Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

- Arab Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Carlyle, Thomas

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese 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

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

Malayan Proverb

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Chinese Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

Keats, John

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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

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

Oriental Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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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

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

Irish Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Alger, William R.

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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

German Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Russell, John

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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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

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Chinese 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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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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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

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.

Chinese Proverb

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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

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.