Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

- Sontag, Susan

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

French 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

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Chinese 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

What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

11.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Chinese Proverb

12.

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

13.

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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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

18.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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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

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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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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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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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

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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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

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

28.

Never give a child a sword.

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

Chinese Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English 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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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

34.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

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

Jewish Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

42.

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

Latin Proverb

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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

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