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Tag Name "Proverbs" (62)

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The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.
Charles Spurgeon
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
Edward Abbey
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But such is life, the silliest proverbs prove to be true, and when a man thinks, now it's all right, it's not all right by a longshot. Man proposes, God disposes, and there's always that last straw to break the camel's back.
Alfred Doblin
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As I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs.
William Blake
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Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.
William Fleming
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Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.
William Mathews
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Patch grief with proverbs.
William Shakespeare
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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
Francis Bacon
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[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
Zora Neale Hurston
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In Proverbs we read: 'He that winneth souls is wise.' If any man, women, or child by a godly life and example can win one soul to God, his life will not have been a failure. He will have outshone all the mighty men of his day, because he will have set a stream in motion that will flow on and on forever and ever.
Dwight L. Moody
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My favorite book in the Bible is always Proverbs because it's where you can find wisdom for no matter what you're going through. It hits me every time I read it. I've always read Proverbs regularly because it helps me deal with what's happening every day in real life.
Torii Hunter
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Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
James Howell
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Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God loves and delights to cross worldly proverbs and worldly craft.
Joseph Caryl
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Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The devil shall have his bargain for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.
William Shakespeare
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He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You never get to the end of Christ's words. There is something in them always behind. They pass into proverbs--they pass into laws--they pass into doctrines--they pass into consolations but they never pass away, and, after all the use that is made of them, they are still not exhausted.
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
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Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Whatever we focus our attention on is what will dominate our thoughts (Proverbs 23:7). If our thoughts are dominated by the things of this world then we are going to get worldly results in our lives. We need to focus on God to get godly results.
Andrew Wommack
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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.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana
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Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.
Richard Whately
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Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.
Dorothea Brande
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