The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.
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 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.
Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.
The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.
Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
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.
If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.