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sayings

noun as in maxim, proverb

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This week I also gave a lot of thought to many of the sayings in our lexicon that need updating.

Sometimes he would send odd sayings, like “Sex does a body good.”

Here are some more of these full-bodied writings and sayings that only this vigorous appreciator could bring us for so many years.

On May 24, at a political rally in South Tel Aviv, politicians egged on a crowd with sayings like, “Sudan is not here.”

But new wisdom is constantly being created, and many sayings have gone “viral” in the 20th and 21st centuries.

He will keep the sayings of renowned men, and will enter withal into the subtilties of parables.

Since that he has made his almanacs without weatherwise sayings, leaving every man to guess for himself.

The work is dedicated to Humphrey King, a tobacconist, and is full of curious sayings in regard to the plant.

She has been associated with Deppe for years in teaching, and "keeps all his sayings and ponders them in her heart."

His sayings come to us through several hands, and through more than one translation.

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On this page you'll find 12 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sayings, such as: saw, statement, byword, aphorism, dictum, and truism.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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