Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

- Albanian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

10.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

11.

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

Spanish Proverb

12.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

13.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

14.

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

Latin Proverb

15.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

16.

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

Swedish Proverb

17.

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

Spanish Proverb

18.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

19.

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

Chinese Proverb

20.

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

21.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

22.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

23.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

24.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

25.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

26.

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

27.

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

Chinese Proverb

28.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

29.

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

Chinese Proverb

30.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

31.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

32.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

33.

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

34.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

35.

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

Jewish Proverb

36.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

37.

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

38.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

39.

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

Malayan Proverb

40.

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

German 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

42.

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

African Proverb

43.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

44.

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

Irish Proverb

45.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

46.

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

Czech Proverb

47.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

48.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

49.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

50.

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