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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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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
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

2.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

3.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb

4.
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

5.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

6.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

7.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

8.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb

9.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

10.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

11.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

12.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

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.

14.
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

15.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb

16.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

17.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

18.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

19.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

20.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

21.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

22.
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

23.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John

24.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

25.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

26.
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

27.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

28.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb

29.
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb

30.
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb

31.
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

32.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

33.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb

34.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

35.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

36.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

37.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb

38.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

39.
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

40.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

41.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

42.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

43.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb

44.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

45.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

46.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb

47.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb

48.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb

49.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb

50.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb


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