There are two things over which you have complete dominion: authority and control of your mind and your mouth.
—African Proverb
Choose your company before you drink
—Common Proverb
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
It is impossible to overdo luxury
—French Proverb
Ask advice only of your equals.
—Danish Proverb
There is nothing that cannot be achieved by firm imagination.
—Japanese Proverb
Silence is medication for sorrow.
—Arabic Proverb
How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward.
—Common Proverb
Sense, brevity, and point are the elements of a good proverb.
—Tryon Edwards (1809–94) American Theologian, Author
Hypocrites kick with their hind feet while licking with their tongues
—Russian Proverb
The absent are always in the wrong
—English Proverb
Known is a drop, unknown is an Ocean
—Indian Proverb
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
—Common Proverb
The excess of virtue is a vice.
—Greek Proverb
Expensive medicines are always good: if not for the patient, at least for the druggist
—Russian Proverb
Fashion is a tyrant from which there is no deliverance; all must conform to its whimsical.
—French Proverb
Gold is tested by fire, man by gold
—Chinese Proverb
Trouble is to man what rust is to iron
—Yiddish Proverb
A good husband is healthy and absent.
—Japanese Proverb
The benefit of proverbs, or maxims, is that they separate those who act on principle from those who act on impulse; and they lead to promptness and decision in acting.—Their value depends on four things: do they embody correct principles; are they on important subjects; what is the extent, and what the ease of their application?
—Tryon Edwards (1809–94) American Theologian, Author
Bygone troubles are good to tell.
—Yiddish Proverb
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answers.
—William Penn (1644–1718) American Entrepreneur, Philosopher, Political Leader
He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.
—English Proverb
Before you love, Learn to run through the snow Leaving no footprint
—Turkish Proverb
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.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet
Luck is the idol of the idle.
—Common Proverb
Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
—French Proverb
He who sacrifices his conscience to ambition burns a picture to obtain the ashes.
—Chinese Proverb
The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.
—African Proverb
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