Proverbs Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

4,425 Proverbs Quotes
“So was hir jolly whistel wel y-wette.”
Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Source: The Canterbury Tales (l. 4,155), The Reeve's Tale
“Consider the end.”
Chilo of Sparta Chilon Quotes
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
“Mutually giving and receiving aid, They set each other off, like light and shade.”
Chilo of Sparta Chilon Quotes
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
“Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill.”
Chilo of Sparta Chilon Quotes
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
“Whom drink made wits, though nature made them fools.”
Chilo of Sparta Chilon Quotes
Source: his motto, inscribed on Temple of Apollo at Delphi,
“Patience is sorrow's salve.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“A bachelor's bed is the most pleasant.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“A wise man does nothing by constraint.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“All soils are not fertile.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“As you sow, so shall you also reap.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Care must be taken that the punishment does not exceed the offence.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Certain signs are the forerunners of certain events.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Do nothing twice over.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Every animal loves itself.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Every man's friend is no man's friend.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Everyone has his besetting sin.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Falsehoods border on truths.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“He has no other recommendation, save an assumed and crafty solemnity of demeanour.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!”
Charles Churchill Quotes
Source: Prophecy of Famine (l. 363)
“I hate all children of precocious talent.”
Unknown Quotes
“I hate all children of precocious talent.”
Unknown Quotes