proverb
Example Sentences
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I conclude not with a joke but with a proverb at the essence of most Jewish jokes: What is as whole as a Jew with a broken heart?
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.
If this is the bane of the sea—the first one in the proverb— I don’t think I’m going to make it to the other ones.
From Literature
As the proverb tells us, “Speech is silver, silence is golden.”
From Literature
"There's an African proverb that says: 'When the elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers,'" the employee said.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
