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

16.

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

Chinese Proverb

17.

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

Latin Proverb

18.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

19.

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

20.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

21.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

22.

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

Chinese Proverb

23.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

24.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

25.

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

Belgian Proverb

26.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

27.

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

Jewish Proverb

28.

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

Dutch Proverb

29.

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

Japanese Proverb

30.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

31.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

32.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

33.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Swedish Proverb

37.

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

Joubert, Joseph

38.

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

Scottish Proverb

39.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

40.

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

Malayan Proverb

41.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

42.

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

Oriental Proverb

43.

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

Japanese Proverb

44.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

45.

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

Keats, John

46.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish 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.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Bulgarian Proverb

49.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

50.

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

Scandinavian Proverb