Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Scottish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Bulgarian Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Huxley, Aldous

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese 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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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

14.

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

Keats, John

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

Jewish Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Alger, William R.

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

Oriental Proverb

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

French Proverb

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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

German Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

27.

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

Latin Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian 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

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese 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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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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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 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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A full cup must be carried steadily.

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