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Worries go down better with soup than without.
- Jewish Proverb
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
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

2.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb

3.
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

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

6.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

7.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb

8.
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.

9.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

10.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John

11.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

12.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb

13.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

14.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

15.
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb

16.
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

17.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

18.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb

19.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

20.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John

21.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

22.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

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.
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

25.
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb

26.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

27.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

28.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

29.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

30.
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

31.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

32.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

33.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

34.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

35.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

36.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb

37.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

38.
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

39.
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

40.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

41.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

42.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

43.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

44.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

45.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

46.
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb

47.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis

48.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

49.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

50.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb


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