Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

- Slovenian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

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

Oriental Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

11.

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

Jewish Proverb

12.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

13.

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

Bacon, Francis

15.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

16.

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

Belgian Proverb

17.

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

African Proverb

18.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

19.

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

French Proverb

20.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

21.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

22.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

23.

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

Scottish Proverb

24.

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

Spanish Proverb

25.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Russell, John

27.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

28.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

30.

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

32.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

33.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

34.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

35.

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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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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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

38.

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

Joubert, Joseph

39.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

40.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

41.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

42.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

43.

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Spanish Proverb

44.

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

German Proverb

45.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

46.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

Japanese Proverb

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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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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

49.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

50.

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

Chinese Proverb