Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Dutch Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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

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

Dutch Proverb

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.

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

10.

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

Chinese Proverb

11.

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

Sontag, Susan

12.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

13.

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

Jewish Proverb

14.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

15.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

Chinese Proverb

18.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

19.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

20.

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

Jewish Proverb

21.

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

22.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

23.

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

Russell, John

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

Bulgarian Proverb

25.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish 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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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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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

30.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

31.

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

Jewish Proverb

32.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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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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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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Complain to one who can help you.