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I'll tell the names and sayings and the places of their birth,
Of the seven great ancient sages so renowned on Grecian earth,
The Lindian Cleobulus said, "The mean was still the best";
The Spartan Chilo said, "Know thyself," a heaven-born phrase
confessed.
Corinthian Periander taught "Our anger to command,"
"Too much of nothing," Pittacus, from Mitylene's strand;
Athenian Solon this advised, "Look to the end of life,"
And Bias from Priene showed, "Bad men are the most rife";
Milesian Thales uregd that "None should e'er a surety be";
Few were there words, but if you look, you'll much in little see.
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: from the Greek
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But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your
children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which
I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship
them:
Then I will cut off Israel out of the land which I have given
them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I
cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword
among all people:
And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath
the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?
Bible
Quotes , Source: I Kings (ch. IX, v. 6-8)
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As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from
the wicked: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.
Bible
Quotes , Source: I Samuel (ch. XXIV, v. 13)
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As Love and I late harbour'd in one inn,
With proverbs thus each other entertain;
"In love there is no lack," thus I begin;
"Fair words make fools," replieth he again;
"Who spares to speak doth spare to speed," quoth I;
"As well," saith he, "too forward as too slow";
"Fortune assists the boldest," I reply;
"A hasty man," quote he, "ne'er wanted woe";
"Labour is light where love," quote I, "doth pay";
"Light burden's heavy, if far borne";
Quoth I, "The main lost, cast the by away";
"Y'have spun a fair thread," he replies in scorn.
And having thus awhile each other thwarted
Fools as we met, so fools again we parted.
Michael Drayton
Quotes , Source: Proverbs
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Proverbs like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary
of the intuitions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotes , Source: Compensation
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Much matter decocted into few words.
Thomas Fuller
Quotes , Source: Definition of a proverb--Worthies (ch. II)
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Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.
Sir James Mackintosh
Quotes , Source: quoted on the title page of Broom's "Legal Maxims"
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This formal fool, your man, speaks naught but proverbs,
And speak men what they can to him he'll answer
With some rhyme, rotten sentence, or old saying,
Such spokes as ye ancient of ye parish use.
Henry Porter
Quotes , Source: The Proverb, from "Two Angry Women of Abindon"
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A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Lord John Russell (1)
Quotes , Source: in Notes to Roger's "Italy", claimed by him as his original definition of a proverb
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I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no
colors.'
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: Twelfth Night, or, What You Will (Maria at I, v)
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