Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Proverbs

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish 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

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

Japanese Proverb

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

10.

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

Chinese Proverb

11.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

12.

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

13.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

14.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

15.

Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.

French Proverb

16.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

17.

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

Keats, John

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

Russell, John

20.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Jewish Proverb

21.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

22.

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

Malayan Proverb

23.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

24.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

25.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

26.

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

Dutch Proverb

27.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

28.

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

Malayan Proverb

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

32.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

33.

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

34.

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

Joubert, Joseph

35.

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

36.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

37.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

38.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

39.

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

Chinese Proverb

40.

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

Jewish Proverb

41.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

42.

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

Scottish Proverb

43.

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

Japanese Proverb

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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

45.

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

Huxley, Aldous

46.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

47.

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

Spanish Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.