Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

- Japanese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek 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

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

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Japanese Proverb

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

French Proverb

11.

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

Jewish Proverb

12.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

13.

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

Chinese Proverb

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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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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

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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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

18.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

19.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

20.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

21.

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

22.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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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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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

26.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish 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

28.

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

Latin Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese 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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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

32.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese 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.