Proverbs Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

4,425 Proverbs Quotes
“What is bred in the bone will never come out of the flesh.”
Bidpai Pilpay Quotes
Source: The Two Fishermen (fable xiv)
“Of joys departed Not to return, how painful the remembrance.”
Bidpai Pilpay Quotes
Source: The Two Fishermen (fable xiv)
“Silence gives consent. [Lat., Qui tacet, consentire videtur.]”
Pope Boniface VIII Quotes
Source: Decretals (bk. V, 12, 43), taken from the Canon Law
“To rise with the lark, and go to bed with the lamb.”
Nicholas Breton Quotes
Source: Court and County (p. 183), (1618 edition)
“First come, first served.”
Henry Brinklow Quotes
Source: Complaint of Roderyck Mors
“What loss feels he that wots not what he loses?”
Henry Brinklow Quotes
Source: Complaint of Roderyck Mors
“God's in His Heaven-- All's right with the world!”
Robert Browning Quotes
Source: Pippa Passes (pt. I)
“The style is the man. [Fr., Le style c'est l'homme.]”
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Quotes
Source: Discourse on taking his seat in the French Academie
“Only by the candle, held in the skeleton hand of Poverty, can man read his own dark heart.”
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Quotes
Source: Discourse on taking his seat in the French Academie
“Sharp is the kiss of the falcon's beak.”
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Quotes
Source: Discourse on taking his seat in the French Academie
“The man who wants his wedding garments to suit him must allow plenty of time for the measure.”
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Quotes
Source: Discourse on taking his seat in the French Academie
“A pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.”
George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon Quotes
Source: Discourse on taking his seat in the French Academie
“Every fat (vat) must stand upon its bottom.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. I)
“He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“And last, the crown of a' my grief.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Breathes there a man, whose judgment clear Can others teach their course to steer, Yet run himself life's mad career Wild as the wave?”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“But pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flower,--its bloom is shed.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Care, mad to see a man sae happy, E'en drouned himsel amang the nappy.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Cock up your beaver.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Her prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses O!”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“I'ld charm her with the magic of a switch.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Is there a man whose judgment clear Can others teach the course to steer, Yet runs himself life's mad career, Wild as the wave?”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Know, prudent cautious self-control Is wisdom's root.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
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