Proverbial Quotes

Proverbial Quote of the day

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.

The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'a long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

I've been at stand-up 26 years now: After a while, you get as jaded as the proverbial gynecologist who no longer enjoys drugging and violating his patients.

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that's opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.

There is an old saying which, from its truth, has become proverbial, that friendships should be immortal, enmities mortal.

Real estate is the closest thing to the proverbial pot of gold.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbsial disgrace.

My interest in the sciences started with mathematics in the very beginning, and later with chemistry in early high school and the proverbial home chemistry set.

Life's not easy for anyone. Everyone has scars they're afraid to show and we all get slammed headfirst into a proverbial locker from time to time by someone bigger and badder.

There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

Lendl has remained throughout as calm as the proverbial iceberg.

That proverbial saying, "Ill news goes quick and far.

To stumble twice against the same stone, is a proverbial disgrace. [Lat., Culpa enim illa, bis ad eundem, vulgari reprehensa proverbio est.]

I was feeling as sick as the proverbial donkey.

Placing the state in charge of moral principles is equivalent to putting the proverbial fox in charge of the chicken coop.

Most people stop looking when they find the proverbial needle in the haystack. I would continue looking to see if there were other needles.

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

I hitched my wagon to an electron rather than the proverbial star.

Unproductive worry - like Parkinson's proverbial law - tends to expand to fill the time available.

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

The proverbial notion of historical distance consists in our having lost ninety-five of every hundred original facts, so the remaining ones can be arranged however one likes.

The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

As the Tories know, the problem with setting yourself up as a shining example for others to follow is that when you get caught out, that proverbial substance really hits the fan.

The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.

If ever there was a proverbial truth, it's the more you give, the more you get. Give and start experiencing a life of fulfillment!

I am grateful that I have rights in the proverbial public square - but, as a practical matter, my most cherished rights are those that I possess in my bedroom and hospital room and death chamber.

The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.

Don’t despise any experience. With every experience, you increase in knowledge and wisdom.

Study to learn, do not study to pass".

The darkness is needed for the light to shine

Thank God with endless when puts you in the crisis because will tests you many examinations one of them is to identify your enemies and allies

Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name

The fire spread from the small cinder then the flames will become strong

No matter how long the journey takes, don’t give up. Keep travelling onwards.

Love many, trust a few, and learn to paddle your own canoe.

Hip-hop...has been the proverbial key that’s opened the door for me to roam this breathtaking planet.

Do not drown yourself into fantasy, whatever you can do, do it now, do not wait for tomorrow to come.

When the Lord's request comes, will remove all other demands.

when you fall into darkness do not spend all your energy and light rather than to remain in darkness.

The constant talking didn't bother her, for cats use their voices to say 'here I am, where are you?' and this seemed to be the primary intention of most human conversation.

Feed a squirrel and he'll leave you alone every day.