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Proverb Definition

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
John Morley

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
Lord John Russell

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

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

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

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Calvin Coolidge

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

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

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
George Gissing

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

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Lewis Carroll

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