Sentence examples for familiar saying from inspiring English sources

Even so, many Filipinos accept the familiar saying that their elections produce no losing candidates, only the winners and those who have been cheated.

In time, then, Dr Blythe's agents may serve to vindicate another familiar saying about computers: that behind every error blamed on computers there are at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.

"Try Again" consisted mainly of Aaliyah mouthing a familiar saying over and over again, a kind of musical hypnosis: "If at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off and try again".

When I was a little girl I learned that familiar saying "stick and stones may break your bones, but words can never hurt you".

"There's a familiar saying about 'rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic,' but the problem the Republicans now find themselves facing might instead be called 'changing cruise directors on the Titanic.' No matter who is in charge of the Lido Deck, unless you change course that ship's still going to hit that iceberg, folks.

According to a familiar saying, "Prohibition is an excellent thing for the other feller," and the confusion that belongs to this attitude accounts for not a little of the contradiction between law and habit in America which arouses the scorn of Europeans.

"Looks familiar," said Rooney.

But who? "He looks familiar," said another.

"I thought he looked familiar," said Amy Alesevich, 22, of Stratford.

"The path to general search engines is well-worn and familiar," says Susannah Fox of Pew.

"I knew that guy looked familiar," says one shopper, who stops to watch the demo.