Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

2.

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

Joubert, Joseph

3.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

4.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

5.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

6.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

7.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

8.

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

Jewish Proverb

9.

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

Belgian Proverb

10.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

11.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

12.

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

Dutch Proverb

13.

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

French Proverb

14.

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

Japanese Proverb

15.

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

Jewish Proverb

16.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

17.

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Irish Proverb

18.

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

Swedish Proverb

19.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

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

Russell, John

21.

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

Huxley, Aldous

22.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

23.

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

Chinese Proverb

24.

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

African Proverb

25.

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

Czech Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Spanish Proverb

28.

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

Jewish Proverb

29.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

32.

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

33.

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

Malayan Proverb

34.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

35.

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

Chinese Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Latin Proverb

38.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

39.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

40.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

41.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

42.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

43.

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

44.

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

Keats, John

45.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

46.

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

47.

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

Latin Proverb

48.

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

49.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

50.

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

Malayan Proverb