Top 45 Old Proverb Quotes
#1. But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
John Heywood
#2. I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.
Regina O'Melveny
#3. There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."
Sylvester Stallone
#4. Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
Stephen King
#5. They usually spent the night apart, though in the morning they woke twined more often than not, as though in sleep in their bodies sought each other. In wine and dream comes truth: the old proverb slipped through his mind unbidden.
Melissa Scott
#6. The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#7. If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.
Harry A. Blackmun
#9. There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.
John Calvin
#11. Quoting an old proverb: "An empty cart rattles loudly." she said. meaning, One who lacks substance boasts loudest.
Alan Brennert
#12. The old proverb was now made good, the mountain had brought forth a mouse.
Plutarch
#13. This is the derivation of that old Yankee proverb that if you can sell a book, you can move sixty tons of weaponry three hundred miles in winter
Sarah Vowell
#14. America is not fighting to win a war. We are fighting to give an application to an old Greek proverb, which is that the purpose of war is not to annihilate an enemy but to get him to mend his ways. And we are confident we can get the enemy to mend his.
Arthur Goldberg
#15. There is a proverb my grandmother used to repeat: Old sins have long shadows.
Agatha Christie
#17. When a bird flies too high, it loses its song. -- Old Chinese Proverb
Rebecca Yount
#18. Train up a child in such a way she or he should go; even when she or he is old she or he will not depart' Proverb
Santosh Avvannavar
#20. There's an old German proverb to the effect that "fear makes the wolf bigger than he is," and that is true.
Donald J. Trump
#22. Afghanistan is not only the mirror of the Afghans: it is the mirror of the world. 'If you do not like the image in the mirror, do not break the mirror, break your face,' says an old Persian proverb.
Ahmed Rashid
#23. You know there's an old african proverb that i made up. if you want to go quickly, go alone. if you want to go far, go together. we need to go far, quickly
Al Gore
#24. Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. (Quoting an old adage)
Elizabeth Gilbert
#25. The lion and the lamb may lie down together, but the lamb won't get much sleep. - An old desert proverb
Melissa McPhail
#26. An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)
Idries Shah
#27. A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.
Ambrose Bierce
#28. Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies.
Jeffrey Friedland
#29. Tell the truth and . . .run!"
Old Croatian proverb
Teresa Toten
#30. The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
Marian Keyes
#31. There's an old Japanese proverb - to wait for luck is the same as waiting for one's death. We make our own luck, my old friend." "I
David Leadbeater
#32. An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: The hunchback sees the hump of others - never his own.
Harlan Coben
#33. An old Ukrainian proverb warns, "A tale that begins with a beet will end with the devil." That is a risk we have to take.
Tom Robbins
#34. You know that African proverb 'When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground'? When Alice dies," Tom said, "it will be like a library burning.
Marja Mills
#35. It was an old kender proverb - Don't change color to match the walls. Look like you belong and the walls will change color to match you.
Margaret Weis
#36. As the old French proverb warns: He who fears to suffer suffers from fear.
Debra Ollivier
#37. There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.
David Hockney
#38. He remembered the old Chinese proverb, sometimes ascribed to Confucius: If you sit by the river for long enough, the body of your enemy will float by.
Salman Rushdie
#39. There is an old African proverb that says if you want to go quickly, go alone, if you want to go far, go together. We have to go far, quickly, and that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we are facing and how we have to work to solve it.
Al Gore
#40. There is an old Arabic proverb, 'When the king puts the poet on his payroll, he cuts off the tongue of the poet', so throughout the ages, people in power have liked to control music, they used to throw songwriters in jail throughout history, and were assassinated.
Pete Seeger
#41. There is an old Chinese proverb: 'A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
Ashwin Sanghi
#42. It's something I call an invisible thread. It is, as the old Chinese proverb tells us, something that connects two people who are destined to meet, regardless of time and place and circumstance. Some legends call it the red string of fate; others, the thread of destiny.
Laura Schroff
#43. There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom.
Greg Jackson
#44. The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb
Camron Wright
#45. An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb
Chinua Achebe
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