Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

The best armor is to keep out of range.

- Italian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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

Jewish Proverb

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Czech 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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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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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

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

Chinese Proverb

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

French Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.

Chinese 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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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Jewish Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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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

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

Swedish Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

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

Oriental 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

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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

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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