"The genius, wit and spirit of a nation are discovered in its proverbs." - Francis Bacon.
"Proverbs embody the current and practical philosophy of an age or nation." - William Fleming.
"Proverbs teach the real people's speech, and open up the hitherto sealed book of the native mind" - John Beames.
found it in preface of 'A Dictionary of Kashmiri Proverbs and Sayings' by James Hinton Knowles (1885).
