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Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
- Chinese Proverb
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
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

2.
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb

3.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

4.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

5.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

6.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

7.
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb

8.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

9.
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb

10.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis

11.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb

12.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb

13.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb

14.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb

15.
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

16.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

17.
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.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

19.
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

20.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

21.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

22.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

23.
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

24.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

25.
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb

26.
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb

27.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

28.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

29.
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

30.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

31.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

32.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

33.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

34.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

35.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

36.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb

37.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

38.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

39.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

40.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb

41.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb

42.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb

43.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

44.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

45.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Fuller, R. Buckminster

46.
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

47.
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

48.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

49.
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb

50.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb


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