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Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

William Feather

All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

William Mathews

Patch grief with proverbs

William Shakespeare

A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs

German Proverb

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Isaac Disraeli

Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm.

Ed Northstrum

...whatever... you pretend... if any of you be a prayerless person, or a scoffer, or a lover of evil company (Proverbs 13:20), in a word, if you are not a holy, strict, and self-denying Christian, you cannot be saved.

Joseph Alleine

Only when the last tree has been cut down and the last river has dried up will man realize that reciting red indian proverbs makes you sound like a fucking muppet.

Banksy