Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people want it.
—American Indian Proverb
Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.
—American Indian Proverb
Precepts and maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand, do more toward a wise and happy life, than whole volumes of cautions that we know not where to find.
—Charles Simmons (1924–2017) American Editor, Novelist
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
All who have died are equal.
—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
It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest.
—American Indian Proverb
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
A good soldier is a poor scout.
—American Indian Proverb
No answer is also an answer.
—American Indian Proverb
One finger cannot lift a pebble.
—American Indian Proverb
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
—George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
—Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist
To touch the earth is to have harmony with nature.
—American Indian Proverb
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
Never sit while your seniors stand.
—American Indian Proverb
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated, I will not be ashamed.
—American Indian Proverb
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
—Denis Diderot (1713–84) French Philosopher, Writer
A starving man will eat with the wolf.
—American Indian Proverb
A people without faith in themselves cannot survive.
—American Indian Proverb
In age, talk; in childhood, tears.
—American Indian Proverb
It is easy to be brave from a distance.
—American Indian Proverb
Take only what you need and leave the land as you found it.
—American Indian Proverb
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night.
—Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French Writer, Moralist
The weakness of the enemy makes our strength.
—American Indian Proverb
Do not speak of evil for it creates curiosityin the hearts of the young.
—American Indian Proverb
He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.
—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
Don’t talk unless you can improve the silence.
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine Writer, Essayist, Poet