Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

- Morley, John

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Chinese Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Dutch Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

10.

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

Malayan Proverb

11.

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

12.

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

African Proverb

13.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

14.

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

Russell, John

15.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

Scottish Proverb

18.

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

Malayan Proverb

19.

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

Spanish Proverb

20.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

23.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

24.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

25.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

26.

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

Latin Proverb

27.

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

Chinese Proverb

28.

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

Czech Proverb

29.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

30.

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

Jewish Proverb

31.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

32.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

33.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

34.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

35.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

36.

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

German 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

38.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian 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

40.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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