Definition of proverbs

"proverbs" in the noun sense

1. proverb, adage, saw, byword

a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people

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Quotations for proverbs

The abridgments of wisdom. [ Joubert ]

Patch grief with proverbs. [ William Shakespeare ]

Proverbs are potted wisdom. [ Charles Buxton ]

Sense, shortness, and salt. [ James Howell ]

Infinite riches in a little room. [ Marlowe ]

Too much is always bad; old proverbs call
Even too much honey nothing else than gall. [ Anon ]

The wit of one man, and the wisdom of many. [ Earl Russell ]

Wise men make proverbs, and fools repeat them. [ Proverb ]

Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers. [ Disraeli ]

Potted wisdom: Short sentences drawn from long experiences. [ Cervantes ]

If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory. [ Sir Henry Sidney ]

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. [ W. R. Alger ]

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. [ William Penn ]

Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation. [ William Fleming ]

The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs. [ Bacon ]

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

Proverbs are, for the most part, rules of morals, and as such are often effective. [ Rev. Dr. Sharp ]

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. [ Emerson ]

Jewels five words long, that on the stretched forefinger of all Time sparkle forever. [ Tennyson ]

The proverbs of a nation furnish the index to its spirit, and the results of its civilization. [ J. G. Holland ]

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

The study of proverbs may be more instructive and comprehensive than the most elaborate scheme of philosophy. [ Motherwell ]

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

I would fain coin wisdom - mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. [ Joubert ]

Proverbs were anterior to books, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. [ Disraeli ]

Short, isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts for the regulation of human conduct. [ Warburton ]

The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded. [ W. G. Simms ]

How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism! [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and seasonably applied; but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar. [ Cervantes ]

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed. [ Lavater ]

Proverbs are somewhat analogous to those medical formulas which, being in frequent use, are kept ready made up in the chemists' shops, and which often save the framing of a distinct prescription. [ Whately ]

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books, and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time. [ Bacon ]

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down to the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the common sense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit. [ Edwin Percy Whipple ]

We frequently fall into error and folly, not because the true principles of action are not known, but because for a time they are not remembered; he may, therefore, justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind. [ Johnson ]

proverbs in Scrabble®

The word proverbs is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 15

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters proverbs:

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Seven Letter Word Alert: (3 words)

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proverbs in Words With Friends™

The word proverbs is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 18

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters proverbs:

PROVERBS
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Seven Letter Word Alert: (3 words)

probers, proverb, provers

 

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Words within the letters of proverbs

2 letter words in proverbs (6 words)

3 letter words in proverbs (13 words)

6 letter words in proverbs (9 words)

7 letter words in proverbs (3 words)

8 letter words in proverbs (1 word)

proverbs + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence proverbs

Words that start with proverbs (1 word)

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Words that end with proverbs (1 word)

Word Growth involving proverbs

Shorter words in proverbs

rove prove prover proverb

over rover prover proverb

rove rover prover proverb

verb proverb

verb verbs

Longer words containing proverbs

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