Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Spanish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

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

Keats, John

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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

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

Dutch Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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

Czech Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.

Chinese Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese 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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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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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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

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

Jewish Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

French Proverb

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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 reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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

Russell, John

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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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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Irish Proverb

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

Latin Proverb