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.

22.

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

Latin Proverb

23.

Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.

Swedish Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

26.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

Chinese Proverb

29.

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

Chinese Proverb

30.

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

Jewish Proverb

31.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

32.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

33.

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

Jewish Proverb

34.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

35.

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

36.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

37.

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

38.

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

39.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

40.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

41.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

42.

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

Malayan Proverb

43.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Carlyle, Thomas

44.

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

African Proverb

45.

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

Irish Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Belgian Proverb

49.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

50.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster