Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Bulgarian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Jewish Proverb

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Chinese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

Florio, John

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

African Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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

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

Keats, John

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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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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian 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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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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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.

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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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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Japanese Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Sontag, Susan

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

Scottish Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street 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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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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

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

German Proverb

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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

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Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

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

Chinese Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian 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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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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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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If you believe everything you read, better not read.