Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- German Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Alger, William R.

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

African Proverb

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

10.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

11.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

12.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

13.

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

Swedish Proverb

14.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

15.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

16.

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

Jewish Proverb

17.

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

Chinese Proverb

18.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

19.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Chinese Proverb

23.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

24.

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

Sontag, Susan

25.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

26.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

27.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

28.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

29.

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

Russell, John

30.

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

Japanese Proverb

31.

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

Chinese Proverb

32.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

33.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Huxley, Aldous

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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.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

40.

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

Scottish Proverb

41.

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

Jewish Proverb

42.

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

44.

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

Keats, John

45.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

46.

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

French Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

48.

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

German Proverb

50.

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

Japanese Proverb