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Hindus are very lucky to have 40,000 proverbs in Sanskrit and Tamil. About 100 years ago three foreigners compiled Tamil proverbs and translated them into English. Sanskrit has 20,000 Subhashitas, they are verses that convey wise sayings, moral instructions, and philosophical truths.
The interesting thing about those proverbs is that they are praised high by proverbs themselves!
Here are some good sayings:
It may be true what some men say;
It must be true what all men say,
Xxx
Old sayings contain no lies,
Old words are wise words.– Basque
Xxx
A good maxim is never out of reason.
All the good sense of the world runs into proverbs.
Proverbs are the children of experience.
Proverbs are the wisdom of the streets.
Proverbs lie on the lips of fools.
Infinite riches in a little room- Marlowe
A proverb is a half way house to a thought –Geo.Meredith
There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it- Archbishop Trench
With a little hoard of maxims, preaching down a daughter’s heart- Locksley Hall, Tennyson
A good saying is a good thing, and a proverb sometimes fits into a fancy better than a foot into a shoe- Marie Corelly
A frequent review of proverbs should enter into our reading- Issac Disraeli
A proverb is much matter decocted into few word- Thomas Fuller.
Centuries have not worm eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of mind- Issac Disraeli
For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase- Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
In ancient days , tradition says, when
knowledge was much stinted,
When few could teach , and fewer
preach , and books were not yet
printed.
What wisemen thought , by prudence
taught, they pithily expounded
And proverbs sage, from age to age
in every mouth abounded
O, blessings on the men of yore whom
Wisdom thus augmented ,
And left a store of easy lore for human
use invented.
Jewels five words long, that, on the
Stretched fore finger of time
sparkle for ever – Tennyson
to be continued………………..
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