Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Worries go down better with soup than without.

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

Jewish Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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.

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

Scottish Proverb

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

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

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

Keats, John

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

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

French Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian 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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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

German Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.

Dutch Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav 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

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

Russell, John

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

Bacon, Francis

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.