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Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb. -- Idries Shah
Taste it and you will get a desire for it.--Irish Proverb -- Dorien Kelly
There's trouble in every house, and some in the street.--Irish Proverb -- Dorien Kelly
We never get over our fathers, and we're not required to. (Irish Proverb) -- Martin Sheen
If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb -- Stephen King
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is there not an Arabick Proverb which goes, 'No one throws Stones at a Barren Tree'? -- Erica Jong
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important. -- Carl Reiner
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Train up a child in such a way she or he should go; even when she or he is old she or he will not depart' Proverb -- Santosh Avvannavar
That the birds of worry and care fly over you head, this you cannot change, but that they build nests in your hair, this you can prevent." - Chinese Proverb -- Anonymous
A proverb is good sense brought to a point. -- John Morley
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. -- Miguel de Cervantes
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. -- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late? -- Lewis Carroll
Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. -- George Gissing
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself. -- Thomas Szasz
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences. -- Miguel de Cervantes
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. -- Miguel de Cervantes
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
There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do. -- Soichiro Honda
For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders. -- Bill Bradley
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -- Calvin Coolidge
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, 'You can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery. -- Ashwin Sanghi
Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals. -- Plato
For like to like, the proverb saith. -- Thomas Wyatt
The proverb answers where the sermon fails. -- William Gilmore Simms
There is no proverb that is not true. -- Miguel de Cervantes
As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Rely only on yourself; it is a common proverb. -- Jean de La Fontaine
Toil, says the proverb, is the sire of fame. -- Euripides
I am always nearest to myself," says the Latin proverb. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole. -- Aristotle
May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing? -- Plato
There is no pillow so soft as clear conscience : French proverb -- Radostin Chernev
For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable. -- Thomas Wyatt
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips. -- Walter Scott
A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. -- John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain. -- Marian Keyes
Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation. -- Rebecca L. Walkowitz
In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general. -- Sasha Pivovarova
There is a significant Latin proverb; to wit: Who will guard the guards? -- Josh Billings
There is a German proverb which says that Take-it-Easy and Live-Long are brothers. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image. -- Moses ibn Ezra
A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb -- Cornelia Funke
May dawn, as the proverb goes, bring happy tidings coming from her mother night. -- Aeschylus
When there is smoke, there is fire- meaning Everything happens for a reasonTurkish proverb" -- Radostin Chernev
The Chinese have an excellent proverb: "Be modest in speech, but excel in action. -- Horace Mann
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems. -- Thomas Carlyle
It is sufficient to say, according to the proverb, that here is God's plenty. -- John Dryden
The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse. -- Plutarch
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art. -- David Hockney
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb -- Chinua Achebe
Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb. -- Patricia Wentworth
For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying. -- Aeschylus
There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide? -- Brigitte Bardot
Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it." -- Wilferd Peterson
The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. -Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE -- Tom Standage
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It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas). -- Pliny the Elder
Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It's a Hebrew proverb. -- Leo Gordon
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.â? - Chinese proverb -- Alvin Toffler
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy. -- Stephen King
There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you. -- Patricia Wentworth
I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory. -- Vincent Bugliosi
It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp. -- Plutarch
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- John F. Kennedy
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Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome. -- Anthony Trollope
There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul. -- John Calvin
And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.' -- Robert Hamer
There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom. -- Greg Jackson
Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more. -- Charles Dickens
I've often heard it said, as the common proverb goes, that a fool can teach a wise man well. -- Francois Rabelais
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it. -- Mark Twain
Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent. -- Idries Shah
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk! -- John Heywood
A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent." -- Heraclitus
As the proverb says, "a good beginning is half the business" and "to have begun well" is praised by all. -- Plato
In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.' -- Julio Cesar de Mello e Souza
And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past. -- Sarah Doudney
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of the Shaker society, it was formerly a sort of proverb in the country, that they always sent the devil to market. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it. -- Mark Twain
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth! -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh? -- Bob Dylan
There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me -- Elizabeth I
When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.' -- Faye Dunaway
The War,' said a soldier proverb, 'will last a hundred years--five years of fighting and ninety-give of winding up the barbed wire. -- Preston William Slosson
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall. -- Susan Sontag
There is a buddhist proverb which I like a lot. It says: "Every body deserves mercy". That means that every body is holy. -- Paul Virilio
The old Indian proverb holds true. Once you've cut off a person's nose, there's no point in giving him a rose to smell. -- Ravi Zacharias
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: "Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns. -- Jane Lindskold
I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep. -- Bryan Procter
A fig-tree looking on a fig-tree becometh fruitful," says the Arabian proverb. And so it is with children; their first great instructor is example. -- Samuel Smiles
Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.' -- Andre Breton
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For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down. -- Charles Dickens
Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, The dogs bark but the caravan passes on? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan. -- Margaret Mitchell
An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life. -- Terry Pratchett
Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan. -- Margaret Mitchell
Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost." -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse. -- Idries Shah
The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus "? man is a wolf to man"?... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves. -- Geoffrey Gorer
The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run. -- Idries Shah
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries. -- Agatha Christie
I spend around one hour per day on physical exercise. Exercise is a must for every chess player. As the proverb says, 'A sound mind in a sound body'. -- Humpy Koneru
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. -- Libba Bray
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. -- W. Somerset Maugham
A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth. -- Ambrose Bierce
I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school. -- Ernest Shackleton
Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion. -- Johnnetta B. Cole

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