Proverbs

Famous quotes containing the word proverbs:

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

“A stupid child is ruin to a father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 19:13.

“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.”
—John Florio (c. 1553–1625)