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.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

2.

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

Spanish Proverb

3.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

4.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

5.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

6.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

7.

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

Latin Proverb

8.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

9.

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

Belgian Proverb

10.

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

Chinese Proverb

11.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

Spanish Proverb

12.

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

Malayan Proverb

13.

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

Jewish Proverb

14.

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

Jewish Proverb

15.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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.

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

Jewish Proverb

18.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

19.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

20.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

21.

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

Latin Proverb

22.

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

23.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

24.

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

Chinese Proverb

25.

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

Chinese Proverb

26.

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

Japanese Proverb

27.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

28.

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

Swedish Proverb

29.

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

30.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

31.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

32.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

33.

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

Jewish Proverb

34.

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

35.

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

Dutch Proverb

36.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

37.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

38.

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

Malayan Proverb

39.

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

German Proverb

40.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

41.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

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

Spanish Proverb

44.

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

45.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

46.

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

Keats, John

47.

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

48.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

49.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

50.

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

Joubert, Joseph