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The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Fools and Foolishness
Isaac Disraeli

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A proverb is the child of experience.
Proverbs
English Proverb

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
Proverbs
R. Buckminster Fuller

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

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Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
Time and Time Management
George Robert Gissing

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

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A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
Proverbs
John Keats

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A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
Proverbs
John Morley

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A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Proverbs
John Russell

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Patch grief with proverbs.
Grief
William Shakespeare

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The proverb is something musty.
Proverbs
William Shakespeare

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A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Ideals and Idealism
Alexander Smith

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun