Proverb Quotes

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.

A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.

There is that great proverb – that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air.

Newton, (that Proverb of the Mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great Ocean-Truth.”