Proverbs Quotes
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One of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.
W. Somerset Maugham -
The French have a saying: 'Time will not consecrate that in which she has been ignored.' Bear this admonition ever in mind for it is deeply true. And so, while I say we will neither hasten nor delay, let us not delay. All of which is summed up in the proverbs :
Louis Sullivan
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The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.
Beth Moore -
The woman described in Proverbs 31 is not some ideal that exists out there; she is present in each one of us when we do even the smallest things with valor
Rachel Grace Held -
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty -
… 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 -
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
S. Ansky
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley -
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 -
If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.
Pedro Martinez -
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Isaac D'Israeli -
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
Jules Verne -
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 -
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 -
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
James Howell -
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 -
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.
William R. Alger -
'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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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon -
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 -
I read the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs every day.
Jerry Falwell -
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