Top 846 Zen Proverb Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general.

Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb

Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, "Attention." "Yes, thank you," the student replied. "But can you tell me the second most important element?"And the roshi replied, "Attention."

I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Jared had his back to the wall, which Kami thought was a reflex when he was uncomfortable. She wanted to shield him. “He was doing some—Zen jogging,” she claimed. Jared flicked her an incredulous glance. “Yes,” he said slowly. “Zen jogging. I wasn’t wearing that many clothes because—that’s part of the process. You’re meant to commune with the elements. Normally, I wouldn’t have worn my jeans, but I put them on because I know the English are a modest people.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

The most important part of the practice is for the question to remain alive and for your whole body and mind to become a question. In Zen they say that you have to ask with the pores of your skin and the marrow of your bones. A Zen saying points out: Great questioning, great awakening; little questioning, little awakening; no questioning, no awakening.

The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the quality? Watchfully alert, joyously unmotivated, centered, loving, flowing, one walks. And the walking is sauntering. Loving, alert, watchful, one sits, unmotivated - not sitting for anything in particular, just enjoying how beautiful just sitting doing nothing is, how relaxing, how restful.

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.

We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.

Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious man has made all the religions. He has created all the philosophies, all the cultures, all the moralities; everything that exists around you is a creation of the serious man. Zen has dropped out of the serious world. It has created a world of its own which is very playful, full of laughter, where even great masters behave like children.

All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.

There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'

And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'

May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers.

For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!