Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

- Arab Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

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

Spanish Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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

Jewish 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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Swedish Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan 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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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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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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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Scottish Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese 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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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Dutch Proverb

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish 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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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian 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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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German 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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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Sontag, Susan

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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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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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