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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb

2.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

3.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

4.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

5.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

6.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

7.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

8.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

9.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

10.
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb

11.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

12.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

13.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

14.
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

15.
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

16.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

17.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

18.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

19.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

20.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis

21.
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

22.
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

23.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

24.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

25.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

26.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

27.
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

28.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

29.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

30.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb

31.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

32.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb

33.
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb

34.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb

35.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

36.
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

37.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb

38.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

39.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

40.
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
Morely, John

41.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb

42.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb

43.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

44.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

45.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb

46.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb

47.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

48.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

49.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb

50.
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb


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