- A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. ~ Fiona Macleod
- A talk is like a woman’s dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting. ~ Author Unknown
- A woman is like a blanket: If you cover yourself with it, it bothers you; if you throw it aside you will feel the cold. ~ Ghanaian Proverb
- Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies. ~ Theodore L. Cuyler
- Any cloth may cover our sores, but the finest silk will not cover our sins. ~ Henry Smith
- Avoid a friend who covers you with his wings and destroys you with his beak. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. ~ Mark Twain
- Build with silver and cover with gold. ~ Omani Proverb
- Don’t judge a book by its cover. ~ English Proverb
- Don’t want to cover old ground ~ Traditional Proverb
- Ears have no covers. ~ Creole Proverb
- Fair money can cover much that’s foul. ~ Dutch Proverb
- He who is covered with other people’s clothes is naked. ~ Tunisian Proverb
- His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there’s scarcely a hole in it anywhere. ~ Mark Twain
- If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket~ Matthew White
- If you enter the city of the blind, cover your eyes. ~ Iranian Proverb
- Make sure your blanket covers your feet. ~ Azerbaijani Proverb
- Marriage is a covered dish. ~ Swiss Proverb
- O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain;~ Mark Twain
- Once dead the good and the bad are covered by the same moss. ~ Japanese Proverb
- One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness. ~ Harold Pinter
- Physicians’ faults are covered with earth, and rich men’s with money. ~ Traditional Proverb
- Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich. ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- Steal a bell with one’s ears covered. ~ Chinese Proverbs
- The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. ~ Denis Diderot
- The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. ~ Robert M. Hutchins
- The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
- The earth will cover the doctor’s mistakes. ~ Ukrainian Proverb
- The feathers of a dead eagle would cover you all over. ~ Gabonese Proverb
- The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms. ~ Albert Einstein
- The night forms a cover for sinners. ~ Puerto Rican Proverb
- There are things of deadly earnest that can only be mentioned under the cover of a joke. ~ J. J. Procter
- There is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be known. ~ Bible quotes
- Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When the calf is drowned they cover the well. ~ Dutch Proverb
- Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. ~ David Hume
- You can say what you like about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins. ~ Mae West
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