A Quote by Thomas Wyatt

For like to like, the proverb saith.

Thomas Wyatt

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Thomas Wyatt
English - Poet
1503 - October 11, 1542

For as saith a proverb notable, Each thing seeketh his semblable.

Thomas Wyatt

For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying.

Aeschylus

There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me

Elizabeth I

Look who's calling the cauldron black." "Kettle. It’s a kettle. Get your metaphors right." "That wasn’t a metaphor. It was a, you know..." He stared off into space, blinking. "One of those things that’s symbolic of another thing. But isn’t the same thing. Just like it." "You mean a metaphor?" "No! It’s like a story...like...a proverb! That’s it." "I’m pretty sure that wasn’t a proverb. Maybe it was an analogy." "I don’t think so.

Richelle Mead

Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Body am I, and soul" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?

Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

John Keats

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.

Rebecca L. Walkowitz

I like the Chinese proverb: If a horse is yours, it will always come back!

Vivienne Westwood

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb

Alvin Toffler

It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes Him no God, the other a deformed, unlovely, and a detestable God. He that saith God is not holy speaks much worse that he that saith there is no God at all.

Stephen Charnock

Those who hear and do not understand are like the deaf. Of them the proverb says: "Present, they are absent."

Heraclitus

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

Mark Twain

Art to me means lot of things - images and words. I may be no artist myself, but I recognise the pleasure you get from a new proverb or a new painting. It puts you in a particular frame of mind. Visually I like art, philosophically I like art.