#proverbs

Short cuts make long delays. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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Booze makes brothers like no mothers ever do. ↗

— Killian McRae

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This too shall pass... ↗

— Anonymous

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Lady Wisdom will be your close friend; and Brother Knowledge will be your pleasant companion. ↗

— Anonymous

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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people. ↗

— James Howell

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. ↗

— James Richardson

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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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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

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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

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