Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

A proverb is the child of experience.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Malayan Proverb

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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

African Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

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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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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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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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

17.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

18.

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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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

20.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

21.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Jewish Proverb

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

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

Latin Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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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

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

32.

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

Chinese Proverb

33.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

34.

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

Japanese Proverb

35.

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

Czech Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

41.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese 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

43.

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

Sontag, Susan

44.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese 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

46.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

47.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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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

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The big thieves hang the little ones.