Best Proverb Quotes

"The mountain is high and the emperor is far away."

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."

"What happens in the dark always comes to light."

"Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."

"If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."

"March comes in like a lion, goes out like a lamb."

"Be careful, the devil is always in the details."

"You can lead a horse to water, but some of them won't drink."

"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together."

"You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink."

"Hey, you know what they say, nothing ventured, nothing gained."

"One man's garbage is another man's treasure."

"The famous proverb that it takes a village to raise a child is something that rings incredibly true here."

"We live, as the Chinese proverb says, 'May you live in interesting times.' We most assuredly do."

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch."

"Behind every great man, there is a great woman."

"What happens in the dark must come to the light."

"I said well, where there's a will, there's a way."

"A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger."

"The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world."

"You catch more bees with honey than with vinegar."

"Success has many fathers; failure is an orphan."

"Money is like a bar of soap. The more you handle it, the less you're going to have."

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions, is all I'll say about that for now."

"If you want to make an omelette, you got to break a few eggs."

"You attract more flies with honey than you do with vinegar."

"When the righteous are in Authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people mourn." - Proverbs 29:2

"You can lead a horse to water but you can't always make him drink."

"The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself."

"Teach a man to fish and he'll eat for the rest of his life."

"Living in glass houses and throwing rocks, people shouldn't throw hard stuff."

"If you give a man a fish you feed him for a day. If you're teaching a man to fish you feed him for the rest of his life."

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."

"Live makes it halfway around the earth before the truth gets his shoes on."

"As the old saying goes, 'Pride goeth before the fall.'"

"If life gives you lemons, you make lemonade out of it."

"If you give them an inch, you're gonna take a mile."

"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. Just because you're thirsty."

"If you're gonna seek revenge, you know the saying goes: be prepared to dig two graves."

"You can never wake someone who's pretending to be asleep."

"There's a proverb, the best time to plant the tree is twenty years ago."

"The road to hell is always paved with good intentions."

"Every dog has their day as they say, so it's been interesting these last couple of days."

"Insanity is doing the exact same thing over and over again."

"An ounce of prevention is worth more than the cure, blah blah blah."

"You don't get to have your cake and eat it too."

"One man's trash is another man's treasure, indeed."

"Give a man a fish, he eats for a day; teach a man to fish, he fishes for life."

"You can't make an omelet without breaking some eggs."

"A journey of 1,000 miles starts with the first step."

"Grains of sand make a heap; you won't recognize the history until it's passed."

"You catch more flies with honey than you do vinegar."

"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

"Time flies when you're having fun, doesn't it?"

"Give me a child until it is 7 and I will show you the man."

"There's almost always a way, Sunny. Where there's a will, there's a way."

"If you want a job well done, do it yourself."

"Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Okay, good advice."

"It would be a shame if thunder struck at the same spot twice."

"But I get it, you know, the grass is always greener on the other side."

"You stand on the shoulders of your ancestors."

"Cleanliness is next to Godliness or something like that."

"Speak softly, carry a big stick." - Frank Reagan

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant to that corruption."

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions... it makes the problems worse."

"A man who represents himself has a fool for a client."

"Give them an inch and they'll take a kilometer."

"You catch more flies with honey than vinegar."

"Victorious warriors win first, then go to war."

"Every cloud has a silver lining if you know where to look."

"You can't fit a square peg into a round hole."

"Actions speak louder than words at the end of the day."

"The child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth."

"Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain. You can't have a rainbow without a little rain."

"Gamers they say all work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy."

"May you live in interesting times. These are interesting times indeed."

"In the world of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."

"All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

"You can fool someone once, but you can’t fool them twice."

"There's truth to the saying, 'Fortune favors the Bold.'"

"The tangled webs we weave when we seek to deceive."

"Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy and wise."

"Success has many fathers but failure is a wolf."

"There is a way that seems right to a man... but its end is the way of death."

"After all, nothing ventured, nothing gained."

"Only when lions have historians will the hunters cease to be heroes."

"Out of sight, out of mind. When you're always on site, you're always in mind."

"Jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than a master of one."

"An eye for an eye only makes the world go blind."

"If the duck's sticking, then keep them ticking."

"If you give a man a fish, you can feed him for a day, but if you teach a man to fish, you can feed him for a lifetime."

"Better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it."

"The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is good men to do nothing."

"Tsunade's favorite phrase is 'one grab a thousand gold,' which refers to getting rich without much effort."

"If you want to go fast, you go alone. If you want to go far, you have to go with other people."

"There's a reason they say the house always wins."

"Curiosity is probably going to kill the cats."

"Those who play with fire will burn themselves."

"May you live in interesting times" - a kind of depth to the thing.

"When you chase two rabbits, you catch neither."

