Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. St. Paul.

Proverbs are easily made in cold blood. Joe Willet.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond-fields of the mind. W. R. Alger.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long 35 experience. Cervantes.

Proverbs are the abridgments of wisdom. Joubert.

Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. Dut. Pr.

Proverbs are the wisdom of ages. Ger. Pr.

Proverbs are the wisdom of the streets. Pr.

Proverbs cover the whole field of man as he is, 40 and life as it is, not of either as they ought to be. John Morley.

Proverbs have been always dear to the true intellectual aristocracy of a nation. Trench.