Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

2.

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

3.

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

4.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

5.

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

African Proverb

6.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

7.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

8.

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

Japanese Proverb

9.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

10.

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Oriental Proverb

11.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

12.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

13.

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

Sontag, Susan

14.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

15.

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

Czech Proverb

16.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

17.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

18.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

19.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

20.

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

Irish Proverb

21.

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

Spanish Proverb

22.

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

23.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

24.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

25.

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

26.

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

Jewish Proverb

27.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

28.

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

Belgian Proverb

29.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

30.

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

Chinese Proverb

31.

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

Chinese Proverb

32.

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

Huxley, Aldous

33.

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

34.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

35.

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

Keats, John

36.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

37.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

38.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

39.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

40.

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

French Proverb

41.

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

42.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

43.

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

Chinese Proverb

44.

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

Jewish Proverb

45.

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