Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Hold a true friend with both hands.

- Nigerian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Scottish Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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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

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish 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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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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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

22.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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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

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

Dutch Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Alger, William R.

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

Russell, John

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

African Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

Irish Proverb

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

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

Jewish Proverb

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