Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Scandinavian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

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

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

Chinese Proverb

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

French Proverb

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan 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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Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

Chinese Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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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

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Chinese 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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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish 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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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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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

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Jewish Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese 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.

Japanese Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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

Russell, John

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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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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

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

Jewish Proverb

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