Proverbs

Famous quotes containing the word proverbs:

“The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens; by his knowledge the deeps broke open, and the clouds drop down the dew.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 3:19-20.

“Who is so deaf or so blind as he
That wilfully will neither hear nor see?”
—16th century English proverb, collected in J. Heywood, Dialogue of Proverbs (1546)

“Wealth hastily gotten will dwindle, but those who gather little by little will increase it.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 13:11.