Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Proverbial Wisdom.
Misfortunes do not flourish on one path, they grow everywhere.
American Indian Proverb, Pawnee
Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself.
American Indian Proverb, Pima
Respect the gift and the giver.
American Indian Proverb, Omaha
The bird who has eaten cannot fly with the bird that is hungry.
Ask questions from you heart and you will be answered from the heart.
Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.
American Indian Proverb, Plains
A hungry stomach makes a short prayer.
American Indian Proverb, Paiute
Cherish youth, but trust old age.
American Indian Proverb, Pueblo
A starving man will eat with the wolf.
American Indian Proverb, Oklahom
The coward shoots with shut eyes.
When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps.
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
Jean Rostand
As the Arab proverb says, The dog barks and the caravan passes. After having dropped this quotation, Mr. Norpois stopped to judge the effect it had on us. It was great; the proverb was known to us: it had been replaced that year among men of high worth by this other: Whoever sows the wind reaps the storm, which had needed some rest since it was not as indefatigable and hardy as, Working for the King of Prussia.
Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Th
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon
Geng Lei was a famous archer of the state of Wei. One day while he was on an excursion outside the city with the King of Wei, he saw a bird circling in the sky. The King asked him to down the goose with an arrow. He answered: I don't have to use an arrow. I can just make the bird fall down from the sky with my arch. Do you have that marvellous skill? asked the King. Presently they saw the wild goose flying from the east. Geng Ying twanged the string of his bow and indeed the wild goose at once dropped to the ground in front of them. You're really a wonderful archer, said the King with approval. Geng Lei said, This is a wounded wild goose. From its desolate cry and tired flight you can see its wound has not yet healed. When it heard the twang of my bow-string, it thought it was again hit by an arrow and fell from the sky.
Chinese Proverb, Best Chinese Id
The proverb is something musty.
William Shakespeare
Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.
Francis H. Bradley
A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.
Johann von Goethe
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
John Keats
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Friedrich Von Schlegel
