Best Quotes about Proverbs
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian 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
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb
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
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb
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
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb
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
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Morley, John
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb
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