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But I'm also put in mind of another proverb, one of my own making: that the quality of a movie tends to be inversely proportional to the quality of the literary source on which it's based.
He might also be acquainted with another proverb journalists embrace: "The pen is mightier than the sword".
But it was in an unscripted question and answer session with students following his speech that Priebus used a variant of another proverb, about rotting fish, to describe Obama's presidency.
Yet, another proverb also comes to mind: "When the last tree has been cut down, the last fish caught, the last river poisoned, only then will we realize that one cannot eat money".
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Let me quote another Chinese proverb -- we have too many proverbs in China.
As we got up to leave at the end of the interview in Mr. Jiang's summer palace, where foreigners are rarely invited, the Chinese leader had just one last thing to say: "Let me quote another Chinese proverb: 'It takes two hands to clap.' ".
Another local proverb also narrated by Serafín states that 'The shepherd's wife should sew stockings and save' and indicates that a shepherd's life took place far from home, distanced from household chores which would be carried out exclusively by his wife.
Another Iranian proverb says that "Necessity can change a lion into a fox".
There is another West African proverb: "it is a fool whose tomatoes are sold to him".
(Another favorite: the Korean proverb "Knows his way; stops seeing").
"A fisherman," according to an old Russian proverb, "can spot another fisherman from far away".
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