Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Scottish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

French Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

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

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

10.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Irish Proverb

12.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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

Latin Proverb

14.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

15.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

16.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Joubert, Joseph

18.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

19.

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

Jewish Proverb

20.

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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

Latin Proverb

28.

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

Spanish Proverb

29.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech 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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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

33.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

African Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

42.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

43.

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

44.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

48.

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 full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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

Keats, John