Proverb Quotes

Proverb Quote of the day

Love me when I least deserve it, because that's when I really need it.

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

The most difficult battles in life are those we fight within. - Old Chinese Proverb

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

There is, to be sure, no evil without something good.

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

There is no fool like an old fool.

When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.

If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?

As long as there is life there is hope.

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards?

There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art.

The virtuous man delights in this world and he delights in the next

The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain.

Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it."

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.

According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well.

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

To rule yourself is the ultimate power

Every one excels in something in which another fails.

Half a loaf is better than none.

Life without a friend is death without a witnesse. [Life without a friend is death without a witness.]

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

Praise not the day until evening has come, a woman until she is burnt, a sword until it is tried, a maiden until she is married, ice until it has been crossed, beer until it has been drunk.

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear.

I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!

I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.

God provides the food, men provide the cooks.

The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King.