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| A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. | 1 |
| A proverb, a true word. German. | 2 |
| A proverb deceives not; the heavens fall not. German. | 3 |
| A proverb is a remnant of the ancient philosophy preserved amidst very many destructions on account of its brevity and fitness for use. Publius Syrus quoting from a work of Aristotle now lost. | 4 |
| A proverb is condensed popular wisdom. Carl Seelbach. | 5 |
| A proverb is much light condensed in one flash. Simmons. | 6 |
| A proverb lies not; its sense only deceives. German. | 7 |
| A proverb—much matter decocted into a few words. Fuller. | 8 |
| A proverb is the child of experience. | 9 |
| A proverb is the experience of half a century, extracted from a dozen folio volumes and compressed in a crystal. | 10 |
| A proverb is the interpretation of the words of the wise. Bible. | 11 |
| A proverb is the wit of one man and the wisdom of many. John Russell. | 12 |
| A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. Yoruba. | 13 |
| All the good sense of the world runs into proverbs. | 14 |
| An apologue of Æsop is beyond a syllogism, and proverbs more powerful than demonstration. Brown’s Vulgar Errors. | 15 |
| As the country so the proverb. German. | 16 |
| Cessit in proverbum. (It has become a proverb.) | 17 |
| Generally a fable is a proverb put in action. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. | 18 |
I am proverb’d with a grandsire phrase,
To be candle-holder and looker-on. Shakespeare. | 19 |
* * * * Jewels five words long
That on the stretched forefinger of all time
Sparkle forever. Tennyson. | 20 |
| Maxims expressed in a few words and become popular. La Rousse. | 21 |
| Proverbs are the children of experience. | 22 |
| Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. Dutch. | 23 |
| Proverbs are the echoes of experience. L’ Abbe de St. Pierre. | 24 |
| Proverbs are the jewels of the multitude. Popular Encyclopædia. | 25 |
| Proverbs are the language of the gods. Vico. | 26 |
| Proverbs are the wisdom of ages. German. | 27 |
| Proverbs are the wisdom of the streets. | 28 |
| Proverbs bear age, and he would do well to view himself in them as in a glass. | 29 |
| Proverbs lie on the lips of fools. | 30 |
| Short sentences drawn from long experience. Cervantes. | 31 |
| Short sentences frequently repeated by the people. Johnson. | 32 |
| Short sentences into which as in rules the ancients have compressed life. Johann Agricola, 1558. | 33 |
| Solomon made a book of proverbs, but a book of proverbs never made a Solomon. | 34 |
| The genius, wit and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs. Bacon. | 35 |
| The ingredients of a good proverb are sense, shortness and salt. Howell. | 36 |
| We have many coarse proverbs, but of good meaning. German. | 37 |
| Well-known and well-used dicta framed in a sort of out-of-the-way form and fashion. Erasmus. | 38 |
| When a poor man makes a proverb he does not break it. German. | 39 |
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