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If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
- Oriental Proverb
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

2.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

3.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb

4.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

5.
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb

6.
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb

7.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

8.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

9.
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb

10.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

11.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

12.
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb

13.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

14.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

15.
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

16.
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

17.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

18.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

19.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

20.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb

21.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

22.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

23.
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

24.
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

25.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

26.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

27.
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb

28.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

29.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

30.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb

31.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

32.
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb

33.
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

34.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

35.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

36.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

37.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

38.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

39.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

40.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

41.
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.

42.
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

43.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

44.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis

45.
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

46.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

47.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

48.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

49.
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

50.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb


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