Proverbs Quotes

17 quotations about Proverbs
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
William R. Alger · Proverbs
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon · Proverbs
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Thomas Carlyle · Proverbs
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Miguel De Cervantes · Proverbs
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel De Cervantes · Proverbs
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Proverbs
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller · Proverbs
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley · Proverbs
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
Joseph Joubert · Proverbs
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
John Keats · Proverbs
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
John Morley · Proverbs
A proverb is the child of experience.
English Proverb · Proverbs
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
German Proverb · Proverbs
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
John Russell · Proverbs
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana · Proverbs
The proverb is something musty.
William Shakespeare · Proverbs
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles · Proverbs

Authors on Proverbs

William R. Alger Francis Bacon Thomas Carlyle Miguel De Cervantes Samuel Taylor Coleridge English Proverb R. Buckminster Fuller German Proverb Aldous Huxley Joseph Joubert John Keats John Morley John Russell George Santayana William Shakespeare Sophocles