Proverbs are wise sayings and many times they have a lot of hidden meanings in it. None of the proverbs have an author its all the experience of a group of people or community in general expressed in the form of a small meaningful sentence. many times we don't 
understand our teacher but we can resonate with proverbs. That's the secret of proverbs.
Proverbs are not written by any poet or a professor we don't have any date for it its all passed from one person to another in the course of years proverbs may times are like self help
quotes these are for action takers make it a point to use it in our day to day conversation and try and implement in our daily activities proverbs also push  us make things happen