Books Quote by Anthony Selvaggio

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

— John Hay

“If you read proverbs, you will find answers to every puzzle.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

“The goal of Proverbs is to grow ever closer to the God who is Wisdom. Knowing God is the proper definition of the good…

— Anthony Selvaggio

“Pay attention to proverbs.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

— Edward Abbey

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

The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is…

— Graeme Goldsworthy

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

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

— Joseph Joubert