You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.
Irish Proverb
Praise youth and it will prosper.
Irish Proverb
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Spanish Proverb
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Chinese Proverb
A full cup must be carried steadily.
English Proverb
Don't fall before you're pushed.
English Proverb
A handful of patience is worth more than a bushel of brains.
Dutch Proverb
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Chinese Proverb
Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb
The palest ink is better than the best memory.
Chinese Proverb
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Chinese Proverb
When you drink the water, remember the spring.
Chinese Proverb
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
Chinese Proverb
Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.
Spanish Proverb
Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.
Chinese Proverb
If you bow at all, bow low.
Chinese Proverb
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
Do not employ handsome servants.
Chinese Proverb
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish 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
Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.
Spanish Proverb
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Chinese Proverb
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb
Who begins too much accomplishes little.
German Proverb
If you believe everything you read, better not read.
Japanese Proverb
Make sure to be in with your equals if you're going to fall out with your superiors.
Jewish Proverb
Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
Arab Proverb
Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
Malayan Proverb
Examine what is said, not him who speaks.
Arab Proverb
May you never forget what is worth remembering, nor ever remember what is best forgotten.
Irish Blessings
Don't make use of another's mouth unless it has been lent to you.
Belgian Proverb
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
Japanese Proverb
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Italian Proverb
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
African Proverb
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
Slovenian Proverb
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
The best armor is to keep out of range.
Italian Proverb
He who would leap high must take a long run.
Danish Proverb
Ask about your neighbors, then buy the house.
Jewish Proverb
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Japanese Proverb
The big thieves hang the little ones.
Czech Proverb
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Scandinavian Proverb
Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.
African American Proverb
If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.
Latin Proverb
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
Jewish Proverb
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Bulgarian Proverb
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
Scottish Proverb
He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb
Hold a true friend with both hands.
Nigerian Proverb
Never give a child a sword.
Latin Proverb
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Jewish Proverb
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese Proverb
Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
Kurdish Proverb
What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth.
Jewish Proverb
If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority.
Yugoslav Proverb
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Italian Proverb
Don't let your sorrow come higher than your knees.
Swedish Proverb
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish Proverb
A smiling face is half the meal.
Latvian Proverb
Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.
Japanese Proverb
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months.
Japanese Proverb
Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.
French Proverb
Trumpet in a herd of elephants; crow in the company of cocks; bleat in a flock of goats.
Malayan Proverb
When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
Albanian Proverb
When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.
Czech Proverb
It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it.
Latin Proverb
Make your bargain before beginning to plow.
Arab Proverb
If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other people.
Oriental Proverb
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
William R. Alger
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Isaac Disraeli
I looked down at my key ring, and she had attached the Proverbs 31 heart bauble from her purse.
Mike Summers
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
Leo Rosten
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
James Howell
As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.
William Blake
All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
William Mathews
Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
W. Lee Grant
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
L. M. Montgomery
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