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Quotes About Proverb

A good maxim is never out of season.
~ English proverb
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
~ Spanish proverb
There is a Kretan proverb that says that peace is always "over there", but that is no longer true: it is within our grasp.
~ Graham McNeill
A truth spoken before its time is dangerous.
~ Greek proverb
the three monkeys of lore;
~ Gregg Hurwitz
Omne ignotum pro terribili. ?? ?? ??? ????? ??? ??? ????. - ????? ??????.
~ Guillaume Musso
A proverb is much matter decocted into a few words.
~ Thomas Fuller
Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
~ Orson Scott Card
Early to bed and early to rise...makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
~ Orson Scott Card
the clock said 0340, and Ender felt groggy as he padded along the corridor behind Mazer. "Early to bed and early to rise," Mazer intoned, "makes a man stupid and blind in the eyes.
~ Orson Scott Card
Oh, if you're a bird, be an early bird And catch the worm for your breakfast plate. If you're a bird, be an early bird But if you're a worm, sleep late.
~ Cornelia Funke
Es mejor tener mil enemigos fuera de casa que uno dentro. Proverbio árabe
~ Cornelia Funke
The strongest memory is weaker than the palest ink. Chinese proverb, Die Weisse und die Schwarze Kunst
~ Cornelia Funke
I've often cited the Buddhist proverb "When the student is ready, the teacher will appear." Although it is not always evident at the time, all of our experiences in this life, even those that are painful, have a true and necessary purpose in our soul's journey.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
You can not shoe a flea," Russians say. Whoever coined the proverb forgot about poets.
~ Charles Simic
I've got a lot of wishes about it, but you know what they say. 'If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.'" "I've never heard that before in my life, and I'm not sure I even know what it means." "It means that you could spit in one hand and wish in the other, and we all know which hand'll fill up quicker.
~ Cherie Priest
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.
~ Russian proverb
Cold weather in spring makes the ass shiver.
~ Sardinian proverb
Trust is the mother of deceit.
~ English proverb
Ancient oceanic proverb: The enemy of my anemone is my frenanemone.
~ Author unknown, c.2015
In Vino Veritas. The classy thing to say when you've had too much to drink and have just said something that is decidedly not classy, in vino veritas has been employed as a mea culpa of sorts for thousands of years. In the first century AD, Pliny the Elder referred to the "common proverb that in wine, there is truth in vino veritas."
~ Merriam-Webster.com, 2016
Of wine the middle, of oil the top, and of honey the bottom is best.
~ Italian proverb
Good wine makes good blood.
~ Italian proverb
Wine wears no breeches.
~ English proverb