Quote by Linda Goodnight

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

— Sarah Doudney

The proverb is something musty.

— William Shakespeare

“The rulers of your minds indulge in proverbs, but they've forgotten the main one, that love cannot be forced, and they have a deeply…

— Boris Pasternak

“Bow down and pray in fear and trembling, go way back in the dark afraid; or work harder and harder; or stumble and learn;…

— Langston Hughes

“she whispers into my truculence and I succumb to that thing called faith that blind old hag who left her brothers and sisters under…

— Daniel Ames

“Proverbs doesn’t have a story line—it’s simply a collection of practical tips for living. Mainly from the pen of King Solomon, the wisest human…

— Paul Kent

“I am reassured to know that the straightness of my grain is not a precondition of usefulness to God. And I am humbled to…

— Robert D. Lupton

“With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with my own hand labour'd it to grow: And this was all the Harvest…

— Edward FitzGerald

“Daughter of wheat and grain, Betrothed to soil and stain, Your lifeblood drips, The scales tip, But will it be in vain?”

— Laura Thalassa

“Seek the prosperity of thy soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“There is a proverb which says "As the soul is at three so it is at one hundred,”

— Yei Theodora Ozaki

“Your work, coming from a fluid source, can be traced to the naked song of your youth. You spoke then of holding hands with…

— Patti Smith