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Proverb Quotes

L. M. Montgomery quote: "Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you,..."
Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help. L. M. Montgomery
Aldous Huxley quote: "Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally..."
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. Aldous Huxley
James Howell quote: "Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the..."
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people. James Howell
Miguel de Cervantes quote: "Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. Miguel de Cervantes
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. Leo Rosten
William R. Alger quote: "Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the..."
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. William R. Alger
John Keats quote: "Nothing ever becomes real till experienced? even a proverb is..."
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced? even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it John Keats
...you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one. Paulo Coelho
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
Always remember the proverb: "This too shall pass." Your negative feelings won't last forever, there's a light at the end of every tunnel. It might not happen today or tomorrow, but you'll feel better eventually. Paulo Coelho
Sweat cleaned you as effectively as water. But this was the race which had invented the proverb that cleanliness was next to godliness - cleanliness, not purity. Graham Greene
If it were not for the depressing heat and the urgency of the work, one could sit down and laugh to tears at the absurdity of the thing, and under the circumstances it is a little wearing. But our motto is the old west coast proverb, Softly, softly, catchee monkey; in other words, don't flurry; patience gains the day. Robert Baden-Powell
Tracy Kidder quote: "god gives but does not share" --haitian proverb"
god gives but does not share" --haitian proverb Tracy Kidder
Stephen King quote: "If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. -..."
If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb Stephen King
Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations. J. R. R. Tolkien

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