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.
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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.
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.
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 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.
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.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
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