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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.
Best Quotes about Proverbs
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English
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
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb
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
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
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De
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.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis
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
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese 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
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb
Keep five yards from a carriage, ten yards from a horse, and a hundred yards from an elephant; but the distance one should keep from a wicked man cannot be measured.
Indian Proverb
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb
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
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb
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