Quotes About Sayings

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs

it is in sayings of Jesus that "God" is referred to as "the Father" (e.g., 4:21-23).

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

Proverbs are the lamps to words.

The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry.

The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths. Genius rapidly traverses the living present to bury itself in the deepest mysteries of the universe; often making the grandest discoveries at a single glance.

The Gospel of Thomas claims to be the secret sayings of Jesus. There are 114 of them, so it says many things, but the central message is that Jesus is the one who reveals the divine light that brought the universe into being, and that you and I also reveal that light.

Many are the sayings of Elia... scattered about in obscure periodicals and forgotten miscellanies. From the dust of some of these it is our intention occasionally to revive a tract or two that shall seem worthy of a better fate.... seeing that Messieurs the Quarterly Reviewers have chosen to embellish their last dry pages with fruitful quotations therefrom...

Sensible men show their sense by saying much in few words. Noble actions are the substance of life; good sayings its ornament and guide.

What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech.

A man's life is often builded on a proverb.

It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they know full well are ridiculous.

Good sayings are like pearls strung together.

La gente mantiene conversaciones enteras basadas en proverbios. Pero no están VIVIENDO los proverbios.

Messia, like a typical Sicilian storyteller, fills her narrative with color, nature, objects; she conjures up magic, but frequently bases it on realism, on a picture of the condition of the common people; hence her imaginative language, but a language firmly rooted in commonsensical speech and sayings.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

la tía Lala decía que ella

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry.

by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.