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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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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

2.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

3.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

4.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

5.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

6.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

7.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

8.
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb

9.
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

10.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

11.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

12.
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

13.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John

14.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

15.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

16.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

17.
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

18.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

19.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

20.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb

21.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

22.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb

23.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

24.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

25.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

26.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

27.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

28.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

29.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

30.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

31.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

32.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

33.
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.

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

35.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

36.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

37.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

38.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

39.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

40.
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

41.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

42.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

43.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

44.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

45.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

46.
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb

47.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

48.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

49.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

50.
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb


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