Sayings remain meaningless until they are embodied in habits.
All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self.
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.
[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.
Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of all the things which the Quran and Hadith [The recorded collections of the sayings and traditions of the Prophet] says of treating your enemy with dignity and kindness.
The truest sayings are paradoxical.
Ive learned the truth in these sayings: Luck is when opportunity meets preparation and The right project will find you.
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
A year at the breast is quite enough; children who are suckled longer are said to grow stupid, and I am all for popular sayings.
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of the profoundest and most useful truths.
One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.
To speak impartially, both sayings are very true: that man to man is a kind of God; and that man to man is an arrant wolf. The first is true, if we compare citizens amongst themselves; and the second, if we compare cities.
He knew how to say many false things that were like true sayings.
Vulgarism in language is the distinguishing characteristic of bad company, and a bad education. A man of fashion avoids nothing with more care than that. Proverbial expressions, and trite sayings, are the flowers of the rhetoric of vulgar man.
