Top 100 Quotes About Proverbs
#1. Cut out some of your "important social engagements," and make your home the center of your social life. God will honor you, and your children will grow up to call you "blessed" [Proverbs 31:28].
Billy Graham
#3. It is not how much you are paid that matters. But how much you get done that is most important.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#4. The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him.
Anonymous
#7. Proverbs 19:15-16 15 Lazy people sleep soundly, but idleness leaves them hungry. 16 Keep the commandments and keep your life; despising them leads to death.
Anonymous
#8. The man who loves wisdom brings joy to his father. - Proverbs 29:3
Gary Chapman
#9. A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. (Proverbs 15:1)
Anonymous
#10. The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'.
Saki
#12. Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#13. The poor and the low have their way of expressing the last facts of philosophy as well as you. "Blessed be nothing," and "The worse things are, the better they are," are proverbs which express the transcendentalism of common life.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb
Matthew Polly
#16. Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
William Temple
#17. Our motives and thoughts ultimately influence our actions. Jesus repeatedly emphasized the power of good thoughts and proper motives: 'Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not'
In Proverbs we read, 'For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#19. I quit being a VS model to be a Proverbs 31 wife.
Kylie Bisutti
#20. The seeds of good deeds become a tree of life; a wise person wins friends. - Proverbs 11:30
Gary Chapman
#21. The heartfelt counsel of a friend is sweet as perfume and incense. - Proverbs 27:9
Gary Chapman
#22. She is clothed in strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.
Anonymous
#24. Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
W. Somerset Maugham
#25. Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#26. Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
Edward Abbey
#27. Better to be patient than powerful; better to have self-control than to conquer a city. - Proverbs 16:32
Gary Chapman
#28. Our religious systems have taught us to "train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6) I couldn't disagree more. How about, "feed a child what it needs, so when it gets grows up, it will "be" its own unique unpredictably creative self.
Christopher Zzenn Loren
#29. We aren't going to choose paths of wisdom if we don't trust the One who has marked out those paths for us. Fear of the Lord is trust in the Lord
Lydia Brownback
#30. Some people come into your life as blessings, and others come in your life as lessons. You are both to me.
Christy Pastore
#31. Proverbs 22:3 says that "the prudent man sees the evil and hides himself." Sometimes physically removing yourself from a situation will help maintain boundaries. You can do this to replenish yourself physically, emotionally, and spiritually after you have given to your limit, as Jesus often did.
Henry Cloud
#33. PROVERBS 15. d A soft answer turns away wrath, but e a harsh word stirs up anger.
Anonymous
#34. Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies. The heart of her husband safely trusts her; so he will have no lack of gain. She does him good and not evil all the days of her life. PROVERBS 31:10-12
Stormie O'martian
#35. As [a man] thin-keth in his heart, so is he (Proverbs 23:7 KJV, italics added).
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#36. The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
William Penn
#37. Indeed, it has to be said that the percentage of old human sayings and proverbs that are actually true is very far from 100 percent. Seems it may be less important that it be true than that it rhyme, or show alliteration or the like. What goes around comes around: really? What does this mean?
Kim Stanley Robinson
#39. Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#41. Scripture said that "pride goes before fall". Just let pride go alone. Don't go in its company, else fall pursues both of you!
Israelmore Ayivor
#42. Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.
Idries Shah
#43. ...consider how [the Proverbs] define success: the establishment of righteousness, justice and equity. (pg. 95)
Ellen F. Davis
#45. Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#46. Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth.
Mac Barnett
#47. Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ... and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
Francis Bacon
#48. Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
Joseph Joubert
#49. Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
John Bunyan
#50. Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.
George Eliot
#51. Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.
Anonymous
#52. Better a dry crust of bread with peace and quiet than a house full of feasting with strife.
King David
#53. Among the Ibo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten. Okoye
Chinua Achebe
#54. If your enemies are hungry, give them food to eat. If they are thirsty, give them water to drink. - Proverbs 25:21
Gary Chapman
#55. As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)
Anonymous
#56. A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree. PROVERBS 11:28
Rick Warren
#57. Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley
#58. The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs
he will give the devil his due.
