Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Spanish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Chinese Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Sontag, Susan

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

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

Jewish Proverb

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

10.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

11.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

12.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

African Proverb

13.

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

Belgian Proverb

14.

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

Russell, John

15.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

16.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

17.

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

Latin Proverb

18.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

19.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

20.

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

Swedish Proverb

21.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

22.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

23.

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 throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.

Swedish Proverb

25.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

26.

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

Malayan Proverb

27.

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

Chinese Proverb

28.

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

29.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

30.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish 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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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.