Proverbs Quotes
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… I write for this Remembering and considering what the pith is, That by remembrance of these proverbs may grow. In this tale, erst talked with a friend, I show As many of them as we could fitly find Falling to purpose, that might fall in mind.
John Heywood
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If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.
Pedro Martinez
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My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father who gave me this name and who taught me countless parables, proverbs, and principles that made me the man I am today.
Jidenna Theodore Mobisson
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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Isaac D'Israeli
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Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
Jules Verne
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Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.
William R. Alger
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If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to lead. Let us remember that the Bible contains two proverbs we cannot afford to forget. The first is ""Man does not live by bread alone"" and the second is ""Where there is no vision, the people perish.""
Charles Luckman
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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
James Howell
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'Wal'r, my boy,' replied the Captain, 'in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of.'
Charles Dickens
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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
William R. Alger
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon
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I read the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs every day.
Jerry Falwell
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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
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I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.
Jane Austen
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A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn't quite say.
Andrew Hudgins