Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

- Spanish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

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 think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan 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

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.

Jewish Proverb

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Latin Proverb

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

Keats, John

10.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

11.

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

12.

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.

13.

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

Japanese Proverb

14.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

15.

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

Spanish Proverb

16.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

17.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

18.

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

Alger, William R.

19.

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

Spanish Proverb

20.

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

Dutch Proverb

21.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

22.

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

Jewish Proverb

23.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

24.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

25.

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

26.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

27.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

30.

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

German Proverb

31.

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

Japanese Proverb

32.

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

33.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

34.

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

Chinese Proverb

35.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

36.

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.

Czech Proverb

37.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

38.

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

Belgian Proverb

39.

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

Huxley, Aldous

40.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

41.

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

Latin Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

Russell, John

44.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

45.

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

African Proverb

46.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

47.

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

48.

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

Jewish Proverb

49.

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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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb