Quotes About Proverb

Mais vale um pássaro na mão do que dois voando, a senhora Morris disse para ela. — Tenho ouvido esse provérbio a minha vida inteira — disse Myra Murray —, e me pergunto se é verdade. Talvez os pássaros voando pudessem cantar, e aquele na mão, não.

No one who can rise before dawn 360 days a year fails to make his family rich ~ Chinese proverb

I sat down and remembered a saying Old Aunt used to tell me whenever I complained that I had been wrongly accused: "Don't strike a flea on a tiger's head." Don't settle one trouble only to make a bigger one.

APOPHTHEGM  (A'POPHTHEGM)   n.s. remarkable saying; a valuable maxim uttered on some sudden occasion.

One Crow for sorrow, Two Crows for mirth, Three Crows for a wedding, Four Crows for a birth, Five Crows for silver, Six Crows for gold, Seven for a secret, never to be told.

This is the derivation of that old Yankee proverb that if you can sell a book, you can move sixty tons of weaponry three hundred miles in winter

THERE'S A YIDDISH PROVERB YOU'LL FIND quoted in many books on parenting: "Little children disturb your sleep; big children your life.

It was in olden times truly observed by Cato, that there is great concern about the appearance of the body but great carelessness about virtue. There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

The ancient proverb says, "Satiety   produces disgust

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow. Swedish proverb

At the first gate, the gatekeeper asks, "Is this true?" At the second gate, he asks, "Is it kind?" And at the third gate, "Is it necessary?" If we applied this proverb strictly, most of us would have very little to say. I am not recommending silence, however, but control over our speech.

A proverb works as an effective herb to curb or cure the mental illness of the selfish people of this world.

A woman can never prove her argument right with a wiseman's proverb so she has to take the support of a wicked person's thought only to bolster her belligerent point.

The difference between a Thought and a Proverb is that anything said by anyone is a Thought, which even upon not being intellectually worthy can be foolishly or selfishly admired by many people especially when the speaker is financially wealthy; but if a person's quote has got wisdom a lot for the whole world and endorsed or sought by sage minds only, then it becomes a Proverb.

The dream of a cat is filled with mice

A proverb is to speech what salt is to food.

After dinner, rest after dinner walk a mile.

Injury makes one prudent,' says the proverb; insofar as it makes one prudent it also makes one bad. Fortunately, it frequently makes people stupid.

And Ningauble began to sort out in his mind the details of the Mouser's story, treasuring it the more because he knew it was an improvisation, his favorite proverb being, He who lies artistically, treads closer to the truth than ever he knows.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Five hours sleepeth a traveller, seven a scholar, eight a merchant, and eleven every knave.' So

Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.