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Quotes About Proverbially

for he had plenty of money and nothing to do, and Satan is proverbially fond of providing employment for full and idle hands. The poor fellow had temptations enough from without and from within, but he withstood them pretty well, for much as he valued liberty, he valued good faith and confidence more
~ Louisa May Alcott
I'd gone on such a rampage that I would have made the proverbial bull in the proverbial china shop look unproverbially good by proverbial comparison. (Personally, I don't even know how he'd fit through the door. Proverbially.)
~ Brandon Sanderson
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
~ William James
Shrewd as the British capitalist proverbially is, his judgment in regard to American investments has been singularly fallible.
~ CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
Women are proverbially credulous.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater