Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

- Italian 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

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

Latin Proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Russell, John

11.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

12.

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

Belgian Proverb

13.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

15.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

17.

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

Spanish Proverb

18.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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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

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

25.

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.

Czech Proverb

26.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

29.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

30.

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

Latin Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

32.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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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

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jewish Proverb

36.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese 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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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Sontag, Susan

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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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

43.

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

African Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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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