Quotes About Proverb

When the great lord passes, the wise peasant bows deeply and silently farts. Ethiophan proverb

The fact is, as the proverb says, before you can cook your rabbit you first have to catch it.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

That had the irritating sound of an old saying.

The past was a field of embers and ash, an old Saldaean proverb said, the remnants of the fire that was the present.

At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying.

there is some truth to the old statement

You must learn to think a little, Anne, that's what. The proverb you need to go by is 'Look before you leap'--especially into spare room beds.

famous Japanese adage that is both edifying and rippingly depictive," said Drayton. "Carp eyes coming, fish eyes going . . ." "Soon will be the wind in the pines

Silence is also speech. -Silerian Proverb The bitter heart eats it's owner. -Kintish Proverb Only one thing is better than learning an enemy is dead: learning that he is in Sileria. -Valdani Proverb

Two things spread quickly: gossip and a forest fire"—Cypriot proverb.) I

A great stock, though with small profits, generally increases faster than a small stock with great profits. Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have a little, it is often easier to get more. The great difficulty is to get that little.

The man who employs either his labour or his stock in a grater variety of ways than his situation renders necessary, can never hurt his neighbour by underselling him. He may hurt himself, and he generally does so. Jack of all trades will never be rich, says the proverb. But the law ought always to trust people with the care of their own interest, as in their local situations they must generally be able to judge better of it than the legislator can do.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation...

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

If only I'd remembered that old proverb: When three people say you are drunk, go to sleep.

An Arabic proverb: One insect is enough to fell a country. A Japanese proverb: Even an insect one-tenth of an inch long has five-tenths of a soul.

There are two parts to the equation: feel good + take action. The ancient Sufi proverb says; "Trust in Allah, but first tie your camel to a post.

O provérbio diz: a quem mal vive, o medo o segue.

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'

I'd better make hay while the sun shines.

Me and the crickets've been here since five, Professor. You know what they say. Early bird catches the worm.

Hatfield and her colleagues sum up emotional contagion research with an Arabic proverb: "A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot.

Then he recited to the still very groggy Sultan the old Arab proverb, 'He that sleeps one-third of the night has done as well as he that sleeps half the night, and he that sleeps all night will awaken an idiot.