Sentence examples for famous proverb from inspiring English sources
A famous proverb written about rice serves as a metaphor for humility, a virtue the Japanese hold dear: "The heavier the head of rice, the deeper it bows".For all the lyricism, many Japanese are also disturbingly nationalistic over the foodstuff.
As the famous proverb says, one man's trash is another man's treasure.
Stay with me on this one... isn't there a famous proverb that states to truly know someone, we need to walk a mile in his/her shoes?
Another referred to a famous proverb used in one of the local dialects called Luganda that literally says: "You only complain about having received a small piece of meat if you have it firmly in your possession".
Remember the famous proverb "Prevention is better than cure".
Various famous proverbs of Blake's come to mind, but here the road to excess doesn't, in every case, lead to the palace of wisdom.
HONG KONG — Oft-cited in China is one of Mao Zedong's more famous proverbs: "Women hold up half the sky".
*Warning: Not a famous Thai proverb.
As a famous African proverb states: "If you want to go quickly, go alone.
It's a famous Thai proverb that Mark Hughes clearly hasn't encountered.
And what really interests us here is how humans, as much as building materials, provide that metaphorical awning: how, in the words of that famous Irish proverb, "people live in the shelter of each other".
