#proverb

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#few #into #matter #much #proverb

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. ↗

— William Temple

#books #chief #esteem #like #passed

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life. ↗

— St. Jerome

#daughter #first #first of all #godly #heart

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that. ↗

— Dwayne Johnson

#check #cliff #comedy #comes #commit

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#inspirations #proverbs #witty

I am told that there is a proverbial phrase among the Inuit: 'A long time ago, in the future.' Let the children see our history, and maybe it will help to shape the future. ↗

— Romeo LeBlanc

#am #among #children #future #help

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

The only way to tell a fable is to introduce a human. The only way to tell a proverb is to introduce your grandfather. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #proverbs #funny

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

— Jodi Picoult

#revenge #enemy