Quotes About Proverbs

The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.

The road to hell is paved with leeks and potatoes

Like they say: los que menos corren, vuelan.

Of making many books there is no end—So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.Thou wert my guide, philosopher and friendWhen only one is shining in the sky.

...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...

I am against people reaping where they have not sown. But we have a saying that if you want to eat a toad you should look for a fat and juicy one.

In Vietnamese, there's a proverb that says, When you love, you use the cane. When you hate, you use your sweet kind words.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy? —Proverbs 27:4

Of course, talking only in proverbs would be impossible. Proverbs are full of poetry and twists. They are made up of words that have been molded for centuries, if not milleniums, until a minimum of words carry an extraordinary potential for meaning.

Within this divinely anointed compilation of Proverbs, there is a deep well of wisdom to reign in life and to succeed in our destiny. The wisdom that God has designed for us to receive will cause us to excel—to rise up as rulers-to-be in the earth and in the spiritual realm. The kingdom of God is brought into the earth as we implement the heavenly wisdom of Proverbs.

Proverbs. Although the Proverbs can be interpreted in their most literal and practical sense, the wisdom contained herein is not unlocked by a casual surface reading. The Spirit of revelation has breathed upon every verse to embed a deeper meaning. Solomon, the wisest human to ever live, has written a book containing some of the deepest revelation in the Bible.

Get ready to be filled to overflowing with the Spirit of wisdom and the revelation that God is pouring out in this hour. Proverbs is written for the sons and daughters who have been chosen to rule and reign on the earth. Hang on to every word, for all that God says will bring life to you, a life full of his wisdom from above.

I would strangle her in a minute. I sat down at the table and smiled at her. "My patience is an infinite lake. Feel free to drown yourself." There were times when ancient proverbs came in handy.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

The heart of the wise teaches his mouth and adds persuasiveness to his lips. —Proverbs 16:23

The soul of the diligent is made fat" (Proverbs 13:4).

These things happen in threes,' said Milly in her way of uttering bits of folk-wisdom; she was spooning tea into the heated teapot. She always mixed tea with maxims.

There is an old Russian saying: When fingernails are being pulled out in Moscow, fingers are being chopped off in the provinces. That saying one can take at full value.

Proverbs for Paranoids, 2: The innocence of the creatures is in inverse proportion to the immorality of the Master.

Do you know Eastern proverbs? "Unskilled guns, but... The more guns, the likely they will hit..." I've got plenty of Akuma to go around.

God pity the man or the nation wise in proverbs, I told myself, for there is much misery and much error gone into the collecting of such a store.

My words are life unto those that find them, and my words are health, or medicine, to all their flesh" (Proverbs 4:20–22).