Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

2.

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

3.

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

Joubert, Joseph

4.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

5.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

6.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

7.

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

Jewish Proverb

8.

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

French Proverb

9.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

12.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

13.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

14.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

15.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

16.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

17.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

18.

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

Chinese Proverb

19.

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

Bacon, Francis

20.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Latin Proverb

23.

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

24.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

25.

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

Japanese Proverb

26.

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

Spanish Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

Irish Proverb

29.

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

Malayan Proverb

30.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

31.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

32.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

33.

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

German Proverb

34.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

35.

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

Dutch Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Chinese Proverb

38.

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

Chinese Proverb

39.

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

Huxley, Aldous

40.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

41.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

42.

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

Jewish Proverb

43.

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

Swedish Proverb

44.

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

Spanish Proverb

45.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

46.

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

African Proverb

47.

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

48.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

49.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

50.

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

Sontag, Susan