Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Spanish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

2.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

3.

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

Bacon, Francis

4.

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

5.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

6.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

7.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

8.

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

9.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

10.

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

Huxley, Aldous

11.

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

Latin Proverb

12.

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

Swedish Proverb

13.

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

Alger, William R.

14.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

15.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

16.

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

Jewish Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

Belgian Proverb

19.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

23.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

24.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

25.

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

26.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

27.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

28.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

29.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

30.

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

Joubert, Joseph

31.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

32.

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

Chinese Proverb

33.

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

Japanese Proverb

34.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Jewish Proverb

37.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

38.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

39.

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.

Czech Proverb

40.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

41.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

42.

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

Swedish Proverb

43.

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

Irish Proverb

44.

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

Chinese Proverb

45.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

46.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

47.

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Proverb

48.

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

German Proverb

49.

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

Oriental Proverb

50.

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