Quotes About Proverb

Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.

Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.

I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well.

Tell the truth and . . .run!" Old Croatian proverb

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

Since good intentions and sympathy for others often led people into trouble, the Chinese people had invented a new proverb that said, 'The more you do, the more trouble you have; the less you do, the less trouble you have. If you do nothing whatever, you will become a model citizen.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

One of our sillier Zemblan proverbs says: the lost glove is happy. Promptly

There's an old Cheyenne saying about how, when a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove.

Fear not a jest. If one throws salt at you, you will not be harmed unless you have sore places.

Pues en Bulgaria dicen: Si pones una vela para Dios, pon dos para el diablo.

An ancient proverb warns us that we should not expect to find old heads upon young shoulders;

If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more or less, for four weeks together.

Love is blind but the neighbors are not.

A proverb is much light condensed in one flash.

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food.

A man's life is often builded on a proverb.

A proverb is an ornament to language.

As the country so the proverb.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation...

A proverb is an exploding atom of wisdom.

Dost thou not, then, Prometheus, know this proverb, that "Words are the physicians of a mind diseased"?

Aphorism: a concise, clever statement. Afterism: a concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.