Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Jewish Proverb

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

German Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

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

13.

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

Belgian Proverb

14.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

18.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Keats, John

20.

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

21.

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

Irish Proverb

22.

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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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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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

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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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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

30.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

33.

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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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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

Russell, John

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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

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

Jewish 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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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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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

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb