Quotes About Proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

If you must be in a hurry, then let it be according to the old adage, and hasten slowly.

As the Spanish proverb says, "He, who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

A jest breaks no bones.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

"For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.

The expression working like a dog dates back to a time in America when men would rise early, then lie around all day and lick their balls.

Kement a zo fall, a gar ar sall"—Everything that is not good asks to be salted. Everything from meat to butter to potatoes was salted. Salt was Brittany's cheapest product, the one everyone could afford. Another Breton proverb was "Aviz hag holen a roer d'an nep a c'houlenn"—Advice and salt are available to anyone who wants it.

Of him they said the proverb had been invented: All good swimmers are drowned.

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

It is said, in a Gorean proverb, that a man, in his heart, desires freedom, and that a woman, in her belly, yearns for love. The collar, in its way, answers both needs. The man is most free, owning the slave. He may do what he wishes with her. The woman, on the other hand, being owned, is institutionally and helplessly subject, in her status as slave, to the submissions of love.

A fool's tongue," Bruce Waltke wryly notes, "is long enough to cut his own throat."4

Old proverb says, That bird is not honest That filleth his own nest.

The short sayings of the wise and good men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the sparks of diamonds.

Let all that do ill, take this precedent: Man may his fate foresee, but not prevent. And of all axioms this shall win the prize, 'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

Art to me means lot of things - images and words. I may be no artist myself, but I recognise the pleasure you get from a new proverb or a new painting. It puts you in a particular frame of mind. Visually I like art, philosophically I like art.

After knowing him I saw the force of the proverb "Trust a snake before a Jew and a Jew before a Greek, but don't trust an Armenian

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

If you can't stand the heat…' 'Get out of the kitchen?' Holly completed the proverb but Nicky gave a saucy wink. 'Remove a layer of clothing.

AN OLD Camorri proverb has it that the only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy; anything and everything else can pass out of fashion—even something as utilitarian as a hill stuffed full of corpses.

AN OLD Camorri proverb has it that the only constant in the soul of man is inconstancy;

Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

Twelve highlanders and a bagpipe make a rebellion.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says.