Respect the gift and the giver.
—American Indian Proverb
Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.
—American Indian Proverb
I believe there’s no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
The greatest strength is gentleness.
—American Indian Proverb
The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams.
—Adlai Stevenson (1900–65) American Diplomat, Politician, Orator
When a fox walks lame, the old rabbit jumps.
—American Indian Proverb
We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky.
—American Indian Proverb
A man must make his own arrows.
—American Indian Proverb
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.
—Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American Writer, Philosopher
As the Arab proverb says, The dog barks and the caravan passes. After having dropped this quotation, Mr. Norpois stopped to judge the effect it had on us. It was great; the proverb was known to us: it had been replaced that year among men of high worth by this other: Whoever sows the wind reaps the storm, which had needed some rest since it was not as indefatigable and hardy as, Working for the King of Prussia.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist
If we wonder often, the gift of knowledge will come.
—American Indian Proverb
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
—John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838–1923) British Political Leader, Writer, Editor, Journalist
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
—Denis Diderot (1713–84) French Philosopher, Writer
Judge not by the eye but by the heart.
—American Indian Proverb
To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.
—American Indian Proverb
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead.
Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow.
Walk beside me; that we may be as one.
—American Indian Proverb
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
—Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) English Statesman, Man of Letters
A good soldier is a poor scout.
—American Indian Proverb
You already possess everything necessary to become great.
—American Indian Proverb
In death, I am born.
—American Indian Proverb
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
—Sophocles (495–405 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
Don’t you go believing in sayings, Picotee: they are all made by men, for their own advantages. Women who use public proverbs as a guide through events are those who have not ingenuity enough to make private ones as each event occurs.
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928) English Novelist, Poet
Man has responsibility, not power.
—American Indian Proverb
In age, talk; in childhood, tears.
—American Indian Proverb
Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
—Will Rogers (1879–1935) American Actor, Rancher, Humorist
Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark.
—American Indian Proverb
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) English Poet, Literary Critic, Philosopher
They are not dead who live in the hearts they leave behind.
—American Indian Proverb
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