Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Scandinavian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bulgarian Proverb

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

Scottish Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Oriental Proverb

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When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

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

Chinese 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

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

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

Bacon, Francis

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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

Malayan Proverb

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Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Russell, John

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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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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

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

Jewish Proverb

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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish 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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Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

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

Dutch Proverb

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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Alger, William R.

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