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The palest ink is better than the best memory.
- Chinese Proverb
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

2.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb

3.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

4.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

5.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

6.
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb

7.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb

8.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb

9.
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb

10.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

11.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

12.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

13.
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

14.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

15.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

16.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

17.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

18.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

19.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

20.
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb

21.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

22.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Morley, John

23.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

24.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb

25.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

26.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb

27.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

28.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

29.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

30.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

31.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

32.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb

33.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

34.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

35.
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

36.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

37.
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

38.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

39.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John

40.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

41.
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

42.
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

43.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

44.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

45.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

46.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

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

48.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb

49.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

50.
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb


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