Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

Best Quotes about Proverbs

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Bulgarian Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

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

French Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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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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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

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

Chinese 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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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Joubert, Joseph

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian 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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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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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.

Morely, John

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

Alger, William R.

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Dutch 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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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.