Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Belgian Proverb

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

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

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

Oriental Proverb

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

10.

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

Jewish Proverb

11.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Cervantes, Miguel De

12.

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

Japanese Proverb

13.

A full cup must be carried steadily.

English Proverb

14.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

15.

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

Spanish Proverb

16.

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

Malayan Proverb

17.

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

Bulgarian Proverb

18.

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

Japanese Proverb

19.

The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

20.

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

21.

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

22.

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

Huxley, Aldous

23.

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

Chinese Proverb

24.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

25.

He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

26.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

27.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

28.

Never give a child a sword.

Latin Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

Irish Proverb

31.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

32.

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

33.

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

34.

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

African Proverb

35.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

36.

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

Malayan Proverb

37.

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

38.

Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

39.

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

40.

Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.

Kurdish Proverb

41.

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

Latin Proverb

42.

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

Scottish Proverb

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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

44.

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

French Proverb

45.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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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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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.