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

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

10.

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

Chinese Proverb

11.

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

Oriental Proverb

12.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

13.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

14.

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

Keats, John

16.

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

17.

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

Malayan Proverb

18.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

19.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

20.

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

Dutch Proverb

21.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

22.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

23.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

24.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

25.

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

26.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

27.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

28.

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

Spanish Proverb

29.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

30.

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

Belgian Proverb

31.

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

Chinese Proverb

32.

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

Sontag, Susan

33.

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

Japanese Proverb

34.

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

Scottish Proverb

35.

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.

36.

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

Spanish Proverb

37.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

38.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

39.

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

French Proverb

40.

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

Joubert, Joseph

41.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

42.

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

Swedish Proverb

43.

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

Chinese Proverb

44.

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

Russell, John

45.

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

Czech Proverb

46.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

47.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

48.

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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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

50.

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

Chinese Proverb