A good-humored wife who appreciates most, if not all, of my humor - her price is far above rubies, as the book of Proverbs doesn't quite say.
Cleveland Abbe
My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs.
Gretchen Rubin
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.
James Howell
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
Jerry Falwell
I read the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs every day.