Proverbially Quotes

#1. Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. The sons of rich men are proverbially wild.

Agatha Christie

#3. The memory of the financial community is proverbially and distressingly short.

Benjamin Graham

#4. The quickest way to a man's heart,' said the instructor, 'is proverbially through his stomach. But if you want to get into his brain, I recommend the eye-socket.

K.J. Parker

#5. Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#6. Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.

Arthur Eddington

#7. As widowers proverbially marry again, so a man with the habit of friendship always finds new friends.

George Santayana

#8. From Washington, proverbially "the city of distances," through all its cities, states, and territories, it is a country of beginnings, of projects, of designs, and expectations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. The thumbs have been pricked, at least proverbially.

Chloe Neill

#10. Women are proverbially credulous.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#11. With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.

William James

#12. Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

Epes Sargent

#13. It is said, proverbially, that happy is the doctor who is called in when the disease is on its way out.

Francois Rabelais

#14. A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Alexander Smith

#15. Sometimes, we get so used to pain we begin to enjoy it, then we do all we can to prolong it.

Tayo Emmanuel

#16. The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous.

Thomas Paine

#17. History is written by those who hang heroes.

Robert The Bruce

#18. I'm really an actor first. I'd love to do more straight plays.

Shuler Hensley

#19. When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act." And they do calm down.

Emil Cioran

#20. I've lived the life of a 35-year-old since I was 18.

Megan Fox

#21. He who conquers self conquers all.

Swami Vivekananda

#22. Men go and come, but earth abides.

George R. Stewart