Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Jewish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Oriental Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

10.

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

11.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

12.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

13.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

14.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

15.

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

16.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Russell, John

20.

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

Chinese Proverb

21.

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

22.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

23.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

24.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

25.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

26.

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

Irish Proverb

27.

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

Huxley, Aldous

28.

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

29.

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

French Proverb

30.

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

Spanish Proverb

31.

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

Malayan Proverb

32.

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

Alger, William R.

33.

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

Spanish Proverb

34.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

35.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

36.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

37.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

38.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

39.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

40.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

Japanese Proverb

42.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

43.

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

Sontag, Susan

44.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

45.

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good.

Florio, John

46.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

47.

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

Chinese Proverb

48.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

49.

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