Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Complain to one who can help you.

- Yugoslav Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Bacon, Francis

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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

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

Oriental Proverb

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Malayan Proverb

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

10.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

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

Alger, William R.

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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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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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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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

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

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

German Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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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

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

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

Swedish Proverb

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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

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

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

Dutch 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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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

Keats, John

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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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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Latin Proverb

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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

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

Chinese Proverb