Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

A proverb is the child of experience.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

German Proverb

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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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.

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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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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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

Latin 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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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

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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

Russell, John

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

French Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Japanese Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Czech Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

Oriental 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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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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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb