Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

- Japanese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Sontag, Susan

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.

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

Spanish Proverb

12.

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

African Proverb

13.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

14.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

15.

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

Spanish Proverb

16.

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

Japanese Proverb

17.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

18.

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

German Proverb

19.

Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Swedish Proverb

20.

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Japanese 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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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

24.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

25.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech 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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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

28.

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

Jewish Proverb

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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.

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

French Proverb

32.

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

Dutch Proverb

33.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

34.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

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

Chinese Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

39.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

40.

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

Chinese Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

42.

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

Irish Proverb

43.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

45.

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

Malayan Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

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

Chinese Proverb