Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Complain to one who can help you.

- Yugoslav Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Chinese Proverb

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish 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 scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

10.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

11.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

12.

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

Spanish Proverb

13.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

14.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

15.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

16.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

17.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

18.

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

Swedish Proverb

19.

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Proverb

20.

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

Latin Proverb

21.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

22.

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

Russell, John

24.

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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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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

Alger, William R.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

30.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

32.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

33.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

34.

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

Chinese Proverb

35.

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

German Proverb

36.

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

Japanese Proverb

37.

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

Keats, John

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

Huxley, Aldous

39.

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

Belgian Proverb

40.

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

Chinese Proverb

41.

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

42.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

43.

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

Sontag, Susan

44.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

45.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

46.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese 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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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

49.

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

Dutch 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