Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

- Wall Street Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Joubert, Joseph

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian 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

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

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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

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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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

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

Chinese Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

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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

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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

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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

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Keats, John

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

Japanese Proverb

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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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

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

Latin Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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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