Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark.
—American Indian Proverb
To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.
—American Indian Proverb
There are many good moccasin tracks along the trail of a straight arrow.
—American Indian Proverb
Talk to your children while they are eating;
what you say will stay even after you are gone.
—American Indian Proverb
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.
—John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838–1923) British Writer, Journalist, Political Leader, Editor
There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-born American Novelist
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
—John Vance Cheney (1848–1922) American Poet, Essayist, Librarian
Do not judge your neighbor until you walk two moons in his moccasins.
—American Indian Proverb
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British Novelist, Short-Story Writer, Playwright
The weakness of the enemy makes our strength.
—American Indian Proverb
The greatest strength is gentleness.
—American Indian Proverb
When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps.
—American Indian Proverb
Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are going to fall into the river.
—American Indian Proverb
A starving man will eat with the wolf.
—American Indian Proverb
Show respect for all men, but grovel to none.
—American Indian Proverb
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
I have been to the end of the earth,
I have been to the end of the waters,
I have been to the end of the sky,
I have been to the end of the mountains,
I have found none that are not my friends.
—American Indian Proverb
All dreams spin out from the same web.
—American Indian Proverb
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
—American Indian Proverb
The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.
—American Indian Proverb
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine Writer, Essayist, Poet
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
—Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist
Wisdom comes only when you stop looking for it and start living the life the Creator intended for you.
—American Indian Proverb
Epigrams succeed where epics fail.
—Persian Proverb
A people without a history is like the wind over buffalo grass.
—American Indian Proverb
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.
—American Indian Proverb
There is nothing as eloquent as a rattlesnakes tail.
—American Indian Proverb
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young.
—American Indian Proverb
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.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician
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