Quotes of Proverb - somelinesforyou

“ The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. ”

- Sir Walter Scott

“ Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. ”

- William R. Alger

“ The proverb is something musty. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it. ”

- John Keats

“ Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you. ”

- Nicholson Baker

“ One good turn deserves another. ”

- English Saying

“ Seeing is different than being told. ”

- African proverb

“ For whom the Lord liveth he correcteth. ”

- Bible

“ Laughter holding both his sides. ”

- Thomas Middleton

“ You cannot know wine by the barrell. ”

- George Herbert

“ As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. ”

- Bible

“ Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. ”

- John Milton

“ Felds hath eyen, and wode have eres. ”

- Geoffrey Chaucer

“ A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful. ”

- Bible

“ If ye have faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove. ”

- Bible

“ Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak. ”

- George Louis Leclerc de Buffon

“ Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner. ”

- Aristotle

“ Young in limbs, in judgment old. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ One swallow does not make spring. ”

- Aristotle

“ For evil news rides post, while good news baits. ”

- Thomas Middleton

“ Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion. ”

- George Herbert

“ Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment. ”

- Bible

“ For the love of money is the root of all evil. ”

- Bible

“ A faire wife and a frontire Castle breede quarrels. ”

- George Herbert

“ A righteous man regardeth the life of this beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel. ”

- Bible

“ A proverb is good sense brought to a point. ”

- John Morley

“ A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. ”

- R. Buckminster Fuller
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