Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Russell, John

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

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.

2.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

3.

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

Jewish Proverb

4.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

5.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

6.

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

French Proverb

7.

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

8.

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

Latin Proverb

9.

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

Oriental Proverb

10.

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

Belgian Proverb

11.

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

German Proverb

12.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

13.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

14.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

15.

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

16.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

17.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

18.

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

Jewish Proverb

19.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

20.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

21.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

22.

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

Czech Proverb

23.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

24.

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

Sontag, Susan

25.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

26.

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

Russell, John

27.

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.

Swedish Proverb

28.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

29.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

30.

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

Jewish Proverb

31.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

34.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

35.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

36.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

37.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

38.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

39.

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

Bacon, Francis

40.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

41.

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

Spanish Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

Chinese Proverb

44.

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

Swedish Proverb

45.

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

Keats, John

46.

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