Quotes About Proverb

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

The crow when travelling abroad came back just as black.

A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example.

is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

A lot of truth is said in jest.

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.

The wise have noted more than once that he who argues with a dunce might just as well compare his jaw against an oven's yawning door. And now a saying comes to mind, a proverb that King Alfred coined: "Be careful not to waste your life where strife & quarrelling are rife; keep well away from fractious fools.

They usually spent the night apart, though in the morning they woke twined more often than not, as though in sleep in their bodies sought each other. In wine and dream comes truth: the old proverb slipped through his mind unbidden.

A Sudanese proverb from the time declared that "Salt comes from the north, gold from the south, and silver from the country of the white men, but the word of God and the treasures of wisdom are only to be found in Timbuctoo.

A turquoise given by a loving hand carries with it happiness and good fortune." Arabic proverb

Aunque la mona se vista de seda, mona se queda… —insistió Mercedes. —¿Qué dices? —le preguntó Bruno que no entendía lo que su amiga le decía. —Nada, es un refrán español, que quiere decir que no importa que uno se ponga un buen traje y se haga pasar por un señor, porque siempre se le notará de dónde viene. —¡Mercedes! —El tono de Hans era de reproche.

Milo remembered an old saying his father used to quote to him when he was a boy: Beware the wrath of a patient man.

He repeated to himself an old French proverb that he had made up that morning.

Beware of a bad woman, and put no trust in a good one. #Woman'sDay

No wise sayings today?" Tiana asked. Ms. Rose loved sharing nuggets of wisdom she said were passed down from her mother. The woman's brow lifted. "Actually, I do have one for you: Ti bwa ou pa wè, se li ki pete je ou . The twig you don't see is the one that puts out your eye." Tiana peered at the flowers Ms. Rose had handed her. "Are there twigs in here?" "Be cautious," the woman said. "It means to always be aware of your surroundings.

One boy's a boy; two boys be half a boy, and three boys be no boy at all', ran the old country saying.

The Thai have a proverb, "Sweet sickens, bitter heals'.

An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: "The hunchback sees the hump of others—never his own.

Yiddish proverb: Man plans, God laughs.

An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: "The hunchback sees the hump of others—never his own." Three

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.