Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Dutch Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

Bacon, Francis

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

13.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

14.

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

Spanish Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

18.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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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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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

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.

Sontag, Susan

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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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

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

Russell, John

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

30.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

33.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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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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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

French Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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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

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Irish Proverb

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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