Quotes About Proverbs

Now notice Proverbs 6:2. In the margin of my Bible, that verse reads, "Thou art taken captive with the words of thy mouth." In other words, you said the wrong thing, and as a result, you were taken captive.

Sharp! yes, her tongue is like a new-set razor. She's quite original in her talk too; one of those untaught wits that help to stock a country with proverbs. I told you that capital thing I heard her say about Craig—that he was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. Now that's an Æsop's fable in a sentence.

Born on Monday, fair in the face; Born on Tuesday, full of God's grace; Born on Wednesday, sour and sad; Born on Thursday, merry and glad; Born on Friday, worthily given;

A wise son maketh a glad father.

Many have been the wise speeches of fools, though not so many as the foolish speeches of wise men.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6

An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb

Hanya kisahlah... yang bisa menghindarkan keturunan kita dari membuat kesalahan besar seperti pengemis-pengemis buta yang menabrak duri-duri pagar kaktus. (Anthills of The Savannah)

Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten

Igbo sayings and proverbs are far more valuable to me as a human being in understanding the complexity of the world than the doctrinaire, self-righteous strain of the Christian faith I was taught.

What was missing in all of them, he thought, was a recognition of Africans as people with projects—lives they were leading, aspirations they were striving for—and a rich existing culture, exemplified in the proverbs and the religious traditions that are threaded through these novels. He was writing, as he often said, against the Africa of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.

A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in baskets of silver.

Who makes up or invents proverbs? They are so often a crockful of never-mind-what. They pile up platitude upon platitude which the officious and unctuous mouth in and out of season and are taken to be the distillates of wisdom.

From literature the African was excluded altogether. He was not supposed to have expressed any thought worth knowing. The philosophy in the African proverbs and in the rich folklore of that continent was ignored to give preference to that developed on the distant shores of the Mediterranean.

No man should live longer than his teeth.

Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it...

As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool.

He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life; but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the street.

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. It is only by alienating the desired that language masters it. The frenzy of desire in the medium of words yields the mania of the catalogue. I struggle with the proverbs of hell.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.