Top 100 Quotes About Proverb
#1. A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.
~Welsh Proverb~
Elise McCune
#4. A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.
Anonymous
#6. The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.
Marian Keyes
#7. 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
#8. The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.
Idries Shah
#9. 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
#10. The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'.
Saki
#11. Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.
Patricia Wentworth
#12. You need to take care of the root in order to heal the tree. - Gullah Proverb
Patti Callahan Henry
#13. A Saigon Proverb: Doe la chine tran, neu buon la thua. Life is a struggle in which sorrow leads to defeat.
Kim Thuy
#14. And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'
Robert Hamer
#15. Whoever said ignorance is bliss must have died a horrible death with a really surprised look on his face.
Lisa Shearin
#16. Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#17. A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb
Matthew Polly
#18. Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.
Idries Shah
#19. proverb attributed to Seneca that says, "A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.
Anonymous
#20. 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.
Richard Chenevix Trench
#21. 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
#22. Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says.
Nikolai Gogol
#23. 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
#25. 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
#27. It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." ~ Chinese Proverb
Tim Baker
#28. ...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
#29. 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
#30. A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.
Moses Ibn Ezra
#31. Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
Leigh Bardugo
#32. 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
#33. There is an end to every journey.
Even life will come to an end one moment in time.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#34. Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit. (A wise man does not urinate against the wind.) Roman proverb
L. Michael Hall
#35. 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
#36. A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)
Habeeb Akande
#38. Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.
Idries Shah
#39. 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
#40. I do not think you are wrong for living the life you were born in. A dog must be a dog and a wolf must be a wolf, that is the proverb in my county
Chris Cleave
#41. Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Terry Pratchett
#42. In the words of a Chinese proverb, "The wind always destroys the tallest tree in the forest.
Chai Ling
#44. I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.
Regina O'Melveny
#45. Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.
Idries Shah
#46. The cave you fear to enter, goes the ancient proverb, holds the treasure you seek.
Marty Neumeier
#47. Now that the barn has burned down, I can see the moon.
- Persian proverb
Samantha Combs
#49. The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.
Aristotle.
#50. 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
#51. Conscience is the dog that can't bite, but never stop barking.
Proverb
#52. Children are the future of a nation. If the children are intelligent, the country will be prosperous.
Thai proverb
Elaine Russell
#53. Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. There's an Arabian proverb that says if you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end.
John C. Maxwell
#55. Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong.
Zen Proverb
#56. Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. - Japanese proverb
Philip Houston
#58. As the Chinese proverb says, 'Those who say it can't be done shouldn't interrupt those who are doing it.
Mollie Culligan
#59. An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: The hunchback sees the hump of others - never his own.
Harlan Coben
#60. He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.
Confucius
#61. THE BIRD AND THE WATER
A bird which has not heard of fresh water
Dips his beak in salt-water year after year.
(Anwar-i-Suhaili)
Idries Shah
#62. The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. - Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE
Tom Standage
#65. The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next
Gautama Buddha
#66. As he told Marshall, "things went so smoothly that I was a little worried, and remembered Stalin's proverb, 'an amiable bear is more dangerous than a hostile one.
D.K.R. Crosswell
#67. If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in. - Hindu Proverb.
Rudyard Kipling
#69. Always remember the proverb: "This too shall pass." Your negative feelings won't last forever, there's a light at the end of every tunnel. It might not happen today or tomorrow, but you'll feel better eventually.
Paulo Coelho
#70. For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.
Jane Lindskold
#71. The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.
Susan Sontag
#72. THE HEAVENS
To the mallet of the Highest Mind
The heavens are the smallest possible ball.
(Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)
Idries Shah
#73. If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
Dogen
#74. He who lives an immoral life dies an immoral death. - Corsican proverb
Daniel Silva
#75. 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
#76. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
- Chinese proverb
Alvin Toffler
#77. As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
Plato
#78. Appa enjoys our current prosperity with considerable hesitation, as if it were undeserved. He's given to quoting a proverb that says wealth shouldn't strike suddenly like a visitation, but instead grow gradually like a tree.
Vivek Shanbhag
#79. I'd like to find the guy who invented the proverb 'go with the flow' and lead him to an ocean full of hungry sharks. And see how he would flow. I'd really like to know.
Dee Lestari
#80. Ukrainian proverb: The fear of death takes away the joy of living
Andy Szpuk
#81. There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?
Josh Billings
#82. Never forget a man who holds a secret holds power. A Chinese proverb says: "If women want to keep a secret, one of them must die." What a splendid prospect, I thought! So far I have not heard one single encouraging word about this job.
John Eppler
#83. The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
Mark Twain
#84. Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence
Unknown
#85. There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#86. No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.
Idries Shah
#87. The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#88. 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
#90. Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.
Idries Shah
#93. If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write.
Idries Shah
#94. You educate a boy, and you're educating an individual. You educate a girl, and you're educating a village.
-African Proverb
Nicholas D. Kristof
#95. When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.
Jodi Picoult
#96. Ancient Chinese proverb," he said, heading toward the kitchen.
"He who butt-fucks all night wakes up with sore asshole.
Brad Boney
#97. May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
Plato
#98. Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece.
Plutarch
#99. Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.
Lao-Tzu
