Proverbs Quotes

Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.

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

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

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

I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.

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

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.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

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

If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

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.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

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.

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.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.

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.

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.