Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

- Kurdish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Spanish Proverb

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

Scandinavian Proverb

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Bacon, Francis

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

Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

German Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Dutch Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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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

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

Chinese Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

16.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

17.

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

African Proverb

18.

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

Scottish Proverb

19.

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

Sontag, Susan

20.

Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese Proverb

21.

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

Chinese Proverb

22.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

Swedish Proverb

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To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

25.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

28.

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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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

30.

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

Czech Proverb

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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

32.

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

Japanese Proverb

33.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

34.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish 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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If you believe everything you read, better not read.

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

Belgian Proverb

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

Keats, John

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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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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One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

44.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

45.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish 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

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

Chinese Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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

Latin Proverb