Proverb Quotes
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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
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Here is an old Oriental proverb: *A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.* It is difficult to anticipate just how a situation will develop in every detail until you take a step forward and try out your present equipment. Then, if weaknesses appear, you will have clues as to how to strengthen your resources. No scheme or plan is perfect. Perfection is a process, not an end.
Napoleon Hill
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Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. "You aren't nearly through this adventure yet," he added, and that was pretty true as well.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.
Plutarch
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As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all.
Plato
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The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.
Idries Shah
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And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past.
Sarah Doudney
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
Plato
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Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.
Charles Dickens
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Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.
Margaret Mitchell
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May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
Plato
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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Lewis Carroll
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Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus — man is a wolf to man—... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.
Geoffrey Gorer
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
George Gissing
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There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.
John Calvin
