Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
Aldous Huxley
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.
Andrew Hudgins
When I encountered rich people for the first time, I discovered that not only do they holiday in places that are hard to find on a map, but that they also use the names of seasons as verbs. When they asked me, 'Where did you summer and winter growing up?' I would usually say, 'As a child? The same place I springed and autumned.'
Artie Lange
Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.
Benjamin Whorf
The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.
Beth Moore
I used to read five psalms every day - that teaches me how to get along with God. Then I read a chapter of Proverbs every day and that teaches me how to get along with my fellow man.
Billy Graham
Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
Bryan Burrough
Verbs allow you to communicate a story in a much more converged or involuntary way for a reader. The verbs allow you to come in under the radar, below people's defenses.
Chuck Palahniuk
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.
Cleveland Abbe
Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.
Daniel H. Wilson
Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs.
Denise Fleming
George Alessandro in New Jersey builds these great amplifiers. He was working on my Super Reverbs for years and he's kind of a vintage Marshall specialist. He built this amp and it's kind of a cross between a Dumble and a Super Reverb but a little juiced up with a little more power.
Derek Trucks
Adverbs lead to overwriting. Try taking them out and reading your prose again to see how it sounds. Simple and less words are more powerful.
Douglas Brunt
I'm obsessed with proverbs because, to me, flexing is being able to say the most with the least amount of words.
Earl Sweatshirt
The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.
Erez Lieberman Aiden
I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.
Erik Larson
You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong; verbs and nouns.
Ethan Canin
Adverbs, we know, are meant to modify a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. They help us understand things more clearly, more vividly, more... morely.
Faith Salie
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon
I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
Garrison Keillor
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.
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
Most people use twenty verbs to describe everything from a run in their stocking to the explosion of an atomic bomb.
I read the Old Testament, New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs every day.
My name is Jidenna, which means 'to hold or embrace the father' in Igbo. It was my father who gave me this name and who taught me countless parables, proverbs, and principles that made me the man I am today.
Our heart oft times wakes when we sleep, and God can speak to that, either by words, by proverbs, by signs and similitudes, as well as if one was awake.
Sometimes you can do things with Spanish - like verbs and genders - easier than you can in English.
Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.
Proverbs 31 is God's definition of Evelyn Roberts.
The verbs that are used for people who write quickly are almost never flattering.
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
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.
A truly empowered woman turns her values into verbs. She understands what she values most, and she takes steps to bring that value to life.
Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
I think we live in a unique time - the verbs that make up our online and mobile lives haven't been completely invented or imagined for us. That was kind of a life path I was on.
To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That's what Norman Mailer did. That's what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that's what I do - that's what I mean to do.
Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
I continue to do something I've done since I was 18, and that is read a chapter of Proverbs every day as part of my daily devotion. I still maintain that.
Many companies that become verbs actually end up modifying our behaviors, and companies that modify behaviors end up becoming behemoths.
I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewishness.'
The words I overuse are all adverbs.
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.
You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.
I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.
