This page contains a compilation of 39 quotes and sayings about proverbs. Enjoy!
- Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late? ~ Lewis Carroll
- When an occasion arises, there is a proverb to suit it. ~ William R. Alger
- 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
- Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time. ~ George Gissing
- There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems. ~ Thomas Carlyle
- There is no proverb which is not true. ~ Cervantes
- The wit of one man, and the wisdom of many. ~ Lord John Russell
- The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them. ~ Isaac Disraeli
- The study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the most elaborate scheme of philosophy. ~ William Motherwell
- The proverbs of a nation, furnish the index to its spirit, and the results of its civilization. ~ Josiah Gilbert Holland
- The proverb is something musty. ~ William Shakespeare
- The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. ~ Francis Bacon
- Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation are the sanctuary of the intuitions. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Proverbs generalize the verdicts of the world. ~Drew Sirtors
- Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation. ~ William Fleming
- Proverbs can be applied to get what you want. ~ Zimbabwean Proverb
- Proverbs are the people’s wisdom. ~ Russian Proverb
- Proverbs are the lamp of speech. ~ Arabic Proverb
- Proverbs are somewhat analogous to those medical formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready made up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct prescription. ~ Archbishop Richard Whately
- Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
- Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. ~ William R. Alger
- Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct. ~ Dorothea Brande
- Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ~ Aldous Huxley
- Patch grief with proverbs. ~ William Shakespeare
- Much matter decocted into few words. ~ Thomas Fuller
- If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory. ~ Sir Henry Sidney
- 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
- How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.~ Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
- For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commend ablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good. ~ John Florio
- Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ~ George Santayana
- A short saying often contains much wisdom. ~ Sophocles
- A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. ~ Lord John Russell
- A proverb is the child of experience. ~ English Proverb
- A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom. ~ John Russell
- A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it. ~ John Keats
- A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
- A proverb is good sense brought to a point. ~ John Morley
- A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
- A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. ~ German Proverb
