Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

- 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

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

Bacon, Francis

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

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

10.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

Latin Proverb

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He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.

Jewish Proverb

16.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

18.

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

Chinese Proverb

19.

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

Czech Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

22.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

23.

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

Dutch Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

25.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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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

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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