Quote by Plato

The proverb is something musty.

— William Shakespeare

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept…

— William Wallace

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

— John Hay

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

— Anonymous

There is no proverb that is not true.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is?”

— C. Fern Cook

“in oral cultures proverbs and sayings are not occasional devices:”

— Neil Postman

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

— John Morley

Everything that thou reprovest in another, thou must most carefully avoid in thyself. [Lat., Omnia quae vindicaris in altero, tibi ipsi vehementer fugienda sunt.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Wise men speak when they have something to say, fools speak because they have to say something”

— Aristotle

“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

For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.

— Thomas Wyatt