Logo
Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the worl

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

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Quotations
category

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. – Joseph Roux (1834–1905), Meditations of a Parish Priest, 1886, translated

Category:
Quotations

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. – Robert Brault

Category:
Quotations
[T]he governess… looked upon him [Mr. Swiveller] as a literary gentleman of eccentric habits, and of a most prodigious talent in quotation. – Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop, 1841

Category:
Quotations

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present. – Tryon Edwards

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers – its what my children call my dead author wall. I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. – Debbie Macomber

Category:
famous

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason. – William R. Alger

Category:
Anger

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
Committees

The fact that the mind rules the body is, in spite of its neglect by biology and medicine, the most fundamental fact which we know about the process of life. – Franz Alexander

Category:
Body