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• "What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings -- they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong."
  By: ^ Douglas, Norman
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• "No people require maxims so much as the American. The reason is obvious: the country is so vast, the people always going somewhere, from Oregon apple valley to boreal New England, that we do not know whether to be temperate orchards or sterile climate."
  By: ^ Dahlberg, Edward
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• "What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
  By: ^ Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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• "I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."
  By: ^ Cervantes, Miguel De
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• "I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences."
  By: ^ Cervantes, Miguel De
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• "Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience."
  By: ^ Cervantes, Miguel De
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• "There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems."
  By: ^ Carlyle, Thomas
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• "How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism."
  By: ^ Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.
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• "Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you."
  By: ^ Baker, Nicholson
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• "The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs."
  By: ^ Bacon, Francis
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• "Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind."
  By: ^ Alger, William R.
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• "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar."
  By: Unknown
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• "You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear."
  By: Unknown
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• "Worrying never did anyone any good."
  By: Unknown
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• "When the cat's away the mice will play."
  By: Unknown
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• "We've arrived, and to prove it we're here."
  By: Unknown
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