A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.
If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb
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.
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.
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.
A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within. Arab proverb
Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.
The proverb is something musty.
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back. ” - Chinese proverb
A Japanese proverb says fall seven times, stand up eight. We can also say this: Hate zero times, love infinitely!
A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza. ) —BASQUE PROVERB
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).
In Russia, we have proverb: Only bad soldiers don't want to be general.
May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?
A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.
Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses. "
The tragedy of virtue is that the more obvious, boring, unoriginal, and sermonizing the proverb, the harder it is to implement.
We never get over our fathers, and we’re not required to. (Irish Proverb)