I learned real early why God gave us two ears and one mouth, because you're supposed to listen twice as much as you talk.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.
And he is oft the wisest manWho is not wise at all.
My Father always told me that a fool at 40 is a fool for life.
Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
Never name the well from which you will not drink.
What is a quote? A quote (cognate with quota) is a cut, a section, a slice of someone's orange. You suck the slice, toss the rind, skate away.
ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.
Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.
Although the sun shine, leave not thy cloake at home.
He never said a foolish thing nor never did a wise one.
But, as my mother used to tell me, two wrongs don't make a right. But I soon figured out that three left turns do.
The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.
There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.
There's a saying I remember from my grandmother: One today is worth two tomorrows.
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
Old saws have no teeth.
Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.
My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
The cat in gloves catches no mice.
