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Don't fall before you're pushed.
- English Proverb
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

2.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

3.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

4.
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

5.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

6.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

7.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb

8.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

9.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

10.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

11.
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

12.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

13.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

14.
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

15.
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

16.
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb

17.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

18.
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

19.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb

20.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

21.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

22.
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

23.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

24.
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

25.
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

26.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

27.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

28.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

29.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

30.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

31.
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.

32.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

33.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

34.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb

35.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John

36.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

37.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb

38.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb

39.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

40.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

41.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

42.
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

43.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

44.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

45.
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb

46.
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb

47.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

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

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

50.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb


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