Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

- Japanese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Oriental Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Jewish Proverb

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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

French Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

13.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Huxley, Aldous

15.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

African Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

18.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

19.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Scottish Proverb

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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

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

Malayan Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Spanish Proverb

26.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

27.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

28.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

29.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Seneca

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

Spanish Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Chinese Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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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

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

Chinese Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

40.

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.

Swedish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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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

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

Czech Proverb

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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

45.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Sontag, Susan

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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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

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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb