Best Quotes about Proverbs
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
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab 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
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
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb
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.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek 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
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph
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
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
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish 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
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
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb
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