Proverb Quotes

185 quotes by 144 authors

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips. — Walter Scott
Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost." — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old… — Ambrose Bierce
The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts… — Martin Luther
It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of… — Dan Quisenberry
The proverb answers where the sermon fails. — William Gilmore Simms
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems. — Thomas Carlyle
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is… — Idries Shah
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards? — Josh Billings
As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its… — Richard Chenevix Trench
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. — John F. Kennedy
The proverb is something musty. — William Shakespeare
The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will… — William Gilmore Simms
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the… — Benjamin Franklin
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk! — John Heywood
The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own… — Nicholson Baker
I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep. — Bryan Procter
There is that great proverb â€” that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. — Chinua Achebe

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