Proverb Quotes

“The bowl is warmer than the soup.”

— Idries Shah

For like to like, the proverb saith.

— Thomas Wyatt

“Take sleep mark death.”

— Glen L. Richards

The proverb is something musty.

— William Shakespeare

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

— William Gilmore Simms

“What you choose also chooses you.”

— Kamand Kojouri

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

— Anonymous

“In youth audacity is wise”

— William Allingham

So long as a man is angry he cannot be in the right

— Anonymous

Your feet will bring you where your heart is

— Irish Proverb

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

— Miguel de Cervantes

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

— Patricia Wentworth

“Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.”

— Idries Shah

Those who can't dance say the music is no good

— Jamaican Proverb

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

— Anonymous

“An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ― Portuguese Proverb”

— Andrew

“A Chinese proverb reminds us: You cannot prevent birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from…

— Anne Bryan Smollin

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

— John Keats

“A Japanese proverb: Even an insect one tenth of an inch long has five tenths of a soul.”

— Offill Jenny

“It had been Theodore Roosevelt’s dictum — using a supposed West African proverb — that a successful leader should “speak softly and…

— Nigel Hamilton

“We were, to quote the proverb, ‘The one dog who barks at nothing answered by a thousand dogs barking at something …’ ” During”

— David Mitchell

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

— Anonymous

“Remember the proverb of Solomon: "He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.”

— P.T. Barnum

“Dogs may be a man's best friends, but the proverb says, "Tell me who your friends are, and I will tell you…

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of…

— William Penn

“Every man experiences what you call love for every pretty woman and least of all for his wife. That is what the…

— Leo Tolstoy

People will, in a great degree, and not without reason, form their opinion of you upon that which they have of your…

— Lord Chesterfield

“The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“A Turkish proverb says the one who speaks truth would be expelled from nine villages. This is true; but there always exist…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Better an empty house than a bad tenant’ and ‘something is better than nothing’- these proverbs are contradictory! 1st one says, ‘it…

— Md. Ziaul Haque

A leading scholar of Basra visited Rabi'a al-Adawiyya while she was ill. ting beside her pillow, the scholar spoke about how terrible…

— Rabia Basri

“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

“Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent on man, as a moralist,…

— Thomas Paine

“Setbacks and failure are all part of a well-balanced kitchen diet and life. I have come to know this. And it makes…

— Caroline Eden

“Get up! There is an old Japanese Proverb that says, "Fall seven times, stand up eight.” In Proverbs 24:16 it says “Though…

— Jason Versey

“May Hegel's philosophy of absolute nonsense - three-fourths cash and one-fourth crazy fancies - continue to pass for unfathomable wisdom without anyone…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“1 Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral May you have no frost on your spuds, No worms on your cabbage. May your goat give plenty of milk.…

— Janice Thompson