Top Proverbs Quotes
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
William R. Alger
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 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 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
L. M. Montgomery 
Cleveland Abbe 
St. Jerome 
William R. Alger 
J. Paul Getty 
John Bunyan All Proverbs Quotes
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
William R. Alger 
67% of people like this quote
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
59% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
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
56% of people like this quote
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
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
William Temple
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
Miguel De Cervantes
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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
James Howell
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