Quotes About Proverb

Suum cuique pulchrum est.

Help your brother's boat across, and lo! your own has reached the shore. HINDU PROVERB

The medieval proverb nulle terre sans seigneur [There is no land without its lord. — Ed.] is thereby replaced by that other proverb, l'argent n'a pas de maître [Money knows no master. — Ed.], wherein is expressed the complete domination of dead matter over man.

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE

May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

The early bird gets the worm, and the early fox gets the bird.

Beyond doubt it would speedily verify the proverb that a nation must ravage itself before foreigners can ravage it, a man must despise himself before others can despise him.

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.

Beware of epigram! It is one of Satan's favourite disguises.

The apothegm is the most portable form of Truth.... It is thus that the proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly expended in the air.

It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty.

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: "Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.

May your troubles be as few and as far apart as my grandmother's teeth. Irish proverb

Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy

Bad luck to your mother.

A dog is only a dog. But a collie is – a collie. Says the scotch proverb: "A collie has the brain of a man, and the ways of a woman!

We're in different beds but we have the same dream." Li smiled. Cao had reversed the Chinese proverb of "different dreams in the same bed." The implication of the saying was that no two people could fully trust each other. Even a husband and wife who'd slept beside each other for fifty years had different dreams.

When pride comes, then comes dishonor, but with the humble is wisdom" (Prov. 11:2;