Best Quotes about Proverbs
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
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb
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
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Morley, John
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb
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
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.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb
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
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
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster
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
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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
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