Top 100 Quotes About Proverb
#1. A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
W. Somerset Maugham
#3. 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
#4. An Italian proverb says: The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.
Ambrose Bierce
#5. Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Lewis Carroll
#6. When the father helps the son, both smile. When the son helps the father, both cry.
~ Chinese proverb
Simon Brooke
#7. There's trouble in every house, and some in the street.
Irish Proverb
Dorien Kelly
#8. Your Gods and my Gods - do you or I know which are the stronger? - Native Proverb.
Rudyard Kipling
#9. In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general.
Sasha Pivovarova
#10. The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease. French Proverb
Lawrence W. Gold
#11. The answer to a fool is silence. (Proverb)
Idries Shah
#12. I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
Agatha Christie
#13. The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb
Camron Wright
#14. If it no go so, it go near so. - Jamaican proverb
Marlon James
#15. The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them; or as the Italian proverb says, The man that lives by hope, will die by despair.
Joseph Addison
#17. For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.
Thomas Wyatt
#18. If the bird hadn't sung, it wouldn't have been shot. Japanese Proverb
Bohdi Sanders
#19. An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found.
George Augustus Henry Sala
#20. 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
#21. Where are the fish, though?"
"In the sea they say, in the boats we pray," said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb.
Rudyard Kipling
#22. Early to rise,
early to bed.
A proverb worth following
until one is dead.
Ashwin Sanghi
#24. When you're clumsy, even your pubic hairs get in the way." - Traditional Russian proverb
Unknown
#25. Nothing is what it seems.
Favoured Pashtu proverb of Jan Fishan Khan.
Tahir Shah
#26. In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'
Julio Cesar De Mello E Souza
#27. An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb
Chinua Achebe
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.
John Gerard
#31. 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
#32. I followed the words of the famous Russian proverb: Doveryai, no proveryai (or, in English, 'Trust, but verify').
Randi Minetor
#33. Two reeds drink from the same stream. One is hollow, the other is sugarcane. - MOROCCAN PROVERB
Tahir Shah
#34. Wealth Is Like Dung, Useful Only When Spread" - Chinese Proverb JIGGS
B.K. Froman
#35. There is a proverb that if a peasant woman has no troubles she will buy a pig.
Anton Chekhov
#36. Is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'?
Erica Jong
#37. If you must play, decide upon three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time. Chinese Proverb
Scott Lynch
#38. Q: How can I help myself?
A: By remembering the proverb: 'The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service', from Saadi.
Idries Shah
#39. There are two parts to the equation: feel good + take action. The ancient Sufi proverb says; Trust in Allah, but first tie your camel to a post.
Andrew Matthews
#40. May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night.
Aeschylus
#41. There is a proverb my grandmother used to repeat: Old sins have long shadows.
Agatha Christie
#42. The proverb that says that the empty mind is the devil's workshop is just nonsense. Just the opposite is the truth: the occupied mind is the devil's workshop!
Osho
#43. I don't know who first said it, but this proverb is something I believe: A lion leading a lot of sheep can defeat a sheep leading many lions. The important part is that I must decide when I am a lion and when I must be a sheep. I don't believe you are always one or the other.
Yao Ming
#44. Ubi dubium ibi libertas: Where there is doubt, there is freedom. LATIN PROVERB
Carl Sagan
#45. When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice. ~Cherokee Proverb
Meredith Allard
#46. If you live to seek revenge, dig a grave for two. ANCIENT JEWISH PROVERB
Daniel Silva
#47. We never get over our fathers, and we're not required to. (Irish Proverb)
Martin Sheen
#48. For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
Bill Bradley
#49. There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil: it is anger, envy, greed, arrogance, jealousy, resentment, lies. The other is good: it is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy, truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed. - Cherokee proverb Spanning
Angela Stevens
#51. As a Turkish proverb says
it was going to be like digging a well with a needle.
Terry Hayes
#52. When a bird flies too high, it loses its song. -- Old Chinese Proverb
Rebecca Yount
#53. Good things come to those who wait. English Proverb
Bey Deckard
#54. Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
Anthony Trollope
#55. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books which he has merely skimmed, lapping at them, as the classic proverb puts it; "As the dogs drink of Nilus." Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#56. 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
#57. A French proverb says 'Wait until it is night before saying that it has been a fine day.' To tell it more precise, wait till the clock strikes the midnight!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."
