Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

- Slovenian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian 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

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

Belgian Proverb

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

French Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Russell, John

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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

12.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

13.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

Chinese Proverb

16.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

18.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

19.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

20.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

22.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

26.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

28.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

29.

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

Spanish Proverb

30.

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

Spanish Proverb

31.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

33.

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

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

Malayan Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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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

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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

41.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

42.

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

Spanish Proverb

43.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

44.

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

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Keats, John

47.

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

Latin Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.