Old Proverb Quotes

Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence and solitude is to be able to see and hear. Control rather than no noise is the key to silence. James saw clearly that the person who could control his tounge is perfect (James 3:1-12). Under the Discipline of silence and solitude we learn when to speak and when to refrain from speaking.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

There is no fool like an old fool.

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.

Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.

There's an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates and the truth of the matter is the weak and feckless policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East and all the while, all we do is fold our arms and say we're not having talks anymore.

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

All's well that ends well.

All is well that ends well