Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

The best armor is to keep out of range.

- Italian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Latin Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Alger, William R.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

11.

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

Jewish Proverb

12.

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

Belgian Proverb

13.

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

Sontag, Susan

14.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

15.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

16.

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

Chinese Proverb

17.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

18.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

19.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

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

Malayan Proverb

24.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

25.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

26.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

27.

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

Chinese Proverb

28.

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

Jewish Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

31.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

32.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

33.

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

Japanese Proverb

34.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

35.

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

Dutch Proverb

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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

37.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

38.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

39.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

40.

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

Scandinavian 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

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

43.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

44.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

45.

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

Chinese Proverb

46.

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

47.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

48.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

49.

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

Swedish Proverb

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