Heraclitus
#59. Taste it and you will get a desire for it.
Irish Proverb
Dorien Kelly
#60. Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
George Gissing
#61. It was a proverb. Or half of one. Water will wear away stone, but it won't cook supper. Everything has its own strengths.
Ann Leckie
#62. I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person.
Barbara Pym
#63. We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love ... and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal Proverb
A.B. Shepherd
#64. A Turkish proverb says the one who speaks truth would be expelled from nine villages. This is true; but there always exist the tenth which embraces the truth! The tenth is the answer of the highness to the lowness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#65. 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
#66. It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
Plutarch
#67. It is a true proverb, "Look for a thing where you dropped it, it is there." So look for Christ where you lost Him, for He has not gone away.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#68. There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Thomas Carlyle
#69. He who makes no mistakes never makes anything.
-- English Proverb
Andrew Szlachetko
#70. The proverb says that 'well begun is half done.' But the other half is harder and more necessary,-to get a thing well ended.
Henry Van Dyke
#71. The War,' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years
five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire.
Preston William Slosson
#72. I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'.
Humpy Koneru
#73. A crow starves sitting," she said eventually. "But finds flying," Erlendur completed the proverb.
Arnaldur Indridason
#74. It is a fool who lives his life believing the waves upon which he sails shall remember him. The seas know nothing. This makes them beautiful. And this makes them terrible. - DREYLING PROVERB, ORIGIN
Robert Jackson Bennett
#75. Quote: a banal proverb that is considered profound when uttered by a celebrity.
Bauvard
#76. There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
Idries Shah
#77. There is a proverb which says "As the soul is at three so it is at one hundred,
Yei Theodora Ozaki
#78. There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me
Elizabeth I
#79. Since good intentions and sympathy for others often led people into trouble, the Chinese people had invented a new proverb that said, 'The more you do, the more trouble you have; the less you do, the less trouble you have. If you do nothing whatever, you will become a model citizen.
Nien Cheng
#80. Proverb: The caterpillar thought the world was ending, then it turned into a butterfly,
Marian Phair
#81. I had rather face wild beasts and diseases than the perils of civilization.
There is a proverb, which Tom was kind enough not to voice: be careful what you wish for. Unfortunately, not only did I get it, but so did those around me.
Marie Brennan
#82. 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
#83. Man has less than he suspects of: Time, Friends, Hopes, Qualities.
Proverb
Idries Shah
#84. Gratitude is the heart's memory. French Proverb
Candy Paull
#85. We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
Jane Austen
#86. That was a lesson everyone (every human?) learned before puberty, not to let reality seem diminished by fiction. As the proverb went, It's bad enough comparing yourself to Isaac Newton without comparing yourself to Kimball Kinnison.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#87. You see, calling things by their proper names is the beginning of wisdom. That's a Chinese proverb and they invented writing. The wisdom, in case you're wondering, is that when you get names right, you narrow the gap between you and the thing.
Zia Haider Rahman
#88. When you see a new trail, or a footprint you do not know, follow it to the point of knowing. - SIOUX PROVERB
Jeff Brown
#89. There is a Japanese proverb that translates as 'the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
Jim Korkis
#90. Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
Plato
#91. A turquoise given by a loving hand carries with it happiness and good fortune."
Arabic proverb
Judy Hall
#92. IF YOU CHASE TWO RABBITS ... YOU WILL NOT CATCH EITHER ONE. RUSSIAN PROVERB
Anonymous
#93. Old Burmese (now Myanmar) proverb: Burmese proverb: Government is one of the five evils along with fire, floods, thieves and enemies.
Jeffrey Friedland
#94. 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
#95. There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
Walter Scott
#96. There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.
Patricia Wentworth
#97. All cats are the same in the dark, says the proverb. But it certainly did not apply to people, with them it was just the opposite. During the day they were all alike, running in their well-defined ways. At night they changed beyond recognition.
Jerzy Kosinski
#98. Jade must be chiseled before it can be considered a gem -- Chinese Proverb
Lars Guignard
#99. 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
#100. Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'
Andre Breton
