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.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

2.

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

3.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

4.

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

Swedish Proverb

5.

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

Swedish Proverb

6.

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

7.

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

Chinese Proverb

8.

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

Dutch Proverb

9.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

10.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

11.

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

Scottish Proverb

12.

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

Japanese Proverb

13.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

14.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

15.

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

Keats, John

16.

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

Jewish Proverb

17.

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

18.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

19.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

20.

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

Alger, William R.

21.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

22.

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

African Proverb

23.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

24.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

25.

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

Huxley, Aldous

26.

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

27.

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

Belgian Proverb

28.

Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.

Malayan Proverb

29.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

30.

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

31.

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

Russell, John

32.

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

33.

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

Jewish Proverb

34.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

35.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

36.

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

Malayan Proverb

37.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

38.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

39.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

40.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

41.

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

42.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

43.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

44.

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

45.

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

Chinese Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

Latin Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

Spanish Proverb

50.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb