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Who begins too much accomplishes little.
- German Proverb
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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb

2.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb

3.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

4.
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

5.
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb

6.
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb

7.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

8.
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb

9.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

10.
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb

11.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

12.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

13.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

14.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

15.
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

16.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

17.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb

18.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

19.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

20.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

21.
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

22.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

23.
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street 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.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis

26.
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb

27.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

28.
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb

29.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb

30.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

31.
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb

32.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

33.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb

34.
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

35.
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb

36.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

37.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.

38.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

39.
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

40.
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb

41.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

42.
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

43.
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb

44.
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.

45.
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

46.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb

47.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb

48.
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb

49.
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

50.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb


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