Quotes About Proverb

Barking dogs seldom bite, but beware of those dogs that know this proverb.

Noting that it would be a long trial, with many witnesses, I recall the old Chinese proverb, "The palest ink is better than the best memory," urging the jury to take detailed notes to aid them in their deliberations.

Yet as the proverb says, 'In vino veritas,' whether with boys, or without them (In allusion to two proverbs.); and therefore I must speak.

May not 'the wolf,' as the proverb says, 'claim a hearing'?

Men of my age flock together; we are birds of a feather, as the old proverb says;

But bees that hae honey in their mouths hae stings in their tails, aye?

Health is the greatest of all possessions, and it is a maxim with me that a hale cobbler is a better man than a sick king.

When God punishes a land, he deprives it leaders of wisdom.

Quotable quotes are coins rubbed smooth by circulation.

In the kingdom of the blind, Amelia recited to herself as she trudged along— —the one-eyed man is king, Gamache read.

He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from, he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement.

look at the wisdom (and humor) found in this Chinese proverb: If you want happiness for an hour—take a nap. If you want happiness for a day—go fishing. If you want happiness for a month—get married. If you want happiness for a year—inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime—help others.

He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.

A greedy father has thieves for children

Experience," says the proverb, "is a hard school to attend, but fools will learn in no

The noblest names in history are those, the records of whose lives are written in their own blood. To suffer is grander than to do: this has passed into a proverb. For illustrious lives we ransack, not palaces, but prisons.

Al contadino non gli far sapere, quanto sia buono il cacio colle pere' –

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.

When all candles are out, all cats are grey, All things are then of one color, as who say. And this proverb faith, for quenching hot desire, Foul water as soon as faire, will quench hot fire.

Those who go to bed with Ichy bum-wake up with stinky finger!

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced; even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it

My solitude has become even more profound, and I know nothing of the sun but what your letter tells me. It has thus been a blessed messenger, and contrary to the proverb, this single swallow has made for me an entire spring.

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.