Good habits result from resisting temptation.
—Common Proverb
To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping
—Chinese Proverb
Too much luck is bad luck
—German Proverb
When walking, walk. When eating, eat.
—Zen Proverb Japanese School of Mahayana Buddhism
There are two perfectly good men: one dead, and the other unborn.
—Chinese Proverb
Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.
—Chinese Proverb
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
—Chinese Proverb
Give advice; if people don’t listen, let adversity teach them
—African Proverb
A smile will gain you ten more years of life.
—Chinese Proverb
To him who is determined it remains only to act.
—Italian Proverb
Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.
—Common Proverb
Necessity teaches all things
—German Proverb
A man should choose a friend who is better than himself. There are plenty of acquaintances in the world; but very few real friends.
—Chinese Proverb
I am of opinion that there are no proverbial sayings which are not true, because they are all sentences drawn from experience itself, who is the mother of all sciences.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
To listen well, is as powerful a means of influence as to talk well, and is as essential to all true conversation.
—Chinese Proverb
When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart.
—Russian Proverb
Envy eats nothing but its own heart.
—German Proverb
If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.
If you teach a man how to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
—Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie (1837–1919) English Novelist, Biographer
The one who understands does not speak; the one who speaks does not understand
—Chinese Proverb
Love is blind. That is why he always proceeds by the sense of touch.
—French Proverb
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.
—Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American Writer, Philosopher
Where vice is vengeance follows.
—Scottish Proverb
If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.
—Indian Proverb
A proverb is the child of experience.
—English Proverb
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
To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.
—Chinese Proverb
If you have to kill a snake, kill it once and for all
—Japanese Proverb
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all discussions, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to silence or vex, as to convince their opponents.
—John Wilkins (1614–72) English Anglican Clergyman, Author, Administrator
In a fiddler’s house all are dancers
—Common Proverb
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
—Zen Proverb Japanese School of Mahayana Buddhism
False friends are worse than bitter enemies.
—Scottish Proverb
Even in hunger, tigers do not eat grass.
—Indian Proverb
The house of danger is built upon the borders of safety
—Arabic Proverb
Every end is a new beginning
—Common Proverb
The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.
—Chinese Proverb
Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.
—Chinese Proverb
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
—George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
Before preparing to improve the world, first look around your own home three times.
—Chinese Proverb
Boast during the day; be humble at night.
—Maori Proverb
The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so. The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.
—Robert South (1634–1716) English Theologian, Preacher
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
—English Proverb
Make sure you have a different opinion and people will talk about you
—Arabic Proverb
The guilty catch themselves
—Common Proverb
Jewels five words long, that on the stretched forefinger of all time sparkle forever.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–92) British Poet
The horse is God’s gift to mankind.
—Arabic Proverb
Hypocrites kick with their hind feet while licking with their tongues
—Russian Proverb
It is a blessing in disguise
—Common Proverb
Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.
—French Proverb
Justifying a fault doubles it.
—French Proverb
The wounds of fire would have gone with the time but not the wounds caused by words
—Indian Proverb