Cynthia Ozick Quotes

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

The proverb answers where the sermon fails.

There is an old American saying 'He who lives in a glass house should not try to kill two birds with one stone.

There is no proverb that is not true.

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

A trite popular saying, or proverb. (Figurative and colloquial.) So called because it makes its way into a wooden head. Following are examples of old saws fitted with new teeth.

Curiosity killed the cat,” Fesgao remarked, his dark eyes unreadable. Aly rolled her eyes. Why did everyone say that to her? “People always forget the rest of the saying,” she complained. “‘And satisfaction brought it back.

APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.

A witty saying proves nothing.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

A proverb is one man’s wit and all men’s wisdom.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

The counsels of the old, like the winter sun, shine, but give no heat.

O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

Though old and wise, yet still advise.