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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
A made-up proverb from Dreams of the Compass Rose says, "In the desert, the only god is a well." I love exploring the intensity of such juxtaposition, the dangerous edge.
There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?
Caveat emptor is the only motto going, and the worst proverb that ever came from the dishonest stony-hearted Rome.
I know there's a proverb which that says 'To err is human,' but a human error is nothing to what a computer can do if it tries.
There's an African proverb that I always quote as I think it's incredible which is, 'if the children are not initiated into the village, then they'll burn it down just to feel its warmth.'
And as the Italian proverb says, 'Revenge is the dish which people of taste prefer to eat cold.'
For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated: “Hunt when hungry, sleep when not, for hunger always returns.
We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.
The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is.
There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB
Don't assume a parable narrates something that actually happened. Recognize that apocalyptic is filled with symbols. Expect a lot of metaphors in poetry. Don't treat a proverb as an exception-less absolute.
According to the Spanish proverb, four persons are wanted to make a good salad: a spendthrift for oil, a miser for vinegar, a counsellor for salt and a madman to stir it all up.
A bird in the hand was worth two in the bush, he told her, to which she retorted that a proverb was the last refuge of the mentally destitute.
Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it."
Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!” he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say ‘out of the frying-pan into the fire’ in the same sort of uncomfortable situations.
The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.
When I think of Peter Wolf I always remember the Portuguese proverb: 'Never say you will not drink from that glass again.'
There is an ancient tribal proverb I once heard in India. It says that before we can see properly we must first shed our tears to clear the way.
If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself.
Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'
It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?
There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
For your popular rumour, unlike the rolling stone of the proverb, is one which gathers a deal of moss in its wanderings up and down.
Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.
A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!
The old Indian proverb holds true. Once you've cut off a person's nose, there's no point in giving him a rose to smell.
There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
As a doctor and father, I often come back to the proverb, 'Speak out on behalf of the voiceless, and for the rights of all who are vulnerable' - and that's how I plan to serve Virginia as governor, too.
The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not.
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.
Curse away! And let me tell thee, Beausant, a wise proverb The Arabs have,-"Curses are like young chickens, And still come home to roost."
In India, I learned a proverb that says, 'Distrust the calculation seven times over, the mathematician a hundred times.'
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master.
There is a proverb that says, ‘Talk so that I may know who you are.’ But I say, ‘Show me your eyes and I will know who you are.
We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.
Equals, the proverb goes, delight in equals.
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.
According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk!
The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.
Money, says the proverb, makes money. When you have got a little, it is often easy to get more.
There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
An ancient proverb summed it up when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, it ran, he is tired of life.
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall.
Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it.
There is an Italian proverb which saith, From my enemy let me defend myself; but from a pretensed friend Lord deliver me
Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like.
My first tattoo is a French proverb, and it says, 'Dream your life, live your dreams.'
I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: Leave no stone unturned.
I said that I loved the wise proverb, Brief, simple and deep; For it I'd exchange the great poem That sends us to sleep.
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
There is hardly a mistake which in the course of our lives we have committed, but some proverb, had we known and attended to its lesson, might have saved us from it.
Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.
