Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

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

2.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Swedish Proverb

6.

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

7.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

8.

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

German Proverb

9.

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

Russell, John

10.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

11.

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

Sontag, Susan

12.

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

Keats, John

13.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

14.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

15.

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

Czech Proverb

16.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

17.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

18.

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

Scottish Proverb

19.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

20.

No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.

Dahlberg, Edward

21.

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

Belgian Proverb

22.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

23.

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

Japanese Proverb

24.

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

Chinese Proverb

25.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

26.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

27.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

28.

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

29.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin Proverb

30.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

31.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

32.

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

Japanese Proverb

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

34.

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

Spanish Proverb

35.

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

Huxley, Aldous

36.

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

Chinese Proverb

37.

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

French Proverb

38.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

39.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

40.

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

Joubert, Joseph

41.

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

42.

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

Chinese Proverb

43.

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

Irish Proverb

44.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

45.

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