Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

2.

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

Malayan Proverb

3.

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

4.

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

Bacon, Francis

5.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

6.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

7.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

8.

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

Chinese Proverb

9.

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

Chinese Proverb

10.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

11.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Scandinavian Proverb

12.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

13.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

14.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

15.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

16.

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

Chinese Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

Huxley, Aldous

19.

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

20.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

21.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

22.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

23.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

24.

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

Swedish Proverb

25.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

26.

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

Belgian Proverb

27.

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

Dutch Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

32.

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

Latin Proverb

33.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

34.

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

Czech Proverb

35.

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

Jewish Proverb

36.

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

37.

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

Sontag, Susan

38.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

39.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

42.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

43.

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

44.

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

African Proverb

45.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

46.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

47.

Hold a true friend with both hands.