When the fool is told a Proverb, its meaning has to be explained to him — African Proverb Copy Share Image
“To see the heavens, you must climb to the heavens." - Erudian proverb” — J.V. Hilliard Copy Share Image
“Hold mirth tight against your breast, but answer every injury with bladed heart.” — Chris Galford Copy Share Image
Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation. — Rebecca L. Walkowitz Copy Share Image
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two proverbs.); and therefore I… — Plato Copy Share Image
“I was reminded of a proverb: 'When a clay Buddha statue sails across the river, it can hardly protect itself.” — Qiu Xiaolong Copy Share Image
“Whoever cannot see the hand of God in finding their mate, will never see the hand of God in anything. —JEWISH PROVERB” — Ruchama King Feuerman Copy Share Image
“Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; love more, and all good things… — Rachel Jonat Copy Share Image
I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well. — Francois Rabelais Copy Share Image
“For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“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
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
“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
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
There's an African proverb that I always quote as I think it's incredible which is, 'if the children are not initiated into… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It goes without saying that even those of us who are going to hell will get eternal life—if that territory really exists… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“No, sir! If, for example, in earlier times it was said to me: “Love your neighbour” and I acted on it, what… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The "sayings" of a community, its proverbs, are its characteristic comment upon life; they imply its history, suggest its attitude toward the… — Willa Cather 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
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
