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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about experience

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Quote by Francis Bacon about genius, nation, spirit

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about experience

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about experience, mother

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.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about conversation, vulgarity, bad, rightness

Be careful! Not all the proverbs give you wisdom, some of them are tempting your wisdom.

Quote by Gavriil Stiharul about wisdom

"Bed" as the Italian proverb succintly puts it, "is the poor man's opera".

Quote by Aldous Huxley about opinion, man