Quotes About Proverb

Human beings say, "It never rains but it pours." This is not very apt, for it frequently does rain without pouring. The rabbits' proverb is better expressed. They say, "One cloud feels lonely": and indeed it is true that the sky will soon be overcast.

Caput tuum in ano est.

As the proverb says, if you're offered two bad apples you pick the least rotten one. And that's Kang.

He who despises his own life is soon master of another's.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.

Military commanders choose to overlook the Kenyan proverb that proclaims the power of the flea--"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." Most generals would rather be lions than fleas.

The hare of whom the proverb goes,Whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard.

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase...

Laughter abounds in the mouths of fools.

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa—Who knows most, knows least.

A wicked man's gift hath a touch of his Master.

I gave him a watery smile. "There is an old Spanish proverb: 'Take what you want. Take it, said God. And pay.'" "We have paid every minute of our lives. Let someone else pay,

She said better safe than sorry. I said, that is a cliché, but Mum said things are only clichés because they are universal truths.

Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.

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

Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It's a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn't a metaphor. It was a, you know..." He stared off into space, blinking. "One of those things that's symbolic of another thing. But isn't the same thing. Just like it." "You mean a metaphor?" "No! It's like a story...like...a proverb! That's it." "I'm pretty sure that wasn't a proverb. Maybe it was an analogy." "I don't think so.

The seeds of the day are best planted in the first hour. DUTCH PROVERB

All things which make noise at the side of the path do not come down the path. AFRICAN PROVERB

You should keep learning as long as you are ignorant, – even to the end of your life, if there is anything in the proverb. And the proverb suits the present case as well as any: As long as you live, keep learning how to live.

A good soup attracts chairs. This is an African proverb. I can hear the shuffling and squeaking on the wood floor, the gathering 'round. This, from just five well-chosen words.

There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'

proverb, "A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.

England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes.