Proverbs

Famous quotes containing the word proverbs:

“Friends are like fiddle strings, they must not be screwed too tight.”
—English proverb, collected in H.G. Bohn, A Handbook of Proverbs (1855)

“He that seeks trouble never misses.”
—17th-Century English proverb, first collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)

“The words of a whisperer are like delicious morsels; they go down into the inner parts of the body.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 18:8.