Proverbs Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Proverbs.
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“Book of Proverbs”
“Scoundrel maxim.”
“Much matter decocted into few words.”
“Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked.”
“A proverb and a byword among all people.”
“I can tell thee where that saying was born.”
“No hay refran que no sea verdadero.”
“Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.”
“[A proverb is] one man's wit, and all men's wisdom.”
“Les maximes des hommes décèlent leur cœur.”
“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long and wise experience.”
“The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs.”
“Proverb”
“The Devil is the enemy of proverbs ("Der Teuffel ist den Sprichwortten feindt").”
“The wise man learns from the mistakes of others, the fool must learn from his own.”
“Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions.”
“His many years had reduced and polished him the way water smooths and polishes a stone or generations of men polish a proverb.”
“All the world over, proverbs run in pairs, and pull both ways: for the most part one neutralizes, by contradiction, the other.”
“Proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”