proverb

Example Sentences

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Isaiah Berlin, drawing on an ancient Greek proverb, famously observed that Leo Tolstoy was a foxlike writer who knew many things but longed to be someone who, like the hedgehog, knew one big thing.

From The Wall Street Journal

"There's an African proverb that says: 'When the elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers,'" the employee said.

From Barron's

The website led with what it called a proverb: “If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.”

From Los Angeles Times

Yet there is also the Chinese proverb ‘the beginning of all things is difficult.’

From Barron's

"There's a Korean proverb that says, 'after the rain, the ground hardens'."

From BBC