#proverbs

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#inspirations #proverbs #witty

It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning, it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started. ↗

— Tim Tebow

#day #even #every #get #going

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

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#practicality #proverbs #wise

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

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

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. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#advises #another #any #before #contradict

Danger is the snack food of a true sleuth. ↗

— Mac Barnett

#detectives #middle-grade #proverbs #quips #sayings

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ↗

— William Feather

#experience #fables #folk #into #nation

Short cuts make long delays. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#life-lesson #pippin #proverbs #shortcuts #life