Quotes About Proverbs

God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Many true words are spoken in jest.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions. (Proverbs 18:2)

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.

1 Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral May you have no frost on your spuds, No worms on your cabbage. May your goat give plenty of milk. If you inherit a donkey, may she be in foal. Irish saying There's no denying the fact that my grandpa Aengus shaped the way I look at life. The man had a saying for everything. If I fell and scraped my knee, he mended it with an Irish proverb: "For every storm, a rainbow, for every tear, a smile." If I woke up with a head cold, he had an Irish

Some proverbs live because they are too true to die. Others endure because they have a smug sound and nobody has bothered to bury them.

The evidence for editing and compiling is most obvious in Proverbs and Jeremiah, thus establishing the principle that the words of inspired messengers may in fact be handled in such a manner. Once the principle has been established, we need not be alarmed if we find more subtle clues of editing in other biblical books. Editors may have been at work on them as well. Why not?

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

When pride comes, then comes dishonor, but with the humble is wisdom" (Prov. 11:2;

Do not go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity; better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away. Proverbs 27:10

There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.

Chinese are noted for their aphorisms and proverbs, and they and Indians find great sources of humor in parables, which we in the West find only moderately funny, although they do combine wisdom, moralizing and a sense of perspective

Like apples of gold in a silver setting is a word that is aptly spoken. It is a golden ring, an ornament of finest gold, such is a wise apology to an attentive ear." —Proverbs 25:11–12

The book of Proverbs warns us over and over again about negative associations. Constant exposure to wrong attitudes and wrong values will eventually take its toll in our lives. It is always easier to pull someone down than it is to lift him up. What kind of friends should you have? The kind who bring out the best in you, who lift you up, who encourage you, who make you a better person.

Actually, the quotation is more accurately depicted as 'Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.' Proverbs, chapter sixteen, verse eighteen.

The study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the most elaborate scheme of philosophy.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing personal opinion. —PROVERBS 18:2

Patch grief with proverbs

Patch griefs with proverbs.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

There is an old Irish saying that man's best friends and worst enemies are fire, rain, and wind.