proverbs Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

4,425 proverbs Quotes
“They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Matthew (ch. XV, v. 14)
“If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Matthew (ch. XVII, v. 20)
“For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Matthew (ch. XXII, v. 14)
“Wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Matthew (ch. XXIV, v. 28)
“All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Matthew (ch. XXVI, v. 52)
“Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. I, v. 17)
“For whom the Lord liveth he correcteth.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. III, v. 12)
“Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. III, v. 16)
“Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. III, v. 17)
“The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.”
Bible Quotes
Source: Proverbs (ch. IV, v. 18)
“Mind your P's and Q's.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: possibly from the old custom of hanging a slate in a tavern with P and Q (for pints and quarts) unde
“There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know that they know; and those who know that they know.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: rendering of an Arab proverb
“Wode has erys, felde has sigt.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: King Edward and the Shepherd, a manuscript (circa 1300)
“The man that heweth over high, Some chip falleth in his eye.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: Story of Sir Eglamour of Artois, an English romantic story circa 1350, from a manuscript in the Garr
“Snug as a bug in a rug.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: The Stratford Jubilee (II, 1, 1779), also in letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley
“The woman that deliberates is lost.”
Unattributed Author Quotes
Source: The Stratford Jubilee (II, 1, 1779), also in letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley
“A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: Sir Roger on the Bench
“When you are at Rome, live as Romans live.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: Sir Roger on the Bench
“A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.”
Joseph Addison Quotes
Source: Sir Roger on the Bench
“There is safety in numbers. [Lat., Defendit numerus.]”
Anonymous Quotes
Source: "The World of Mathematics" edited by J.R. Newman (p. 1452)
“Good Americans when they die go to Paris.”
Anonymous Quotes
Source: "The World of Mathematics" edited by J.R. Newman (p. 1452)
“Man proposes, and God disposes. [It., Ordina l'uomo, e dio dispone.]”
Ludovico Ariosto Quotes
Source: Orlando Furioso (ch. XLVI, 35)
“Money makes the man.”
Aristodemus Quotes
Source: see Alcaeus, "Fragment--Miscellaneous--Songs"
“One swallow does not make spring.”
Aristotle Quotes
Source: Ethic--Nicom (bk. I)
“A friend is a second self.”
Aristotle Quotes
Source: Nicomachean Ethics
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