Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Japanese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Bacon, Francis

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

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

French Proverb

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

Sontag, Susan

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

Czech Proverb

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

Russell, John

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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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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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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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

German 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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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish 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

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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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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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian 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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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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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese 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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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

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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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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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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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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