If you’re looking for some wise sayings and quotes, dear reader, then here are 21 excellent proverbs from around the world guaranteed to make you think.
Proverbs hold the wisdom of the ancients. They are filled with the hard-bitten experience of people who’ve endured the toughest lives and yet have managed to find a way to live life regardless.
So, take a few moments to reflect on these wise sayings and quotes and see how many of them you can work into your day, as you offer the benefit of your experience to others.
And don’t forget, please feel free to share them.
Wise sayings and quotes:
- Luck helps the audacious. ~German Proverb
- Gold, when beaten, shines. ~Peruvian Proverb
- Smoke never rises without fire. ~Haitian Proverb
- A tree doesn’t fall with one blow. ~Yiddish Proverb
- Every truth is not good to be told. ~Italian Proverb
- Examine what is said, not who is speaking. ~African Proverb
- Money is a good servant, but a bad master. ~French Proverb
- Worry gives a small thing a great shadow. ~Swedish Proverb
- There is no King who is not gossiped about. ~African Proverb
- Better an honest enemy than a false friend. ~German Proverb
- Cast no dirt into the well that gives you water. ~Korean Proverb
- The moon does not care if the dog barks at it. ~Czech Proverb
- The goat’s business is not the sheep’s business. ~Haitian Proverb
- If there’s a way into the wood, there’s also a way out. ~Irish Proverb
- If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
- Don’t insult the alligator until you’ve crossed the river. ~Haitian Proverb
- You’ll never plough a field by turning it over in your mind. ~Irish Proverb
- When you shoot an arrow of truth, dip its point in honey. ~Saudi Proverb
- When you go to a donkey’s house, don’t talk about ears. ~Jamaican Proverb
- A new broom sweeps clean but an old broom knows the corners. ~Irish Proverb
- Better to have one thousand enemies outside the house, than one single enemy inside it. ~Lebanese Proverb
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