Proverbs Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

4,425 Proverbs Quotes
“Nae man can tether time nor tide.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“O doul on the day that gae me an old man.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither; They had been fou for weeks thegither.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“The gallant Sir Robert fought hard to the end, But who can with fate and quart bumpers contend? Though Fate said, a hero should perish ill light; So up rose bright Phoebus, and down fell the knight.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“The life blood streaming thro' my heart, Or my more dear immortal part, Is not more fondly dear.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Think, ye may buy the joys o'er dear, Remember Tam o'Shanter's mare.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Yestreen, when to the trembling string The dance gaed thro' the lighted ha', To thee my fancy took its wing; I sat, but neither heard nor saw.”
John Bunyan Quotes
Source: Pilgrim's Progress (pt. II)
“Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a' kennin' wrang To step aside is human.”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Address to Unco Guid
“Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Man Was Made to Mourn
“Inspiring bold John Barleycorn, What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquebae, we'll face the devil!”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Tam o' Shanter (l. 105)
“O wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us. And foolish notion; What airs in dress and gait wad lea'e us, And ev'n devotion!”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: To a Louse
“Whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad.”
Robert Burns Quotes
Source: Whistle, and I'll Come to You (act IV, sc. 4)
“Believe Robert who has tried it. [Lat., Experto crede Roberto.]”
Robert Burton Quotes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy, a proverb quoted by him in the introduction
“No rule is so general, which admits not some exception.”
Robert Burton Quotes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. I, sc. II, memb. 2, subsect. 3)
“Hold one another's noses to the grindstone hard.”
Robert Burton Quotes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sec. I, memb. 3)
“Going as if he trod upon eggs.”
Robert Burton Quotes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy (pt. III, sect. II, memb. 3)
“Penny wise, pound foolish.”
Robert Burton Quotes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
“A man convinced against his will, Is of the some opinion still.”
Robert Burton Quotes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
“Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to.”
Robert Burton Quotes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
“Great actions are not always true sons Of great and mighty resolutions.”
Robert Burton Quotes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
“I am not now in fortune's power, He that is down can fall no lower.”
Robert Burton Quotes
Source: Anatomy of Melancholy--Democritus to the Reader (p. 35)
“Smell a rat.”
Samuel Butler 1 Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 821)
“I'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of the old cur.”
Samuel Butler 1 Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 278)
“Which he by hook or crook has gather'd And by his own inventions father'd.”
Samuel Butler 1 Quotes
Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 109)
“The point is plain as a pike staff.”
John Byrom Quotes
Source: Epistle to a Friend
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