Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

- Morley, John

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Japanese Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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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

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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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

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

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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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Oriental Proverb

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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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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

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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

Chinese 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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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

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English 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

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

Scandinavian 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

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

Chinese Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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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

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous