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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
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

2.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

3.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

4.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

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

6.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

7.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

8.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb

9.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

10.
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.

11.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

12.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

13.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis

14.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

15.
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

16.
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

17.
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb

18.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb

19.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb

20.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John

21.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb

22.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

23.
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

24.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

25.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

26.
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

27.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

28.
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

29.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

30.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

31.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb

32.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

33.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb

34.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

35.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

36.
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

37.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb

38.
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

39.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

40.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

41.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

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

43.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb

44.
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

45.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

46.
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

47.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

48.
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb

49.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John

50.
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb


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