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Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32883/view">Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/120/William_R._Alger">Alger, William R.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32884/view">The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/377/Francis_Bacon">Bacon, Francis</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32885/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/405/Nicholson_Baker">Baker, Nicholson</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32886/view">How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1125/Edward_G._Bulwer-Lytton">Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32887/view">There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1322/Thomas_Carlyle">Carlyle, Thomas</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32888/view">Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1410/Miguel_De_Cervantes">Cervantes, Miguel De</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32889/view">A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1410/Miguel_De_Cervantes">Cervantes, Miguel De</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32890/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1410/Miguel_De_Cervantes">Cervantes, Miguel De</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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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. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32891/view">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..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1410/Miguel_De_Cervantes">Cervantes, Miguel De</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32892/view">What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1612/Samuel_Taylor_Coleridge">Coleridge, Samuel Taylor</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32893/view">No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/1837/Edward_Dahlberg">Dahlberg, Edward</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32894/view">What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2103/Norman_Douglas">Douglas, Norman</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32895/view">For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2532/John_Florio">Florio, John</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32896/view">A proverb is much matter distilled into few words..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2676/R._Buckminster_Fuller">Fuller, R. Buckminster</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32897/view">A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/2895/Johann_Wolfgang_Von_Goethe">Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32898/view">Don't you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3210/Thomas_Hardy">Hardy, Thomas</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32899/view">Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3678/Aldous_Huxley">Huxley, Aldous</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32900/view">He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3852/Samuel_Johnson">Johnson, Samuel</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32901/view">They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3891/Joseph_Joubert">Joubert, Joseph</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32902/view">A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/3957/John_Keats">Keats, John</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32903/view">Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5119/John_Morely">Morely, John</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A proverb is good sense brought to a point. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32904/view">A proverb is good sense brought to a point..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5134/John_Morley">Morley, John</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A proverb is the child of experience. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32905/view">A proverb is the child of experience..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5870/English_Proverb">Proverb, English</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32906/view">A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/5874/German_Proverb">Proverb, German</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32907/view">A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6334/John_Russell">Russell, John</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32908/view">Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6431/George_Santayana">Santayana, George</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32909/view">Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6599/Seneca">Seneca</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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The proverb is something musty. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32910/view">The proverb is something musty..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6633/William_Shakespeare">Shakespeare, William</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32911/view">Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6851/Susan_Sontag">Sontag, Susan</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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A short saying often contains much wisdom. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32912/view">A short saying often contains much wisdom..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6852/Sophocles">Sophocles</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32913/view">I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6967/Wallace_Stevens">Stevens, Wallace</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. <blockquote><a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/quotes/32914/view">Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity..</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://www.quotecosmos.com/authors/6969/Robert_Louis_Stevenson">Stevenson, Robert Louis</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotecosmos.com">Quote Cosmos</a>
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