Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
William Temple
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty
It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.
Tim Tebow
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
St. Jerome
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
Cleveland Abbe
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 all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.
L. M. Montgomery
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
William R. Alger
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
James Howell
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
Leo Rosten
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Isaac Disraeli
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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