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A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective.
Words spoken about the Way have no taste. When looked at, there's not enough to see. When listened to, there's not enough to hear. When used, it is never exhausted.
Understate and over-prove.
The truest sayings are paradoxical.
The cliches of a culture sometimes tell the deepest truths.
Patch grief with proverbs.
This wisdom is not formulaic and cannot be captured in words, for it has gone beyond words to a place where direct realization rather than conceptual verbalization is the essential mode of being.
The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.
Mocking precedes learning the hard way.
So here's something I know to be true, although it's a little corny, and I don't quite know what to do with it:
Sometimes the most ruthless heart speaks the most truth
Like a beautiful flower, full of colour, but without scent, are wise words when spoken, but fruitless these words are when not carried out by the speaker.
The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed.
Man does not live by words alone, in spite of the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
To lose is to die! You may win a thousand fights, but you can only lose one!
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult
at least I have found it so
than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind.
In order to succeed spectacularly you have to be willing to fail spectacularly.
Pretty words are not always true, true words are not always pretty; and yet, they are still true.
The easiest way is not always the best way
Wisdom is a mother;
proverbs are her offspring.
Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.
The proverb is something musty.
The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.
It doesn't help that your idiom is all at once playful, esoteric, and, at times, bemusing.
The best way to piss off your enemies is to out-succeed, out laugh and out live them.
Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is given its ultimate fulfillment as an expression of the wisdom of Christ.
When you compete with someone as good or better than you, you may not always win, but you never lose.
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
If you must fail, fail spectacularly.
The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of literature.
The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.
A demonstration is more than worth a thousand words.
A good simile,
as concise as a king's declaration of love.
The wisest people are often the simplest.
Generative metaphors and proverbs both derive their power from a clever substitution: They substitute something easy to think about for something difficult.
Love is proved by deeds; the more they cost us, the greater the proof of our love.
Who combats bravely is not therefore brave, He dreads a death-bed like the meanest slave: Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise,- His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies.
Proving the obvious has never been easy.
People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.
One word can sometimes be sharper than a thousand swords
Our lives are living testimonies.
Stand up like a mountain; have faith like a rock; love like an avalanche
Life is not a walk in the park nor an arrangement of flowers
A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.
Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.
In life's earnest battle they only prevail Who daily march onward and never say fail.
No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.
among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn
What one does easily, one does well.
The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.
One who loves roses cannot avoid its thorns.
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Life is very persistent and very ingenious in seizing every opportunity.
Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!
Failure is painful but false success is tragic
Sometimes you win by losing.
Every once in awhile we may fall on our face, but we insist on doing what we wanna do.
At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid.
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake
If you fight you won't always win. But if you don't fight you will always lose
The truth is helpless when up against perception
Actions speak louder than voice but words hurt harder than punches
honestly--then dishonestly.
Simple truths are never platitudes; they only become commonplace because we fail to live them profoundly.
Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready-made-up in the chemists' shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct Prescription.
There is no rose without thorns.
A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught.
A word is worth a thousand images.
You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist, ...
Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument.
A person's life persuades better than his word.
If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.
He who is determined to win does not give up
Stubbornly persist, and you will find that the limits of your stubbornness go well beyond the stubbornness of your limits
To stumble twice against the same stone is a Proverbsial disgrace.
With few words, one can speak the truth.
Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.
It does not take many words to tell the truth
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Stay humble or get humbled.
A wise man never speak too much of himself; his actions speaks for itself".
What is learned out of hard work and trial is inevitably more powerful than what is learned easily.
Failure is The Way of Success
The lessons learned hardest were the lessons learned best.
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. Collect and learn them; they are notable measures of directions for human life; you have much in little; they save time in speaking; and upon occasion may be the fullest and safest answer.
And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you're desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there's the least resistance, you lash yourself.
If you must fail," he said grandly, "fail spectacularly!
Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.
A fool stumbles when he walks; the wise are not hampered even when they run.
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
An aphorism needn't be true, but it should sound true.
Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.
There is a Japanese proverb that translates as 'the nail that sticks up gets hammered down.