Motivational Quotes
Proverbs
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Best Quotes about Proverbs
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb
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
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Russell, John
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
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
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
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb
How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
Sontag, Susan
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Carlyle, Thomas
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb
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
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Cervantes, Miguel De
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
Alger, William R.
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Morley, John
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Huxley, Aldous
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb
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
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese proverb
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb
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