Top 1200 Mother Proverbs Quotes & Sayings

Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective.

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

We have been counseled to "seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom." It is pointed out in Proverbs, "Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom." (Proverbs 4:7.) But in getting wisdom and getting knowledge, above all we should "get understanding." It is important to learn a profession, learn a trade. That applies not only to the young men, but it applies to you young women as well. You girls should place yourselves in a position to be self-supporting and independent in the event that tragedy or an emergency comes, for emergencies have come and will continue to come.

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.

I quit being a VS model to be a Proverbs 31 wife.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.

Patch grief with proverbs.

One of my favorite Japanese proverbs is "Fall down 7 times, stand up 8".

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

For this reason, if you believe proverbs, let me tell you the common one: "It is unlucky to marry in May.

Proverbs 31 is God's definition of Evelyn Roberts.

He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

And also, one is a mother in order to understand the inexplicable. One is a mother to lighten the darkness. One is a mother to shield when lightning streaks the night, when thunder shakes the earth, when mud bogs one down. One is a mother in order to love without beginning or end.

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

Among the Igbo the art of conversation is regarded very highly, and proverbs are the palm-oil with which words are eaten.

I think that, when you play a mother, whether you play a bad mother or a not so great mother or an amazing mother, being a mother is already so complicated. It's already three-dimensional, automatically, no matter what the role is, because you're playing a mother.

I'm always looking for ways to explore the politics of the everyday. For me, the proverbs were a way of bringing in this ancient wisdom that in Arabic culture is often quoted. Those proverbs are such a huge part of the language and parts of people's every day. This is the wisdom that we use in our everyday life but we're not always listening to.

Proverbs, and the wisdom literature in general, counter the idea that being spiritual means handing all decisions over to the leading of the Lord. The opposite is true. Proverbs reveals that God does not make all people’s decisions for them, but rather expects them to use his gift of reason to interpret the circumstances and events of life within the framework of revelation that he has given. Yet when they have exercised their responsibility in decision-making, they can look back and see that the sovereign God has guided.

The strength of Ray Ortlund's study of Proverbs is its Christ-centeredness. The wisdom of Proverbs loses none of its practical value, but rather is given its ultimate fulfillment as an expression of the wisdom of Christ.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos.

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

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

I like the old wisdom--puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother.

I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.

Proverbs are for the most part rules of moral, or, still more properly, of prudential conduct.

Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs!

I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

My favorite book in the Bible is always Proverbs because it's where you can find wisdom for no matter what you're going through. It hits me every time I read it. I've always read Proverbs regularly because it helps me deal with what's happening every day in real life.

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

The use of proverbs is characteristic of an unlettered people. They are invaluable treasures to dunces with good memories.

Many of the historical proverbs have a doubtful paternity.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart.

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers.

Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation.

My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.

I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Sadly, God mentions no crowned nags in Proverbs.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22