Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

- Chinese Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Scandinavian Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

If you bow at all, bow low.

Chinese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

Japanese proverb

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

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

Jewish Proverb

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

Bulgarian Proverb

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

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Spanish 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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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

13.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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The best armor is to keep out of range.

Italian Proverb

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

Alger, William R.

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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

18.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

19.

The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

20.

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

Chinese Proverb

21.

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

French Proverb

22.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

23.

Who begins too much accomplishes little.

German Proverb

24.

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

Jewish Proverb

25.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

Chinese Proverb

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Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

Spanish Proverb

27.

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese Proverb

28.

Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

29.

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

African Proverb

30.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

Latin Proverb

32.

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

Oriental Proverb

33.

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

German Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Irish Proverb

38.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Italian Proverb

39.

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

Dutch 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

42.

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

Czech Proverb

43.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

44.

Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.

Jewish Proverb

45.

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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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.