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Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
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A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch 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
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverb
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas
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
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
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De
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
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb
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
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.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb
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
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish 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 bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.
Wall Street Proverb
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb
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
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb
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
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb
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