Quotes About Proverbs

Why must an aphorism be brief? Because only a fool gives a speech in a burning house.

In a sermon on a text from Proverbs—"adversity kills only where there is a weakness to be killed"—one of the North's leading clergymen expressed this new mood of grim resolution.

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses . When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun . In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true .

The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.

There's a verse in Proverbs that speaks to me. "There are three things which are too wonderful for me, four which I do not understand. The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship in the middle of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid." The

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

you can say whatever you want, but I will tell you this truth- there is a reggae song which speaks the prophesies of every condition we see today. my reggae creation is like the biblical book of psalms and proverbs. its all true. its divinely spiritual.

Hatred stirs up conflict, but love covers over all wrongs. Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning. PROVERBS 10:12 – 13

Humans have a wonderful saying for everything and then proceed to ignore the wisdom in all of them.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless.

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

Man who eat many prunes get good run for money.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

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.

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.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity. I collected some of their Proverbs.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

They never get ahead an inch, because they are always hugging some coward maxim, which they can only interpret literally.... Of what use is it "to be sawing about a set of maxims to which there is a complete set of antagonist maxims"? Proverbs, it has been well said, should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half-truth.

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

Sadly, God mentions no crowned nags in Proverbs.