Sentence examples for English proverb from inspiring English sources
"And this tattoo is an old English proverb".
Don, our pilot, captures the spirit entirely with an old English proverb: "It's a long road that has no turning".
(He adapted the slogan from the traditional English proverb "An apple before going to bed keeps the doctor from earning his bread").
One of the earliest English proverb collections is the so-called Proverbs of Alfred (c. 1150 80), containing religious and moral precepts.
There is a homely English proverb which may help to clear the situation which is this: "You cannot rouse the Britisher unless you touch his pocket". That is literally true.
Perhaps the park's long tradition of goat-friendliness has something to do with the fact that the word Gotham, according to the New York Public Library, is borrowed from a reference in old English proverbs to "a village called Gotham or Gottam, meaning 'Goat's Town' in old Anglo-Saxon," a village of simple-minded fools.
The most recognizable early usage of cunt is written in the Middle English Proverbs of Hendyng from around 1325, which says, "Ȝeue þicunte to cunnig, And crave affetir wedding".
Also, especially nowadays, people directly translate English proverbs.
Her speech, alternating between slangy English and proverb-laden Mandarin, puts one in mind of a human split screen.
The phrase passed into several European languages as a popular proverb, including English, in which the first four words ("a rare bird in the land") are often used ironically.
