Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Worries go down better with soup than without.

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Jewish Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Russell, John

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

12.

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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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian 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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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jewish Proverb

18.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

19.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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

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

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

25.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

26.

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

Chinese Proverb

27.

If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.

Oriental Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

29.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

33.

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

Sontag, Susan

34.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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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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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

German Proverb

38.

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

French Proverb

39.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Keats, John

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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

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

Swedish Proverb

44.

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

45.

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

Spanish Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.

Czech Proverb

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