| 1. | I was quite a proverb for it at Maple Grove. - from Emma by Jane Austen |
| 2. | "She remembered the proverb about the good dying young, I suppose. - from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie |
| 3. | A proverb never stale in thrifty mind. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 4. | The ancient proverb will be well effecte. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | You are the hare of whom the proverb goes. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | wedded Well may that be a proverb of a shrew. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 7. | The proverb you need to go by is 'Look before you leap'--especially into spare-room beds.. - from Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery |
| 8. | A very old proverb in French, German, and Latin. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 9. | And, might we lay th' old proverb to your charge. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 10. | The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israe. - from The King James Bible |
| 11. | You are the better at proverbs by how much 'A fool's bol. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 12. | And he spake three thousand proverbs and his songs were a thousand and five. - from The King James Bible |
| 13. | He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 14. | These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. - from The King James Bible |
| 15. | Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepare. - from The King James Bible |
| 16. | the contrast Troilus, however, still begs his friend to leave him to mourn in peace, for all his proverbs can avail nothing. - from The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer |
| 17. | Thou hast nourished us with strong food for men, and powerful proverbs do not let the weakly, womanly spirits attack us anew at desser. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 18. | These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. - from The King James Bible |