"History does not repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme."

"History doesn't always repeat itself but it sometimes rhymes."

"Success has many fathers and failure is orphan."

"Sometimes you're counting your eggs before they hatch."

"Teach them to fish, you feed them for a lifetime."

"As they say the proof is always in the pudding."

"You have to break some eggs to make an omelette."

"If wishes were horses, then Beggars would ride."

"You can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen."

"You don't want to let it go. Power, what is it? What's that phrase? Absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"Behind every great fortune lies a great crime..."

"If you want peace, you do have to prepare for war."

"The devil that you know is better than the devil that you don't."

"A run saved is a run earned." - Benjamin Franklin

"Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you. And they've done that more than twice, it's happened many, many times."

"Can't catch lightning twice. You can catch it once."

"Once it hits the fan, baby, does it hit the fan."

"You can catch more flies with honey than you can with salt."

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux."

"Wherever there is smoke, there's fire, and from my position, I certainly can see a hell of a lot of smoke." - Leonard Stringfield

"A broken watch gives the right time twice a day."

"Sunlight is the best disinfectant, absolutely."

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained away by stupidity."

"Every dog has a day." - Implying that everyone gets their moment of reckoning.

"Actions speak louder than words, yes they do."

"Let justice be done though the skies may fall."

"Images talk more than words, right? One image is worth a thousand words, I think the saying goes."

"All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost."

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone."

"You either live long enough to see yourself become the villain."

"A friend of everybody is a friend of nobody, Chili."

"The lie travels halfway around the world before the truth straps on his boots."

"Stick in there, slow and steady wins the race."

"Remember, as they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

"There is no honor among thieves; take it from me."

"You give some people lemons and they'll make lemonade."

"Better late than never, or whatever the saying goes."

"Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - Ben

"The road to hell was paved with good intentions."

"The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, but the righteous are as bold as a lion."

"History doesn't usually repeat itself but it often rhymes."

"They do say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions."

"The devil you know beats the devil you don't."

"Just don't bite the hand that feeds you, and that applies to so much of life."

"One man's trash could be another man's treasure."

"Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor."

"You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs."

"Those who live by the sword will die by the sword."

"You play stupid games and you win stupid awards."

"You mess with fire long enough, you'll get burned."

"Remember, a picture is worth a thousand words."

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions sometimes."

"There are none so blind as those who refuse to see."

"An ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure."

"Revenge is a dish best served cold, my friend."

"People living in glass houses should not throw stones."

"The road to hell is paid with good intentions."

"Teach a man how to fish, and he can eat for a lifetime."

"Ask and you shall receive kind of to a fault."

"When the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold."

"Excuses have short legs... you cannot excuse all the time."

"One man's trash is another man's treasure, right?"

"Let's just slow and steady wins the race right?"

"The devil you know is better than the angel you don't know."

"Beggars can't be choosers, so we'll take our left hand and just keep moving."

"Absence makes the heart fonder or something."

"If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, smells like a duck, it's a duck."

"Better the devil you know than the devil you don't, at least not yet."

"If you chase two rabbits, you will lose them both."

"You live by the sword, you die by the fucking sword."

"Charade's sitting around talking about Kenya and Candy is basically the old adage personified: 'Hurt people hurt people.'"

"An Arab proverb states, 'Man fears Time, yet Time fears the pyramids.'"

"Curiosity killed the cat, but innocent situations can save the cat."

"Better the devil you know than the ones that you don't, you know."

"The proof is in the eating of the pudding, as they say."

"Drastic times call for drastic measures, my friends."

"The grass is always greener where you water."

"If power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely."

"A lie is halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to put its pants on."

"The road to hell is paved with good intentions." - Video narrator

"Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he eats for life."

"God helps those who help themselves, ain't that the truth."

"You can lead a horse to water but you cannot force a horse to drink."

"You can always rebuild the road, you can never refine the treasure. Put that on my tombstone."

"What's one person's trash is another person's treasure."

"If you are not part of the solution, then you are probably part of the problem."

"It takes a village to raise a child." - Hillary Clinton

"It feels great to be able to show you guys my room and my little room because it is my absolutely most favorite room in the whole house."

"Iron sharpens iron so one man sharpens another."

"Keep your enemies close, but your friends closer."

"The road to hell is paved with works in progress."

"Until lions have historians, the hunters will always be heroes."

"It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thoughtful than open it and remove all doubt."

"Piss-poor planning promotes piss-poor performance."

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained, I suppose."

"Good things come to those who wait." - Bianca Bel-Air

"It ain't the size of the dog in the fight; it's the size of the fight in the dog."

"They say revenge is a dish best served cold."

"A lie can spread all the way around the world while truth is still putting on its pants in the morning."

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine."