Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

The big thieves hang the little ones.

- Czech Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

2.

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

German Proverb

3.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

4.

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.

5.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

6.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

7.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

8.

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

9.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

10.

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

Latin Proverb

11.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

12.

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

Keats, John

13.

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

Jewish Proverb

14.

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

African Proverb

15.

Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.

Malayan Proverb

16.

Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.

Belgian Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

French Proverb

20.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

21.

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

22.

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

Swedish Proverb

23.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

28.

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

Spanish Proverb

29.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

30.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Huxley, Aldous

31.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

32.

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

Swedish Proverb

33.

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

Malayan Proverb

34.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

35.

A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

37.

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

Chinese Proverb

38.

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

Sontag, Susan

39.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.