Top Proverb Quotes

The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only p...

Being bored is the price we pay for not being insane.

Proverb Definition

(n.) An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage.

(n.) A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.

(n.) A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.

(n.) A drama exemplifying a proverb.

(v. t.) To name in, or as, a proverb.

(v. t.) To provide with a proverb.

(v. i.) To write or utter proverbs.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own mo...

More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling i...

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Power is not pleasure, power is pain.

Life sometimes reminds us that it is sometimes heartless by giving something or someone we really need to someone who does not need or even want them or it.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Many a death was precipitated by the food, the job, or the medication whose main function was to postpone it.

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

Wise is the one who flavors the future with some salt from the past. Becoming dust is no threat to the phoenix born from the ash.

Millions of sane people would each be sexually attracted to their own parent or child if they were not related to them.

One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

A truly compassionate man gives a poor woman a portion of his meal before he eats, not after he has eaten.

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.