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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian Proverb
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

2.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

3.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

4.
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

5.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

6.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

7.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

8.
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

9.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

10.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

11.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb

12.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

13.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb

14.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

15.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

16.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

17.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb

18.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb

19.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

20.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

21.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

22.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb

23.
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

24.
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.

25.
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

26.
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

27.
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb

28.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Morley, John

29.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

30.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

31.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb

32.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb

33.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

34.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

35.
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

36.
Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.
Hardy, Thomas

37.
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb

38.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

39.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

40.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

41.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb

42.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

43.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

44.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

45.
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb

46.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

47.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

48.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

49.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

50.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb


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