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Hold a true friend with both hands.
- Nigerian Proverb
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

2.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb

3.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

4.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John

5.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

6.
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

7.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

8.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

9.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

10.
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

11.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

12.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

13.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

14.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb

15.
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb

16.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

17.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

18.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

19.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb

20.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb

21.
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

22.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

23.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

24.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

25.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

26.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

27.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

28.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

29.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

30.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

31.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

32.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

33.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

34.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb

35.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

36.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

37.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb

38.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

39.
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb

40.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb

41.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb

42.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

43.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

44.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

45.
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb

46.
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

47.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

48.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

49.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

50.
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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