Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

- Wall Street Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

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

Belgian Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

Scandinavian Proverb

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian 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

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

Chinese Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

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

Chinese Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

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

German 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 short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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

Keats, John

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

Latin Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.

French Proverb

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

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

Jewish Proverb

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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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