Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Latin Proverb

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

Chinese Proverb

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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

African Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

10.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

11.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

12.

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

Chinese Proverb

13.

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

14.

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

18.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

19.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

20.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

21.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

22.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

24.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

25.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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

Scottish Proverb

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Spanish Proverb

35.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

German Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Japanese Proverb

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese 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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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

Swedish 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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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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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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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