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The best armor is to keep out of range.
- Italian Proverb
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb

2.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

3.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

4.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

5.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

6.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb

7.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

8.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

9.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

10.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

11.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

12.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis

13.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb

14.
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

15.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

16.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

17.
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

18.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

19.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

20.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

21.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

22.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

23.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

24.
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb

25.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

26.
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb

27.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

28.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

29.
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb

30.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

31.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

32.
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb

33.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

34.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John

35.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb

36.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

37.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

38.
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb

39.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb

40.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb

41.
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

42.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

43.
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

44.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb

45.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

46.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

47.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Morley, John

48.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

49.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

50.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb


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