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