“My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is?” — C. Fern Cook Copy Share Image
Help your brothers boat across, and your own will reach the shore. ~Hindu Proverb — Hindu Proveb Copy Share Image
is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'? — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back! — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“As swords were designed to kill They did well to make them tongue-shaped. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Proverb goes, change takes time; I say, time takes change, for without change there is no time.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Some of us were brought into this troubled world primarily or only to increase our fathers’ chances of not being left by… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
A Great Proverb Which Will Really Make You Think. 'Day by Day Nothing Changes... But When You Look Back Everything Is Different.' — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
“If you are penniless you will have a thousand dreams. Get even a single piece of money, however, and you will have… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“The river never drinks its own water. The tree never tastes its own fruit. The field never consumes its own harvest. They… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
“Many if not most slaves would have each readily jumped, and many if not most slaves would each readily jump, at the… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever… — William Wallace Copy Share Image
“Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no longer love,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a… — John Florio Copy Share Image
“My definition of Theology My proverb of theology is a doctrine study of overall foundation of biblical notions, transcendence, an scriptures relativist,… — John Shelton Jones Copy Share Image
“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Again, the law of balance does not allow anyone to take the lion's share of nature's gifts. Beauty in face is accompanied… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical… — John Amos Comenius Copy Share Image
It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
“The man who employs either his labour or his stock in a grater variety of ways than his situation renders necessary, can… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“WHATEVER YOU DO, DO IT WITH ALL YOUR MIGHT Work at it, if necessary, early and late, in season and out of… — P.T. Barnum Copy Share Image
The difference between the Japanese and the American is summed up in their opposite reactions to the proverb (popular in both nations),… — Carol Tavris Copy Share Image
