340 Quotations Quotes to share with friends and relatives

Proverbs are the lamps to words. – Arabian Proverb

Proverbs are the literature of reason. – French Proverb

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. – Yiddish Proverb

Epigrams succeed where epics fail. – Persian Proverb

What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to heaven; such are proverbs interwoven in speech. – Hebrew Proverb

Proverbs bear age and he who should do well may view himself in them as in a looking-glass. – Italian Proverb

The common sayings of the multitude are too true to be laughed at. – Welsh Proverb

A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. – Hebrew Proverb

A proverb is an ornament to language. – Persian Proverb

The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry. – Osmanli Proverb

The maxims of men disclose their hearts. – French Proverb

As the country so the proverb. – German Proverb

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer’s mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation… – Desiderius Erasmus, Adages

A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. – Yoruba Proverb, quoted in Curiosities in Proverbs: A Collection of Unusual Adage

To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it. – William Rounseville Alger, “The Utility and the Futility of Aphorisms,” The Atla

…though many a gatherer has carried his basket through these diamond districts of the mind… – William Rounseville Alger, “The Utility and the Futility of Aphorisms,” The Atla

Cunning authors cut to be quoted. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature

[T]hinking, thinking, remembering, biding her time, uttering extensive dreamy theories and troubling witticisms, with an occasional incorrectness of folk-songs in her speech. – Glenway Wescott, December 1929 [Referring to Elizabeth Madox Roberts (1881&ndash

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business—great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true. – Attributed to D. March in A Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Laconic Quot