(466 quotes found)
“If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice.”
Chinese Proverbs
“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb”
French Proverb
“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)”
Bible
“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
“He who ignores discipline despises himself, but whoever heeds correction gains understanding (Proverbs 15:32).”
“The best things in life are free.”
American Proverb
“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
“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
“When your mouth stumbles, it's worse than feet. - Oji proverb”
African Proverb
