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Proverb Quotes by Mark Twain
- The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one…
- Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
- The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
- Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric…
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- When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do… — Pope Francis
- There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me — Elizabeth I
- A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. — Miguel de Cervantes
- I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal… — Miguel de Cervantes
- I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong,… — Miguel de Cervantes
- There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
- There is an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far,… — Al Gore
- 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