Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

French Proverb

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Spanish Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese 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

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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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.

African Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish 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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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.

Czech Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

20.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

21.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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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

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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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It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.

Latin Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Russell, John

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

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

Swedish Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab 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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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

42.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Chinese 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

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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 country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Proverb

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous