Quotes About Proverbs

Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is found in all those who take advice Proverbs 13:10

The house of the righteous contains great treasure, but the income of the wicked brings them trouble Proverbs 15:6

Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for an old man. I put pieces in order and build up a kind of Utopian castle.

Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!

Eat bread and salt, and speak the truth' ", said Father Sergius. "That is one of our old proverbs.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

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.

Attend to me, Sancho, I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be for ever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Proverbs 2:4–5 challenges the body of Christ to seek the Lord as silver. We must gain the knowledge of Him, for there are hidden things that God will only give to the hungry.

Proverbs 19:21 is a foundational Scripture in regard to understanding God's purpose: "Many are the plans in a man's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.

She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. —Proverbs 31:25

So obviously we know that while there is certainly wisdom here that will work to some degree for those outside of God's covenant, this is wisdom that is anchored in God and his covenant people. This vital relationship as a foundation for the wisdom in the book of Proverbs is repeated throughout the book.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings-- they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner harmony by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through fire.

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

Wisdom—the wisdom of God—is the principal thing; therefore, get wisdom (Proverbs 4:7).

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.

Doing the best as we can to figure out life, to discern how or if a certain proverb applies right here and now, is not an act of disloyalty toward God, rebellion against God's clear rulebook for life. It is, rather, our sacred responsibility as people of faith.

Reading the book of Proverbs on child rearing is like paying good money for financial advice and being told after ten sessions, "Here's what I've come up with. Invest your money wisely, and you will be set for retirement." I was hoping for stock tips.

This is the point of the story: the choice put before Adam and Eve is the same choice put before Israel every day: learn to listen to God and follow in his ways and then—only then—you will live. The story of Adam and Eve makes this point in the form of a myth. Proverbs makes it in the form of wisdom literature. Israel's long story in the Old Testament makes it in the form of historical narrative.

The point is that Proverbs 26:4–5 doesn't tell me what to do. It wasn't designed to. It models something better: the permission to think it through, figure it out, and learn from experience for next time. In fact, more than just giving us permission, the contradiction sets up our expectation that we will have to think it through.

Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.