Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

- Arab Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

14.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

15.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

17.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

19.

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

Oriental Proverb

20.

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

Chinese Proverb

21.

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

Irish Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Proverb

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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

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He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Jewish Proverb

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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.

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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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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

30.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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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

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

34.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.