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

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

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

African Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

10.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

11.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

Irish Proverb

14.

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

German Proverb

15.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

16.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

17.

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

Spanish Proverb

18.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

19.

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.

20.

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

Scottish Proverb

21.

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

Chinese Proverb

22.

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

23.

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

Oriental Proverb

24.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

25.

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

Malayan Proverb

26.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

27.

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

Jewish Proverb

28.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

30.

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

Japanese Proverb

31.

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

Latin Proverb

32.

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

Jewish Proverb

33.

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

Sontag, Susan

34.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Keats, John

37.

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

Chinese Proverb

38.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

39.

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

40.

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

Swedish Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

French Proverb

43.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

44.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

45.

A smiling face is half the meal.