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

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

Oriental Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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

German 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

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

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

10.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

11.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

12.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

13.

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

Scottish Proverb

14.

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

Alger, William R.

15.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

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

Japanese Proverb

17.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

18.

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

Swedish Proverb

19.

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

Japanese Proverb

20.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

21.

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.

22.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

26.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

27.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

28.

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

French Proverb

29.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

30.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

31.

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

Swedish Proverb

32.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

33.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

34.

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

Jewish Proverb

35.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

36.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

37.

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

Bacon, Francis

38.

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

Irish Proverb

39.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

40.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

41.

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

Sontag, Susan

42.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

43.

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

Malayan Proverb

44.

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

Huxley, Aldous

45.

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

Malayan Proverb

46.

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

Chinese Proverb

47.

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.

Belgian Proverb

48.

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

49.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

50.

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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