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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge

Education, Alone, Nothing

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Lewis Carroll

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas Szasz

Yourself, Hand, Maybe

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Words, Matter, Few

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

Experience, Long, Short

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
Soichiro Honda

Life, Best, After

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Miguel de Cervantes

Experience, Mother, True

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

Wrong, Miss, Forever

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
Nicholson Baker

Life, Power, Friend

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
John Morley

Good, Sense, Point

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.
George Gissing

Time, Money, Truth

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
Bill Bradley

Love, Time, Hate

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.
Lord John Russell

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