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.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

2.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

3.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

4.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

5.

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

6.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

7.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

8.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

9.

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

Chinese Proverb

10.

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

11.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

12.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

13.

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

Latin Proverb

14.

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

Belgian Proverb

15.

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

Dutch Proverb

16.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

17.

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

Spanish Proverb

18.

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

Jewish Proverb

19.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

20.

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

Chinese Proverb

21.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

22.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

23.

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

Malayan Proverb

24.

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

25.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

26.

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

Jewish Proverb

27.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

28.

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

Swedish Proverb

29.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

30.

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

Sontag, Susan

31.

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

32.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

33.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

34.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

35.

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

Keats, John

36.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

Japanese Proverb

39.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

40.

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

41.

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