Logo
A wise man who knows proverbs reconciles difficulties. - Yoruba Pr

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

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

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. – Walter Benjamin

Category:
Quotations

I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. – Robert Burns

Category:
Quotations

Collections of gnomes, adages, sayings, and parables have been made from times immemorial in all countries and in all languages possessing some kind of literature. – E.H. Michelsen, A Manual of Quotations from the Ancient, Modern, and Oriental La

Category:
Quotations

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge. – Thomas Hood

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten oclock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle. – John Hersey

Category:
Morning

But I do believe that a womans truest place is in a home, with a husband and with children, and with large freedom, pecuniary freedom, personal freedom, and the right to vote. – Lucy Stone

Category:
Freedom

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it. – George Carlin

Category:
Apathy

When you say things like, We have to wipe out the Taliban, what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway. – Arundhati Roy

Category:
History