latin Proverb

13.

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

Jewish Proverb

14.

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

Chinese Proverb

15.

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

French Proverb

16.

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

German Proverb

18.

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

Chinese Proverb

19.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

20.

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

Alger, William R.

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

22.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

23.

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

Russell, John

24.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

25.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

26.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

27.

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

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

Malayan Proverb

30.

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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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

32.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

33.

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

34.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

36.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

37.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Scandinavian Proverb

39.

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

Japanese Proverb

40.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

41.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

42.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

47.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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