Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Swedish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Jewish Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

11.

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

Jewish Proverb

12.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

13.

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

French 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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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

17.

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

Sontag, Susan

18.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

19.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

20.

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

Chinese Proverb

21.

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

African Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

Jewish Proverb

24.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

25.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

26.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

27.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Spanish Proverb

29.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

30.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

32.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

33.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

34.

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

Belgian Proverb

35.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

36.

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

Chinese Proverb

37.

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

Swedish Proverb

41.

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

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

Malayan Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Russell, John

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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