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Proverbs

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

- Fuller, R. Buckminster

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Chinese Proverb

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

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

Swedish Proverb

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

African Proverb

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

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

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 country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

German Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

12.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

13.

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

Scottish Proverb

14.

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

Spanish 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 smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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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

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

Swedish Proverb

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

21.

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

Latin Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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

Chinese 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

25.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

26.

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

Chinese Proverb

27.

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

Spanish Proverb

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A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Russell, John

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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

30.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav 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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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

37.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

40.

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

Czech Proverb

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When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

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

Japanese 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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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese 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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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Spanish 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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