A well known African Proverb warns that when a village fails to fully initiate a member of their youth, that youth will one day burn the whole village down just to feel it's warmth.
This well known German proverb "Better a horrifying end, than horror without an end", which the patient starts and the interviewer completes as suggested, embraces the meaning of this WTD as a wish to shorten the dying process in order not to have to wait for death to arrive.
May I invite my friend to next month's gathering, which I am hosting Anonymous You know the proverb: Give a woman an invitation to a hoity-toity party, and you entertain her for an evening; teach her to get along with the co-host, and you entertain her for life.
There's an Internet proverb known as Rule 34, which declares the precise wording varies—"If it exists, there is porn of it".
The proverb known in English as "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" originated in medieval Latin, and variants of it are found in Romanian, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, German, and Icelandic.
As played by Ewan McGregor, Sky is dapper and cool, but deep down a decent, religious guy who knows his Proverbs from his Isaiah.
The best-known proverb of "The Way to Wealth" has vexed generations of the lazy-boned and sleepy-headed.
Here's a lesser-known proverb to remember if you happen to find yourself in Katmandu: Always look a gift Buddha in the ear.
This usage is prominent in the proverbs known as beatitudes, which have the form, "Happy is the one who.... .. English translators have often preferred "blessed," but "happy" is more common today.
