Proverb Quotes

The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others. (Pliny the Elder)
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp. View quote
Plutarch
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame. View quote
Euripides
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. View quote
Thomas Szasz
There is a southern proverb fine words butter no parsnips. View quote
Walter Scott
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him. So it is in travelling a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge. View quote
Samuel Johnson
There's an old African proverb that says "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We have to go far - quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it. View quote
Al Gore
The man who will live above his present circumstances, is in great danger of soon living beneath them or as the Italian proverb says, The man that lives by hope, will die by despair. View quote
Joseph Addison
Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa-Who knows most, knows least. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There are more ways of killing a cat than drowning it in butter; but this is the sort of thing (as the proverb indicates) we overlook: there are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. (J. L. Austin)
Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beauseant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost!" View quote
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. View quote
George Gissing
There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul. View quote
John Calvin
The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse." View quote
Plutarch
Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece." View quote
Plutarch
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth. (Pliny the Elder)
If, in each hour, a man could learn a single fragment of some branch of knowledge, a single rule of some mechanical art, a single pleasing story or proverb (the acquisition of which would require no effort), what a vast stock of learning he might lay by. Seneca is therefore right when he says: "Life is long, if we know how to use it." It is consequently of importance that we understand the art of making the very best use of our lives. View quote
John Amos Comenius
Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The proverb "Love him who loves you" is an ancient fact. View quote
Petrarch
True is the proverb, one's hair will change before one's habits. View quote
Petrarch