Quotes About Sayings

Give your ears, hear the sayings, Give your heart to understand them; It profits to put them in your heart; Woe to him who neglects them!

I prefer sayings over jokes.

Button-holes! there is something lively in the very idea of 'em - and trust me, when I get amongst 'em - you gentry with great beards - look as grave as you will - I'll make merry work with my button-holes - I shall have 'em all to myself - 'tis a maiden subject - I shall run foul of no man's wisdom or fine sayings in it.

Even misfortune has its advantages say the wise. Of course the wise say stupid things, because even wisdom has its foolishness, say I.

No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life... no man can deny the fact that Jesus existed, nor that his sayings are beautiful.

Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience.

Who knows but that all the men to whom reference has been made, and a multitude of others who lived in by-gone ages borrowed their wise sayings from the talk of the firesides and the conversations of the market places; so that the origin of many proverbs now flippantly quoted in the converse of men is lost in the mists of forgotten centuries.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

Everyone loves my sayings like, 'happy wife, happy life,' 'delicious and juicy,' 'love love love,' 'fabulous.' So I've made T shirts with that and hats and I've started a custom-made jewelry line.

It therefore provides a hermeneutical reference point for interpreting all his sayings, including the other Gospel statements from him about divorce and remarriage.

A proverb and a byword among all people.

I don't know the secret of Mrs. Brown, but what I do know is that there are things that Mrs. Brown says and does that Brendan O'Carroll couldn't get away with. I think maybe it's a leniency that they're with an old woman. It's the old woman thing. I think secretly we all just want to be Joan Rivers.

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which recounts the sayings and actions of the Prophet.

Value always involves some kind of reference to the activities of persons.' The process of human life on the earth is not ruled by disembodied values but by the personalities and doings and sayings of unique individual men and women.

Proverbs are the lamps to words.

My job involves searching for 'lost' quotations - that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone's mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose."

Our knowledge of human nature is for the most part empirical; and it would often be better, if, instead of endeavouring to say some new things ourselves, we were to confirm without more words the sayings of another.

If if's and and's were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers.