Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- French Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

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

2.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

3.

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

Spanish Proverb

4.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

5.

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

Irish Proverb

6.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

7.

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

Chinese Proverb

8.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Belgian Proverb

12.

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

Spanish Proverb

13.

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

African Proverb

14.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

15.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

16.

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.

17.

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

German Proverb

18.

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

Japanese Proverb

19.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

20.

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

Latin Proverb

21.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

22.

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

Japanese Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Latin Proverb

25.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

26.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

27.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

28.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

31.

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

Florio, John

32.

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

Chinese Proverb

33.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

34.

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

35.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

Chinese Proverb

36.

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

Oriental Proverb

37.

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

French Proverb

38.

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

Scottish Proverb

39.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

40.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

41.

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

Russell, John

42.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

43.

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

44.

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

Dutch Proverb

45.

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

Jewish Proverb

46.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

47.

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