Old Proverb Quotes:

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

source: "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Cato Major De Senectute, III. 7, p. 124-25, 1922.

topic: Companionship, Old Proverb

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

- Stan Laurel

topic: Horse, Water, Pencils, Horticulture, Old Proverb

You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think.

- Ric Keller

topic: Thinking, Water, Old Proverb, Wise Proverbs, Proverbs Wisdom

There is no fool like an old fool.

- Betty White

topic: Fool, Old Proverb, Playing The Fool

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

- John Ray

topic: Wisdom, Gander, Geese, Irish Proverbs, Old Proverb

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

- Jacob Braude

topic: Fool, Beats, Playing The Fool, Old Proverb

All is well that ends well

- Emily Rodda

source: Emily Rodda (2008). “The Key to Rondo”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

topic: Ends, Wells, Spanish Proverb, Meaning Well, Merchant Of Venice

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

- Harold MacMillan

topic: Growing Up, Fool, Firsts, Old Proverb, Playing The Fool

All's well that ends well.

- John Heywood

source: John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

topic: Wisdom, Finishing, Ends, Life Wisdom, Spanish Proverb

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

- Maimonides

source: "Fictional character: Ron Swanson". Parks and Recreation (TV Series). Telethon, www.imdb.com. 2010.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Old Proverb, Wise Chinese

As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage.

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

topic: Horse, Rampage, Feds, Old Proverb

There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness."

- Sylvester Stallone

source: "New Again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1985.

topic: Kindness, Age, Weakness, Kindness For Weakness, Old Proverb

There's an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates and the truth of the matter is the weak and feckless policy of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama has awakened an aggression in Russia that first appeared few years ago with their move in Georgia, now their move into Crimea, now their move into the wider Middle East and all the while, all we do is fold our arms and say we're not having talks anymore.

- Mike Pence

source: Source: www.politico.com

topic: Moving, Russia, Years, Feckless, Old Proverb

If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.

- Harry A. Blackmun

topic: Fool, Clients, Lawyer, Old Proverb

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

- Stephen King

source: Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

topic: May, Speak, Said, Gunslinger, Old Proverb

Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Ideas, Speak, Produce, Old Proverb

Every search begins with beginner’s luck. And every search ends with the victor’s being severely tested.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 15, 2014

topic: Alchemist, Luck, Beginners, Old Proverb, Victor's

The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.

- Letitia Elizabeth Landon

source: Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1852). “Romance and reality”, p.54

topic: Fire, Water, Imagination, Old Proverb

I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery.

- Ashwin Sanghi

topic: Believe, Past, Patterns, Old Proverb

There is an old proverb to the effect that 'all those who open their mouths, close their eyes!' The purpose of silence and solitude is to be able to see and hear. Control rather than no noise is the key to silence. James saw clearly that the person who could control his tounge is perfect (James 3:1-12). Under the Discipline of silence and solitude we learn when to speak and when to refrain from speaking.

- Richard J. Foster

topic: Eye, Keys, Perfect, Old Proverb

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

- Frederick Marryat

topic: America, Devil, Meat, Old Proverb

But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!

- John Heywood

source: John Heywood (1908). “Two Tudor "shrew" Plays - (1) John John the Husband, Tib His Wife, and Sir John the Priest, by John Heywood (c1533): And (2) Tom Tiler and His Wife, Anonymous (c1551)”

topic: Clerks, Forget, Priests, Parish, Old Proverb

If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.

- Bruce Springsteen

topic: Lying, Light, Want, Old Proverb

There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul.

- John Calvin

source: John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.90, Baker Books

topic: Soul, Attention, Body, Old Proverb

The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse.

- Plutarch

source: Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.814, 谷月社

topic: Mountain, Made, Mice, Old Proverb