Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

Baker, Nicholson

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

Dutch Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

African Proverb

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

Russell, John

10.

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

11.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

12.

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

13.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

14.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

15.

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

Sontag, Susan

16.

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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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

18.

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

German Proverb

19.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

20.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

21.

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

Spanish Proverb

22.

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

Malayan Proverb

23.

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

Alger, William R.

24.

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

Czech Proverb

25.

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

Spanish Proverb

26.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

27.

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

28.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

29.

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

French Proverb

30.

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

Malayan Proverb

31.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

32.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

33.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

34.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

35.

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

Bacon, Francis

36.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

37.

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

38.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

39.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Joubert, Joseph

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