Proverbs Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

4,425 Proverbs Quotes
“Custom is second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo est secunda natura.]”
Aristotle Quotes
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.”
Aristotle Quotes
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.”
Aristotle Quotes
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“If you are dreaded by many then beware of many.”
Aristotle Quotes
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.”
Aristotle Quotes
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“Let the blacksmith wear the chains he has himself made.”
Aristotle Quotes
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“No man will revel long in the indulgence of crime.”
Aristotle Quotes
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“One day unfolds it and one day destroys.”
Aristotle Quotes
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“Knowledge is power.”
Aristotle Quotes
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.”
Aristotle Quotes
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.”
Aristotle Quotes
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
“The folly of one man is the fortune of another.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Of Fortune
“The remedy is worse than the disease.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Of Seditions
“He won't, won't he? Then bring me my boots.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
Source: Of Seditions
“One picture is worth ten thousand words.”
Frederick R. Barnard Quotes
Source: Printer's Ink
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes
Source: Isle of Beauty
“There is a method in man's wickedness: It grows up by degrees.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes
Source: Isle of Beauty
“'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly Quotes
Source: Isle of Beauty
“What mare's nest hast thou found?”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: Bonduca (IV, 2)
“Hit the nail on the head.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: Love's Cure (act II, sc. 1)
“Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: Love's Cure (act II, sc. 2)
“I'll put a spoke among your wheels.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: Mad Lover (III, 5)
“After supper walk a mile.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: Philaster (II, 4)
“I'll have a fling.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife (III, 5)
“He comes not in my books.”
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Quotes
Source: The Widow