William Shakespeare
#59. Generative metaphors and proverbs both derive their power from a clever substitution: They substitute something easy to think about for something difficult.
Chip Heath
#60. Only when the last tree has been cut down and the last river has dried up will man realise that reciting red indian proverbs makes you sound like a fucking muppet.
Banksy
#61. God reveals Himself to us through Scripture and His creation; if we can't discern His will, the revelation serves no-purpose. Thus, God has given us knowledge (Proverbs 2:6). Since humans have limited capacity for all knowledge, He has also given us the ultimate gift--faith.
Samuel C. Tseng
#62. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.
Charles A. Beard
#63. Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#64. In abundance of words, offense will not be lacking but one who restrains his lips is wise.
Anonymous
#65. Do you know Eastern proverbs?
"Unskilled guns, but ... The more guns, the likely they will hit ... "
I've got plenty of Akuma to go around.
Katsura Hoshino
#66. A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)
Joyce Meyer
#68. Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
Leo Rosten
#69. The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is given its ultimate fulfillment as an expression of the wisdom of Christ.
Graeme Goldsworthy
#71. Proverbs 14:22-24 22 If you plan to do evil, you will be lost; if you plan to do good, you will receive unfailing love and faithfulness. 23 Work brings profit, but mere talk leads to poverty!
Anonymous
#72. People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.
Idries Shah
#73. Proverbs 15:20-21 20 Sensible children bring joy to their father; foolish children despise their mother. 21 Foolishness brings joy to those with no sense; a sensible person stays on the right path.
Anonymous
#74. Do not withhold good from those who deserve it when it's in your power to help them. - PROVERBS 3:27 (NLT)
Guideposts Books
#75. He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs
Solomon
#76. He had a penchant for idioms, sayings, proverbs and the like; some of which he invented or used in a way that was incomprehensible to me,
Javier Marias
#77. words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Proverbs 12:18, NIV)
Lisa Bevere
#78. An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up. - Proverbs 12:25
Sue Birdseye
#79. The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.
Charles Spurgeon
#80. Proverbs 19:8-9 8 To acquire wisdom is to love yourself; people who cherish understanding will prosper. 9 A false witness will not go unpunished, and a liar will be destroyed.
Anonymous
#82. He who has a generous eye will be blessed, for he gives of his bread to the poor (Proverbs 22:9).
Anonymous
#83. For as he thinks in his heart, so is he. PROVERBS 23:7
Joyce Meyer
#84. I like the old wisdom
puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.
Mason Cooley
#85. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they who indulge in it shall eat the fruit of it [for death or life]. Proverbs 18:21
Joyce Meyer
#86. He sleeps for himself and dreams for others.
Anonymous
#87. Proverbs 19:10-12 10 It isn't right for a fool to live in luxury or for a slave to rule over princes! 11 Sensible people control their temper; they earn respect by overlooking wrongs. 12 The king's anger is like a lion's roar, but his favor is like dew on the grass.
Anonymous
#88. T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets, William Blake's "Proverbs of Hell," and Walt Whitman's Song of Myself. I
Robin Rinaldi
#90. Proverbs 23:7 says that as a person thinks in his heart, so is he.
Joyce Meyer
#92. For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: It is unlucky to marry in May.
Ovid
#93. Mind, Sancho, I do not say that a proverb aptly brought in is objectionable; but to pile up and string together proverbs at random makes conversation dull and vulgar.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#94. Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
William R. Alger
#95. Proverbs 25:28 Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control.
Patrick Schwenk
#97. He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart. In
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. In the same way, people who sleep when they should be working are testing God. Because God promised to take care of them, they assume that God will find a way. But in Proverbs, God told them to work: "Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth" (Proverbs 10:4).
Martin Luther
#99. Steer your boat with justice: forge
A tongue on truth's anvil.
Pindar
#100. Proverbs 1:5 states, "Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance." Success is born out of the willingness to listen and learn and to observe and absorb.
Antipas L. Harris
