#proverb

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

#fine #help #nothing #proverbs #real

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. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#proverb #proverbs #humor

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#revenge #enemy

There are no endings, only beginnings that have been reborn. ↗

— D. Byron Patterson

#inspirational #mythology #philosophical #wisdom #inspirational

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#better #boyhood #city #great #great need

There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way. ↗

— Libba Bray

#proverb #revelation #suffering #wisdom #wisdom

Out here, it's better safe than sorry, because generally speaking, too much of the time sorry means you're dead. ↗

— Patricia C. Wrede

#humor #proverbs #safe #sorry #humor

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#money

It was not curiosity that killed the goose who laid the golden egg, but an insatiable greed that devoured common sense. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#common-sense #curiosity #deadly-sins #faults #gold

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. ↗

— Thomas Pynchon

#paranoia #proverbs #questions #wit #wrong