Old Proverb Quotes

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

  Stan Laurel

  Horse, Teach A Man To Fish, Water

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

  Ric Keller

  Horse, Thinking, Water

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• There is no fool like an old fool.

  Betty White

  Fool, Playing The Fool

  Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.143, Penguin

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

  John Ray

  Wisdom, Gander, Geese

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

  Jacob Braude

  Fool, Beats, Playing The Fool

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• All is well that ends well

  Emily Rodda

  Wise, Drama, Italian

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

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• It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool

  Harold MacMillan

  Fool, Said, Has Beens

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

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

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Horse, Rampage, Feds

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• 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

  Kindness, Age, Weakness

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

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• 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

  Moving, Russia, Years

  Source: www.politico.com

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

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Companionship

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

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• 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

  Fool, Clients, Lawyer

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

  Stephen King

  May, Speak, Said

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

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

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Ideas, Speak, Produce

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• Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.

  Paulo Coelho

  Country, Boys, Night

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

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• 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

  Fire, Water, Imagination

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

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• 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

  Believe, Past, Connections

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• 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

  Eye, Keys, Perfect

  Richard J. Foster (1995*). “Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline”, Jossey-Bass

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• 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

  Food, America, Cooking

  Frederick Marryat (1839). “A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions”

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

  John Heywood

  Clerks, Forget, Priests

  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)”

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• 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

  Lying, Light, Want

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

  John Calvin

  Soul, Attention, Body

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

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

  Plutarch

  Mountain, Made, Mice

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

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