Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
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.
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.
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.
Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
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