Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

- Japanese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

2.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

3.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

4.

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

5.

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

Spanish Proverb

6.

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

Swedish Proverb

7.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

8.

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

9.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

12.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

13.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

14.

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

Malayan Proverb

15.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

18.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

19.

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

German Proverb

20.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

21.

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

Irish Proverb

22.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

24.

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.

25.

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

French Proverb

26.

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

Chinese Proverb

27.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

28.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

29.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

30.

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

Japanese Proverb

31.

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

Chinese Proverb

32.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

33.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

34.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

35.

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

Spanish Proverb

36.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

37.

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

Belgian Proverb

38.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

39.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

40.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

41.

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

Chinese Proverb

42.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

43.

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

Jewish Proverb

44.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

45.

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

Bacon, Francis

46.

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

Keats, John

47.

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

Japanese Proverb

48.

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

49.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

50.

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