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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
John Morley /
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller / Architect
Few Words
Matter
Spectacular
Distilled
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A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
Lord John Russell /
Wisdom
Wit
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel De Cervantes / Novelist
Experience
Inspirational
Wisdom
Long
Based
Short
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Sentence
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Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Lewis Carroll / Writer
Better Late Than Never
Form
Late
Recycling
Better Late Never
Better Never Than
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My first tattoo is a French proverb, and it says, 'Dream your life, live your dreams.'
Ravyn Lenae /
Tattoo
Your Dreams
French
Life Dreams Your Dreams
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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
George Gissing / Novelist
Money
Time
Truth
Time Is Money
Turns
Time Truth Money
Around
Truth Time Money
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The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas Szasz / Psychiatrist
Feeding
Hands
Liberty
Self Reliance
Should
Yourself
Bite
Hand
Maybe
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The study of folklore is largely the study of particular folklore genres: myth, folktale, legend, ballad, proverb, riddle, superstition, etc.
Alan Dundes /
Etc
Folklore
Myth
Particular
Riddle
Study
Ballad
Legend
Genres
Largely
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Superstition
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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.
Miguel De Cervantes / Novelist
Believe
Literature
Maxims
Mother
Sentences
Experience Believe I Believe
Drawn
Proverb
Sciences
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Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
Nicholson Baker / Writer
Particular
Relative
Life Power Your
Applied
Watched
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I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Miguel De Cervantes / Novelist
Conversation
Forever
Insipid
Literature
Missing
Vulgar
Applied
Aptly
Hit
Miss
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Reasonably
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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.
Soichiro Honda / Engineer
Arise
Sail
Stronger
Life Best Your
Equipped
Goes
Hand
Japanese
Literally
Meaning
Opportunities
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There's an African proverb that I always quote as I think it's incredible which is, 'if the children are not initiated into the village, then they'll burn it down just to feel its warmth.'
Wunmi Mosaku /
Village
Warmth
Burn
Initiated
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For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
Bill Bradley / Former U.s. Senator
Love
Chinese
Hate
Long
Long Time
Love Time Hate
Love Time Long
Laugh
Operated
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There's a Yoruba proverb which roughly translates into, 'What turns its face to one person has turned its back on the other.' It's always made me think about how deeply subjective our experience of the world can be.
Ayobami Adebayo /
Experience
Made
Subjective
Turns
Always World Face
Experience Always World
Face
Back
Deeply
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Turned
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Art to me means lot of things - images and words. I may be no artist myself, but I recognise the pleasure you get from a new proverb or a new painting. It puts you in a particular frame of mind. Visually I like art, philosophically I like art.
Chris Eubank Sr. /
Painting
Particular
Pleasure
Recognise
Frame
Images
Philosophically
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Puts
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge / 30Th U.s. President
Daughter
Education
Happiness
Inspirational
Intelligence
Journey
Knowledge
Learning
Motivational
Strength
Success
Alone
Failure
Men
Common
Determination
Educated
Genius
Omnipotent
Persistence
Talent
Unsuccessful
World
Will
Nothing
More
Almost
Take
Full
Place
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Than
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When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then learned and have ever since kept in my mind: 'Dico tibi verum, Libertas optima rerum; Nunquam servili, sub nexu vivito, fili.' 'I tell you a truth: Liberty is the best of things, my son; never live under any slavish bond.'
William Wallace / Landowner
Best
Truth
Liberty
Mind
Son
Things
Then
Best Mind Me
Live
Since
Me
Boy
Any
Never
Bond
Carefully
Ever
Inculcated
Learned
Priest
Proverb
Slavish
Tell
Uncle
Which
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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 can't know where you're going if you don't know where you've been'. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.
Ashwin Sanghi / Author
History
Connections
Mystery
Patterns
History Believe Me
History Believe I Believe
Between
Combine
Old
Present
Proverb
Reads
Repeat
Tend
Themselves
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At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.
T. J. Perkins /
Classic
Enlightenment
Finale
Heard
Said
Staying
Water
After
Before
Carry
Chop
Part
Old
Interpreted
Looked
Moment
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Wood
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