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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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Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb

2.
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

3.
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb

4.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb

5.
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb

6.
A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverb, English

7.
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb

8.
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb

9.
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb

10.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb

11.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb

12.
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Bacon, Francis

13.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Morley, John

14.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous

15.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb

16.
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

17.
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

18.
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.

19.
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

20.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb

21.
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joubert, Joseph

22.
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

23.
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb

24.
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

25.
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb

26.
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb

27.
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb

28.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb

29.
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

30.
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb

31.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John

32.
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb

33.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb

34.
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb

35.
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb

36.
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb

37.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan

38.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb

39.
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb

40.
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb

41.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb

42.
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Keats, John

43.
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb

44.
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas

45.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De

46.
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb

47.
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb

48.
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb

49.
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb

50.
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb


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