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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
- Spanish Proverb
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

2.
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb

3.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

4.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb

5.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb

6.
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

7.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

8.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

9.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

10.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

11.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

12.
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb

13.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

14.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

15.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

16.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

17.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

18.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

19.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb

20.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

21.
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

22.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb

23.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb

24.
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

25.
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

26.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb

27.
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb

28.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

29.
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

30.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb

31.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

32.
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.

33.
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

34.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

35.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

36.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

37.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb

38.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

39.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

40.
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

41.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

42.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

43.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

44.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb

45.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

46.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

47.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

48.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

49.
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb

50.
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb


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