"Try not with words the talker to outdo; On all is speech bestowed: good sense on few. (10) Love others so that thou'rt to self a friend; Prefer the good and thus dire harm forfend. (11) On others' promise do not base thine own; Talk doth abound: good faith is rarely shown. (13)"

"Let not despair o'er ill thy courage take; Not e'en at death doth hope a man forsake. (25) Observe what's past and what may next ensue And Janus-like keep both ways under view. (27) Disdain not, arrogant, what most advise; Thou none canst please while thou dost all despise. (29) Guard well thy health with special care and skill; Thyself and not the seasons blame when ill. (30)"

"If wealth abounds, when life draws near its end, Be not a stingy, but a generous friend. (9) If from thy wealth and place thou dost descend, Still be content with what the seasons send. (11) For dowry take not to thyself a wife. Nor keep her with thee if she spoils thy life.(12) From others' actions seek to find the clue To what thou best mayst shun and best mayst do. (13) Speak out when wrong thou knowest hath been done, Lest thou thro' silence urge the culprit on. (15)"

"Deo supplica. Parentes ama. Cognatos cole."

"Libros lege. Quae legeris memento. Liberos erudi."

"Alienum noli concupiscere."

"Stultitiam simulare loco, prudentia summa est."

"He knew nat Catoun, for his wit was rude, That bad man sholde wedde his similitude."

"When I noticed how very many go seriously wrong in their manner of living I concluded that I must apply a corrective to their belief and take counsel of the experience of mankind in order that they may live most gloriously and attain honor. Now I will teach thee, dearest son, in what way thou mayest fashion a rule for thy life. Therefore, so read my precepts that thou mayest understand them, for to read and not to understand is equivalent to not reading."

"Much matter decocted into few words."

"Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions."

"As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn, With proverbs thus each other entertain: "In love there is no lack," thus I begin; "Fair words make fools," replieth he again; "Who spares to speak doth spare to speed," quoth I; "As well," saith he, "too forward as too slow"; "Fortune assists the boldest," I reply; "A hasty man," quoth he, "ne'er wanted woe"; "Labour is light where love," quoth I," doth pay"; Saith he, "Light burden's heavy, if far borne"; Quoth I, "The main lost, cast the by away"; "Y'have spun a fair thread," he replies in scorn. And having thus awhile each other thwarted Fools as we met, so fools again we parted."

"The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs."

"Know thyself.—Solon. Consider the end.—Chilo. Know thy opportunity.—Pittacus. Most men are bad.—Bias. Nothing is impossible to industry.—Periander. Avoid excess.—Cleobulus. Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.—Thales."

"I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth, Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth, The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best"; The Spartan Chilo, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase confessed. Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command," "Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand; Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life," And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife"; Milesian Thales urged that "None should e'er a surety be"; Few were their words, but if you look, you'll much in little see."

"Scoundrel maxim."

"I can tell thee where that saying was born."

"Proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."

"[A proverb is] one man's wit, and all men's wisdom."

"The supposed wisdom of proverbs is mainly imaginary. As a rule, proverbs go in pairs which say opposite things. The opposite of 'More haste, less speed' is 'A stitch in time saves nine.' The opposite of 'Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves,' 'Penny wise, pound foolish.' The opposite of 'Two heads are better than one,' is 'Too many cooks spoil the broth.' And so on. The great advantage of a proverb in argument is that it is supposed to be incontrovertible, as embodying the quintessential sagacity of our ancestors. But when once you have realised that proverbs go in pairs which say opposite things you can never again be downed by a proverb; you merely quote the opposite."

"Problems or successes, they all are the results of our own actions. Karma. The philosophy of action is that no one else is the giver of peace or happiness. One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever... As you sow, so shall you reap. It's a very old proverb of mankind... What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever."

"A proverb and a byword among all people."

"This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs, And speak men what they can to him he'll answer With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying, Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use."

"Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."

"Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked."

"The Devil is the enemy of proverbs ("Der Teuffel ist den Sprichwortten feindt")."

"Les maximes des hommes décèlent leur cœur."

"They say that love flies out the window when poverty comes in the door, but people generally get the sense backwards. It doesn’t mean that when a man’s money runs out he’s shaken off by women. When he runs out of money, he naturally is in the dumps. He’s no good for anything. The strength goes out of his laugh, he becomes strangely soured. Finally, in desperation, he shakes off the woman."

"The wise man learns from the mistakes of others, the fool must learn from his own."

"No hay refran que no sea verdadero."

"Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience."

"All the world over, proverbs run in pairs, and pull both ways: for the most part one neutralizes, by contradiction, the other."

"When a poor man eats a chicken, one of them is sick."

"Any home not built for hot days or rains is not a home."

"Whoever argues for the sake of argument is a boor."

"Whoever seeks cake loses his bread."

"Don't boast of tomorrow, for you know not what a day will bring."

"I do not want a shoe larger than my foot."

"In old men there is no taste, in young no insight."

"Youth is a crown of roses, old age a crown of willows."

"Who is wise? He who learns from all men -Ben Zoma"

"Love work, loath mastery over others, and avoid intimacy with the government. -Shmaayah"

"Let your home be a meeting place for the wise; dust yourself in the soil of their feet, and drink thirstily of their words. -Yossei ben Yoezer"