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

19.

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

Chinese Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

22.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

23.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

24.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Stevens, Wallace

27.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

28.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

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

Chinese Proverb

30.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

31.

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

32.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

33.

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

Chinese Proverb

34.

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

35.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

36.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

37.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

38.

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

French Proverb

39.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

40.

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

Swedish Proverb

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

44.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

45.

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

Jewish Proverb

46.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.