Character Quote by James Sharp Download Open image “Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective.” — James Sharp ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Moral
Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct. — Dorothea Brande Copy Share Image
Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories. — John Hay Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 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
Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Perhaps Madame de Maintenon would never have mounted… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
It is in vain to expect any advantage from our profession of the truth, if we be not sincerely just and honest in our… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
It is not every calamity that is a curse, and early adversity is often a blessing. Surmounted difficulties not only teach, but hearten us… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
I would not cross the street to make a Baptist, but I would go round the world to make a Christian. — James Sharp Copy Share Image
All solitary enjoyments, quickly fall, or become painful, so that, perhaps, no more insufferable misery can be conceived than that which must follow incommunicable… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
Satirical writers and speakers are not half so clever as they think themselves, nor as they are thought to be. They do winnow the… — James Sharp Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And… — Warwick Davis Copy Share Image
