Motivational Quotes

Proverbs

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

- Belgian Proverb

Best Quotes about Proverbs

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

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Proverb

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Spanish Proverb

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Italian Proverb

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

Japanese Proverb

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Chinese Proverb

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

Chinese Proverb

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

French Proverb

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

Japanese Proverb

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Praise youth and it will prosper.

Irish Proverb

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Buy on the rumor; sell on the news.

Wall Street Proverb

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First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.

Greek Proverb

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He who would leap high must take a long run.

Danish Proverb

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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

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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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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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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

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

Malayan Proverb

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A proverb is the child of experience.

Proverb, English

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

Arab Proverb

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

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

Latin Proverb

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

Bacon, Francis

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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

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

Jewish Proverb

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The big thieves hang the little ones.

Czech Proverb

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Do not employ handsome servants.

Chinese 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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Make your bargain before beginning to plow.

Arab Proverb

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

Morley, John

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

Jewish Proverb

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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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Don't fall before you're pushed.

English Proverb

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Keats, John

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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

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

Latin Proverb

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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

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A smiling face is half the meal.

Latvian Proverb

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Hold a true friend with both hands.

Nigerian Proverb

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Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.

Slovenian Proverb

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Worries go down better with soup than without.