Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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

Czech Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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

11.

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

Joubert, Joseph

12.

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

Jewish Proverb

14.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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

Belgian 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

17.

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

Malayan Proverb

18.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

19.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

20.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

21.

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

Chinese Proverb

22.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

23.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

24.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

25.

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

German Proverb

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Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

27.

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

28.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Russell, John

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

33.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

34.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

35.

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

Jewish Proverb

36.

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

Chinese Proverb

37.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

38.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

39.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

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

Latin Proverb

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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

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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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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

44.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

45.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

48.

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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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Alger, William R.