Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

- Japanese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

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

2.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

3.

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

Chinese Proverb

4.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

5.

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

Malayan Proverb

6.

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

Malayan Proverb

7.

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

8.

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

Russell, John

9.

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

African Proverb

10.

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

Alger, William R.

11.

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

Chinese Proverb

12.

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

Japanese Proverb

13.

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

Spanish Proverb

14.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

15.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

16.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

17.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

18.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

19.

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

20.

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

Keats, John

21.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

22.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

23.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

24.

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

Japanese Proverb

25.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

26.

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

Sontag, Susan

27.

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

Stevens, Wallace

28.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

29.

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.

Latin Proverb

30.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

31.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

32.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

33.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

German Proverb

36.

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

Huxley, Aldous

37.

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

38.

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

Swedish Proverb

39.

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

Jewish Proverb

40.

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

Latin Proverb

41.

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