Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

- Morley, John

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Russell, John

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

10.

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

11.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

12.

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

Swedish Proverb

13.

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

Malayan Proverb

14.

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

German Proverb

15.

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

Keats, John

16.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

17.

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

Jewish Proverb

18.

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

Latin Proverb

19.

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

20.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

21.

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

22.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

23.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

24.

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

Alger, William R.

25.

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

Japanese 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

27.

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

Swedish Proverb

28.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

29.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

30.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

31.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

32.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

33.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Scandinavian Proverb

34.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

35.

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

Czech 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

37.

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

Latin Proverb

38.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

39.

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

Jewish Proverb

40.

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

Jewish Proverb

41.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

42.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

43.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

44.

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

45.

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

Malayan Proverb

46.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

47.

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

48.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

50.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb