Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

- Slovenian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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

French Proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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

German Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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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

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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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

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Dutch Proverb

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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

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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

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Huxley, Aldous

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

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

Chinese Proverb

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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.

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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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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Russell, John

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese 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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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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Worries go down better with soup than without.

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

Scottish Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Irish Proverb

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

Scandinavian 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

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Belgian Proverb

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