Proverbial Wisdom Quotes & Sayings

[I]t is no doubt true that our image of what a messiah might look like may keep us from recognizing the real thing when it stands before us. Could it be that we have embellished the long-awaited event with so many aggadic flourishes that we can no longer recognize the reality when it happens? Could our overly literal reading of our sages' poetic descriptions have led us to overlook completely the miracle as it happened?
One of the dangers of taking the statements and speculations of our sages as literal truth - when they were not meant as such - is the distortion of our expectations. — Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Love many, trust a few, and learn to paddle your own canoe. — American Proverb.

It is by now proverbial that every proverb has its opposite. For every Time is money there is a Stop and smell the roses. When someone says You never stand in the same river twice someone else has already replied There is nothing new under the sun. In the mind's arithmetic, 1 plus -1 equals 2. Truths are not quantities but scripts: Become for a moment the mind in which this is true. — James Richardson

Cry is a sound in woman's ear; it is a volcano in man's heart. — Kamaran Ihsan Salih

Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not. — Donna Shalala

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

An old hen is worth 40 chickens. ~ Hebe Jones — Julia Stuart

A peasant with gold is still a peasant — Tom Doig

I will not give up to sing until the people say it's enough. I hope it will be very late. — Julio Iglesias

This is how southern woman worked all peaches in cream laced with arsenic — Molly Harper

If you are what you eat, you are what you see and hear. — E.A. Bucchianeri

A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world. — Aldous Huxley

Study to learn, do not study to pass". — Kamaran Ihsan Salih

May your happiness be according to your wishes. — Lawrence H. Levy

Some cats are angry at being called cats. To achieve peace with them, never call them by their real name — Bangambiki Habyarimana

More effectively than any of the other tales, 'The Emperor's New Clothes' established Andersen's reputation as a man who created stories for children - not just in the sense of target audience, but also as beneficiaries of something extraordinary. The lesson embedded in it is so transparent that its title circulates in the form of proverbial wisdom about social hypocrisy. But more importantly, 'The Emperor's New Clothes' romanticizes children by investing them with the courage to challenge authority and to speak truth to power. — Maria Tatar

The first thing I'll do if I want to look really crappy is, I don't wear any makeup at all. — Michael Caine

The stomach does not reveal what it ate — Ikechukwu Joseph

Don't sprout where you haven't been planted. — Julia Stuart

What happiness it is to listen to rain at night; joyful relief, ease; a lapping-round and hushing and brooding tenderness, all are mingled together in the sound of the fast-falling rain. God, looking down upon the rainy earth, sees how faint are these lights shining in little windows, - how easily put out ... — Katherine Mansfield

The family that prays together ... is brainwashing their children. — Albert Einstein

Don't extend your feet beyond your blanket. — Julia Stuart

It is a proverbial expression that every man is the maker of his own fortune, and we usually regard it as implying that every man by his folly or wisdom prepares good or evil for himself. But we may view it in another light, namely, that we may so accommodate ourselves to the dispositions of Providence as to be happy in our lot, whatever may be its privations. — Alexander Von Humboldt

I want him to know the game is over. No more Castles. The real gunslingers are here. Let's see if he can deal with them. — Stephen King

A personal agenda is a fool's agenda. — Clifford Lafrenier

You don't need the mirror to see what you have on your wrist
Meaning: the truth is visible and clear. — Ikechukwu Joseph

Feed a squirrel and he'll leave you alone every day. — Brian Spellman

Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all. — Mason Cooley

All wisdom is in learning how to go with the proverbial flow, — Asif Ismael

If you are not a king, do not accept the throne, which is the sit of your downfall. — Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes. — Kanye West

A lucky person is one who plants pebbles and harvests potatoes. — Julia Stuart

My favorite Proverb: If you argue with a fool, how will they know who the fool is? — C. Fern Cook

A dog with big names does not live to see many day. — Aihebholo-oria Okonoboh