Best Proverb Quotes

#1. To find what you seek in the road of life,
the best proverb of all is that which says:
Leave no stone unturned.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

#2. Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

Benjamin Franklin

#3. L-EVELS
O-F
V-ARYING
E-MOTIONS


BEING IN LOVE IS ALWAYS A
COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP!

Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier

#4. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." ~ Chinese Proverb

Tim Baker

#5. ...he didn't know if he was Chuang Tzu who dreamed he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Tzu.

Inio Asano

#6. 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.

Miguel De Cervantes

#7. A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

Moses Ibn Ezra

#8. Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.

Leigh Bardugo

#9. There is a proverb that says, 'Talk so that I may know who you are.' But I say, 'Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.

Nawal El Saadawi

#10. There is an end to every journey.
Even life will come to an end one moment in time.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit. (A wise man does not urinate against the wind.) Roman proverb

L. Michael Hall

#12. Who can find a virtuous woman? the proverb asks. For her price is above rubies. She seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships, that bringeth food from afar.

Stephen King

#13. A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)

Habeeb Akande

#14. If your vision is for a year, plant wheat. If your vision is for ten years, plant trees If your vision is for a lifetime, plant people. CHINESE PROVERB

Andy Stanley

#15. Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.

Idries Shah

#16. There is a Kretan proverb that says that peace is always "over there", but that is no longer true: it is within our grasp.

Graham McNeill

#17. In a good book the best is between the lines.

Swedish Proverb

#18. There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

Soichiro Honda

#19. May you never forget what is worth remembering, Nor ever remember what is best forgotten. Irish proverb

Janice Thompson

#20. Every man's personal proverb about himself is: "Whatever is, is right, in the best of all possible people." The

Luke Rhinehart

#21. The proverb says revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but Ronson Fast-Lite had yet to be invented when they made that one up.

Stephen King

#22. Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#23. It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'

Dan Quisenberry

#24. The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.

Idries Shah

#25. If you want an audience, start a fight. - IRISH PROVERB

Josh Kaufman

#26. You need to take care of the root in order to heal the tree. - Gullah Proverb

Patti Callahan Henry

#27. A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.
~Welsh Proverb~

Elise McCune

#28. No colour comes after black.

Idries Shah

#29. Don't listen to what they say. Go see. - Chinese proverb

J.W. "Bill" Marriott Jr.

#30. A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Anonymous

#31. A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

Bertrand Russell

#32. The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

Marian Keyes

#33. Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say 'out of the frying-pan into the fire' in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#34. The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

Idries Shah

#35. We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

Honore De Balzac

#36. The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'.

Saki

#37. Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.

Patricia Wentworth

#38. When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Gertrude Stein

#39. A Saigon Proverb: Doe la chine tran, neu buon la thua. Life is a struggle in which sorrow leads to defeat.

Kim Thuy

#40. And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'

Robert Hamer

#41. Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.

Lisa Shearin

#42. Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#43. A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb

Matthew Polly

#44. Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.

Idries Shah

#45. proverb attributed to Seneca that says, "A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Anonymous

#46. A Chinese proverb says, "Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well." Gratitude is one of the most attractive of all personal attributes;

John C. Maxwell

#47. Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says.

Nikolai Gogol

#48. Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.

F Scott Fitzgerald