Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Praise youth and it will prosper.

- Irish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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

Scandinavian Proverb

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

10.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

11.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

12.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

13.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

14.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

16.

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

Jewish Proverb

17.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Dutch Proverb

19.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Alger, William R.

20.

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

21.

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

Czech Proverb

22.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Bulgarian Proverb

26.

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

Swedish Proverb

27.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

29.

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

Japanese Proverb

30.

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.

Swedish Proverb

31.

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

32.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

33.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

34.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

35.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Russell, John

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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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

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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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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

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

42.

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

Chinese Proverb

43.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

44.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

45.

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

Belgian Proverb

46.

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

French Proverb

47.

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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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.

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb