Best Quotes about Proverbs
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John
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
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph
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
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
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb
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
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English 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
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish 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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Morley, John
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb
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