Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

- Spanish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

African Proverb

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

10.

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

Belgian Proverb

11.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

12.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

13.

What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.

Jewish Proverb

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Spanish Proverb

17.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

18.

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

Jewish Proverb

19.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

20.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

21.

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

Dutch Proverb

22.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

23.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

24.

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

Joubert, Joseph

25.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

26.

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

Latin Proverb

27.

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

Keats, John

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

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

31.

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

Chinese Proverb

32.

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

Swedish Proverb

33.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

34.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

35.

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

Sontag, Susan

36.

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

Scottish Proverb

37.

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

Japanese Proverb

38.

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

Chinese Proverb

39.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

40.

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

Japanese Proverb

41.

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

Jewish Proverb

42.

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

Chinese Proverb

43.

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

Oriental Proverb

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Chinese Proverb

47.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

48.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

49.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.