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“Proverbs 28:26
Those who trust in their own reasoning are fools, but those who walk in Wisdom will be kept safe.”
“Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
and lean not on your own understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.”
“Proverbs 31 belongs to the literary genre of heroic poetry, which is 'characterized by recounting the hero's mighty deeds, usually his military exploits.”
Source: Half the Church: Recapturing God's Global Vision for Women
“Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.”
“Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists’ shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.”
Source: Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence and of Persuasion, with Rules for Argumentative Composition and Elocution
“Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.”
Source: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES - Complete Collection: ALL 14 Books in One Volume (Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more): Including Letters and Autobiography of Lucy Maud Montgomery
“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.”
“Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.”
“Proverbs are not just meant for recalling and proffering but to impart practical wisdom which will impact on our actions.”
Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“Proverbs are potted wisdom.”
Source: Notes of Thought
“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha
“Proverbs are the palm oil with which words are eaten”
“Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective.”
“Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.”
“Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.”
Source: The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral and Metaphysical: With Quotations and References; for the Use of Students
“Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.”
“Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.”
Source: Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: Whereunto is Adjoined a Large Nomenclature of the Proper Terms (in All the Four) Belonging to Several Arts and Sciences, to Recreations, to Professions Both Liberal and Mechanick, &c. Divided Into Fiftie Two Sections; with Another Volume of the Choicest Proverbs in All the Said Toungs, (consisting of Divers Compleat Tomes)
“Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.”
“Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.”
Source: Getting on in the World: Or, Hints on Success in Life
“Proverbs were anterior to boots, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality.”
“Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.”
“Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of the Lord. The opposite is true. Proverbs reveals that God does not make all people’s decisions for them, but rather expects them to use his gift of reason to interpret the circumstances and events of life within the framework of revelation that he has given. Yet when they have exercised their responsibility in decision-making, they can look back and see that the sovereign God has guided.”
“Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.”
“Proverò a parlare di me. A presentarmi con parole mie. L'ho fatto tante volte quando ero a scuola. Ognuno di noi a turno doveva mettersi di fronte alla nuova classe e presentarsi. Era una cosa che odiavo. O meglio, più che odiarla non ne vedevo il senso. Che potevo saperne io di me stesso? Ero proprio io quel personaggio che riuscivo a percepire con la mia coscienza? Proprio come quando uno non riconosce la propria voce incisa su un registratore, mi chiedevo sempre se l'immagine che percepivo di me stesso non fosse un'immagine distorta che mi ero fabbricato su misura. Ogni volta che ero costretto a presentarmi davanti alla classe, mi alzavo in piedi con una sensazione di disagio. Mi sembrava di essere un truffatore. Per questa ragione cercavo sempre di dire solo fatti oggettivi, evitando interpretazioni o commenti: Ho un cane, mi piace nuotare, non mi piace il formaggio eccetera. Malgrado ciò provavo lo stesso la sensazione di star parlando dei fatti immaginari di una persona immaginaria. Anche quando ascoltavo gli altri, mi sembrava che parlassero tutti di qualcuno che non erano loro. Tutti vivevamo respirando l'area irreale di un mondo irreale.”
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“Proverò e riproverò. Non mi darò mai per vinto. Guarda laggiù, sulla brughiera. C'è un altro presagio. Lo terrò a mente. C'è sempre un altro arcobaleno.”
Source: The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
“Provide an excuse to a poor mind and you will be deemed as noble amongst mankind”
“Provide freedom for others to do the right actions like Egyes, Pooja, meditations, yoga or any other spiritual practice, simultaneously every social justice and social work for peaceful world. Allow your enthusiasm, faith and devotions to know your self to find peace, happiness and contentment from within. After achieved such great soul, you becomes what you think and what you imagine you create.”
“Provide good content and you’ll earn the right to promote your product.”
“Provide lots of opportunities for children's natural curiosity to manifest itself. With very young children, our role is one of supporter and guide.”
“Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.”
“Provide more service than what you get paid for”
“Provide of thine own, to have all things at hand;
Less work and the workman, unoccupied, stand.
Make dry over-head both hovel and shack.
Wash sheep (for the better) where water doth run;
Let him go cleanly, and dry in the sun.
Thy houses and and barns would be looked upon;
And all things a[...]ed, ere harvest come on.
At midsummer, down with the brambles and brakes;
And after, abroad, with thy forks and thy rakes;
Set movers a mowing, where meadow is grown;
The longer now standing, the worse to be mown.”
“Provide tremendous value to as many people as possible, and you will attract blessings into your life.”
Source: The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way
“Provide yourself with such work for your hands as can be done, if possible, both during the day and at night, so that you are not a burden to anyone, and indeed can give to others, as St. Paul the Apostle advises (cf. I Thess. 2:9; Eph. 4:28). In this manner you will overcome the demon of listlessness and drive away all the desires suggested by the enemy; for the demon of listlessness takes advantage of idleness. 'Every idle man is full of desires' (Prov. 13:4 LXX).”
“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.”
“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.”
Source: Emile
“Provided all the players agree, the game can happily and justly proceed. The same was true in a democracy, for just as a game exists for the pleasure of the players, so does government exist for the pleasure of citizens. As soon as government exists for any other reason than the pleasure of citizens, it has become exploitative.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“Provided one has the correct level of vitamin, mineral and nutritional input, the body can overcome disease.”
“Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.”
Source: The Screwtape Letters: Annotated Edition
“Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.”
Source: The Spiritual Conferences
“Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.”
Source: The Complete Novels of Jane Austen
“Provided that societies stay mindful of the challenges that capitalism creates and never forget the paramount importance of inclusion and equal opportunity, we can and should celebrate the miracle of free enterprise-and the billions of souls it has helped free from desperate poverty.”
“Provided that the City of London remains, as it is at present, the clearing-house of the world, any other nation may be its workshop.”
“Provided the development coordinator has a communications medium at least as good as the Internet and knows how to lead without coercion, many heads are inevitably better than one.”
Source: The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
“Provided they live a worthy life, both those who choose to dwell in the midst of noise and hubbub and those who dwell in monasteries, mountains and caves can achieve salvation. Solely because of their faith in Him God bestows great blessings on them. Hence those who because of their laziness have failed to attain salvation will have no excuse to offer on the day of judgment. For He who promised to grant us salvation simply on account of our faith in Him is not a liar.”
“Provided we can escape from the museums we carry around inside us, provided we can stop selling ourselves tickets to the galleries in our own skulls, we can begin to contemplate an art which re-creates the goal of the sorcerer: changing the structure of reality by the manipulation of living symbols ... Art tells gorgeous lies that come true.”
Source: T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism
“Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.”
“Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.”