Old Proverb Quotes

Old Proverb Quote of the day

There is no fool like an old fool.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.'

All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.

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

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.

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