A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
It was huge to read the Proverbs of the day every morning it was huge to read the Psalm of the day every morning and to get that in us and get us going before the day even started.
I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.
I believe there's no proverb but what is true they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience the universal mother of sciences.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs fables folk sayings and quotations.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
More and more Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.
There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand ' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.