Platitudes Quote by Aldous Huxley

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

— John Hay

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

— Joseph Joubert

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

— Charles Buxton

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…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Pay attention to proverbs.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To…

— John Florio

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

— John Morley

“Proverbs is not a reference book to pull off the shelf when you are stumped by life’s difficulties. It is not a set of…

— Anthony Selvaggio

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no proverb that is not true.

— Miguel de Cervantes

Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan