Proverb Quotes

The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round.

~ Idries Shah

Rust through washing never became white.

~ Idries Shah

No surgeon can treat the wounds of the tongue.

~ Idries Shah

If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.

~ Idries Shah

If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower’.

~ Idries Shah

Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.

~ Idries Shah

The mine is always bigger than the gem.

~ Idries Shah

Whoever has not first dug a well, should not steal a minaret.

~ Idries Shah

One lie will keep out forty truths.

~ Idries Shah

If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn’t say the fox killed the brains. You’d say the fox offed the goose.

~ Vladimir Lorchenkov

It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.

~ Duop Chak Wuol

Without shame, without conscience.

~ Chris Galford

Human beings say, It never rains but it pours. This is not very apt, for it frequently does rain without pouring. The rabbits' proverb is better expressed. They say, One cloud feels lonely: and indeed it is true that the sky will soon be overcast.

~ Richard Adams

Give a man a proverb,and he’ll muse for a moment.Teach a man to find the verb in every proverb,and he’ll walk in wisdom for a lifetime.

~ Cameron Semmens

A good night's sleep counts healthy sheep.

~ Brian Spellman

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

When the cat gets hungry, it starts to steal.

~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

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

~ Brian Spellman

Gossip till the cows come home.

~ John Le Carré