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Quotes about proverbs
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. (Bacon Francis)
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. (Bacon Francis)
There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems. (Bacon Francis)
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience. (Bacon Francis)
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. (Bacon Francis)
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. (Bacon Francis)
What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul. (Bacon Francis)
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. (Bacon Francis)
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. (Bacon Francis)
For proverbs are the pith, the proprieties, the proofs, the purities, the elegancies, as the commonest so the commendablest phrases of a language. To use them is a grace, to understand them a good. (Bacon Francis)
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. (Bacon Francis)
A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions. (Bacon Francis)
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. (Bacon Francis)
He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind. (Bacon Francis)
They are like the clue in the labyrinth, or the compass in the night. (Bacon Francis)
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it. (Bacon Francis)
Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books. (Bacon Francis)
A proverb is good sense brought to a point. (Bacon Francis)
A proverb is the child of experience. (Bacon Francis)
A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs. (Bacon Francis)
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. (Bacon Francis)
The proverb is something musty. (Bacon Francis)
Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. (Bacon Francis)
A short saying often contains much wisdom. (Bacon Francis)
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. (Bacon Francis)
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