Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Malayan Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Russell, John

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

Dutch 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

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

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

Keats, John

A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

10.

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

11.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

12.

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.

13.

A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

14.

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

Chinese Proverb

15.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

16.

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

Spanish Proverb

17.

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

Belgian Proverb

18.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

19.

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

Sontag, Susan

20.

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

Malayan Proverb

21.

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

Spanish Proverb

22.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

Seneca

23.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

24.

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

Scottish Proverb

25.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

26.

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

Oriental Proverb

27.

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

28.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

29.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

30.

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

Malayan Proverb

31.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

32.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

33.

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

34.

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

Japanese Proverb

35.

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

Chinese Proverb

36.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

37.

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

Japanese Proverb

38.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

39.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

40.

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

Jewish Proverb

41.

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

Latin Proverb

42.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

43.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

44.

Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

45.

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

Chinese Proverb

46.

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

Jewish Proverb

47.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Jewish Proverb