Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Swedish Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

1.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

Jewish Proverb

2.

Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

3.

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

4.

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

5.

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

Latin Proverb

6.

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

Malayan Proverb

7.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

8.

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

9.

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

Alger, William R.

10.

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

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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

Keats, John

12.

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

Irish Proverb

13.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

14.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

15.

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Japanese Proverb

16.

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

Jewish Proverb

17.

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

Chinese Proverb

18.

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

Dutch Proverb

19.

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

French Proverb

20.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

Chinese Proverb

21.

The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

22.

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

Spanish Proverb

23.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

24.

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

Belgian Proverb

25.

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

Huxley, Aldous

26.

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

Swedish Proverb

27.

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

28.

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

Jewish Proverb

29.

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

Chinese Proverb

30.

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

Scottish Proverb

31.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

32.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

33.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

34.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

35.

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

Spanish Proverb

36.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

37.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

38.

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

Scandinavian Proverb

39.

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

Jewish Proverb

40.

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Albanian Proverb

41.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

46.

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

Sontag, Susan

47.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

48.

Do not employ handsome servants.