Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.
It is easy to be brave from a distance.
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.
The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears.
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
He had a wonderful talent for packing thought close, and rendering it portable.
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak, but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks: and those to whom they are spoken should be big and tall of stature.
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of eternity; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book -- what everyone else does not say in a book.
No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate.
Never sit while your seniors stand.
Treachery darkens the chain of friendship, but truth makes it brighter than ever.
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