Proverbs Quotes

Life - with or without softener- is hard

~ Kate Papas

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

To some life is a complaint, to some it is a competition and to some it is a conquest.

~ Amit Kalantri

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

~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

~ Thomas Pynchon

Every flower can flourish with fertile soil and water.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

a burning light(light having oil) will burn to a glowing light which will grow into a shining light to become an illuminator

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

~ Diane Samuels

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

She is clothed in strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.

~ Anonymous

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead.

~ Patricia C. Wrede

Steer your boat with justice: forge A tongue on truth's anvil.

~ Pindar

Where there's smoke around a conservative, there are journalists furiously rubbing two sticks together.

~ Ann Coulter

The young must not scoff at the old, for flowers don’t bloom forever

~ Mo Yan

There’s a Russian proverb: To taste the ocean, all you need is one gulp.

~ Howard Norman

In a lawsuit the first to speak seems right,until someone comes forward and cross-examines.

~ Proverbs 18:17

Better a little with righteousnessthan much gain with injustice.

~ Proverbs 16:8

When you do a bad deed, if God did not forgive you, it might punishes you at the same time of conducting the bad deed, or it will take forty years, if during forty years you did not get the punishment, be sure will keep the punishment for you to the day of judgment.

~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

It was the call for animals that have two horns that brought out the snail

~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Going to upward is hard, facing downward is harder, that's why you have to be well prepared.

~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

El hambre agudiza el ingenio,” said Raphael.Hunger sharpens the wit.“Good proverb,” said Magnus. “However, like most proverbs, it sounds wise and yet does not actually clarify anything.

~ Cassandra Clare

A knife may scar a body, but a careless word will wound a soul.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Commit your work to the Lord, and then your plans will succeed.” (Proverbs 16:3).

~ Bible

When the cat gets hungry, it starts to steal.

~ Kamaran Ihsan Salih

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

~ Duwamish Proverb

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

~ Jean De La Fontaine

A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb

~ Matthew Polly

The English have a proverb, 'Conscience makes cowboys of us all'.

~ Saki

Don't marry for money, you can borrow it cheaper.

~ Scottish Proverb

Do you know Eastern proverbs?Unskilled guns, but... The more guns, the likely they will hit...I've got plenty of Akuma to go around.

~ Katsura Hoshino

He sleeps for himself and dreams for others.

~ Anonymous

That which falls off a lorry belongs to he who follows the lorry.

~ Michael De Larrabeiti

It's impossible to lose that which does not belong to you.

~ Michael De Larrabeiti

When you go to see the lake, you also see the hippos.

~ William Kamkwamba

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

~ Brian Spellman

We aren't going to choose paths of wisdom if we don't trust the One who has marked out those paths for us. Fear of the Lord is trust in the Lord

~ Lydia Brownback