Sorry Proverb Quotes

#1. A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.

Anonymous

#2. proverb attributed to Seneca that says, "A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

Anonymous

#3. Every one to his taste, one man loves the priest and another the priest's wife, as the proverb says.

Nikolai Gogol

#4. A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)

Habeeb Akande

#5. Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.

Idries Shah

#6. 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

#7. I thought of the old proverb: Where there are three physicians, there are two atheists.

Regina O'Melveny

#8. An old Croatian proverb Adam had learned in college applied here: The hunchback sees the hump of others - never his own.

Harlan Coben

#9. A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
- Chinese proverb

Alvin Toffler

#10. Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow.

Idries Shah

#11. Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb.

Leo Gordon

#12. But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

John Heywood

#13. I hate waiting on torture; an Arabic proverb says, "Waiting on torture is worse than torture." I can only confirm this proverb.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi

#14. Give a man a proverb
and he'll muse for a moment.
Teach a man to find the verb in every proverb
and he'll walk in wisdom for a lifetime.

Cameron Semmens

#15. The road to self-deception is narrow to begin with, but there's always someone ready to broaden it out, for as the proverb says, self-deception is like eating or scratching, it's all a matter of beginning.

Jose Saramago