Quotes About Proverb

Every proverb speaketh sooth; Dreams and omens mask the truth.

Where is he?" "Five miles due west of Ajaccio." The don smiled. "Or thereabouts." "Alive one hour," said Keller, quoting a Corsican proverb, "dead the next.

You know what they say about vengeance?" "What's that?" "'If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two.'" "That's a very old Arab proverb." "It's Jewish, actually.

If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. – Jewish proverb

If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. ANCIENT JEWISH PROVERB

hijo de gato caza ratones...siempre y cuando sepa que es hijo de gato.

Don't offer me advice give me money.

One drink is just right two is too many three are too few.

Under a tattered cloak you will generally find a good drinker.

As Henry G. Felsen, a humorist and no medical authority, pointed out quite a while ago, proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.

Emshandar's problems were his fault. He who wakes the dog must bear the bite, his mother had always said.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. JAPANESE PROVERB

Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.

A sententious and vulgar statement, certainly, but like many such gnomic vulgarities, it also contains a tiny splinter of truth.

There is a Russian proverb,' Nepeja said. 'Beat your shuba, and it will be warmer; beat your wife and she shall be sweeter.' There was a brief silence, while his hearers considered the analogy. 'Beat your brother and he shall be deader?' at length Danny said.

Never mind," said Ford. "Rome wasn't burned in a day.

I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.

There is a proverb my grandmother used to repeat: Old sins have long shadows.

He opened his mouth and out came a rainbow, he thought, recalling the proverb about a person who talks a bigger game than he can deliver.

Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest.

Con dizir flama non se quema la boca (refrán sefardí)

I followed the words of the famous Russian proverb: Doveryai, no proveryai (or, in English, 'Trust, but verify').

The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.

Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'