Sentence examples for a proverb in from inspiring English sources

"There is a proverb in Afghanistan," he said.

"There is a proverb in Chinese that a distant relative may not be as useful as a near neighbor," Mr. Li said.

It's a proverb in the Rigveda, a sacred Indian text, and Dowd, between bites of a bagel, cites it as one of his favorite quotes.

"We have a proverb in Mandinka: 'You just have to do your time and one day you'll be gone.' Your time is a short one.

"There is a proverb in Kuwait that asks, 'If you have soup, why put it in someone else's bowl?' " said Assad al-Fadli, 34, a Kuwaiti who packed his family in their car in late January to drive 900 miles for a five-week winter vacation in Syria.

'The German-, French- and Italian-speaking Swiss have larger countries that speak their languages, but for the Romansch people, there is no land behind us.' There is a proverb in Romansch she is particularly fond of: 'Vi dal chant as cugnuoscha l'utschè – you will know the bird from its song.

Cooking advice that might as well be a proverb: "Stock in the freezer is like money in the bank: useful in so many ways".

(A favorite proverb: "In a garden the flowers are diverse, but the water is one").

At Buckingham Palace in April, the prime minister began her Commonwealth toast with a Māori proverb, in a video that has been watched tens of thousands of times.

As Ronald Regan said (quoting a Russian proverb) in a very different context, "Trust but verify".

As much as we smile at a proverb quoted in "The Philadelphia Story" — "With the rich and mighty, always a little patience" — a New York street is not "the private preserve" of anyone.