Sentence examples for popular proverb from inspiring English sources

There is a popular proverb in Brazil: God is Brazilian, and the land is blessed.

The popular proverb about necessity being the mother of invention is certainly true for us.

The popular proverb that we should eat when we have a cold, but not when we have a fever makes some sense intuitively.

The phrase passed into several European languages as a popular proverb, including English, in which the first four words ("a rare bird in the land") are often used ironically.

There is a popular proverb: "Respect yourself, then you will be respected".

Some of the most popular proverbs are also some of the oldest, and it is surprising that they are often known in many languages of the world.

The infamy of the most powerful businessman in Syria is so great that popular proverbs are regularly altered to slander him.

"YOU don't know what you've lost, till it's gone," runs a popular Arabic proverb, but it was particularly prevalent on lips across the West Bank after Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) which runs the main chunk of a future Palestinian state, accepted the resignation of his prime minister, Salam Fayyad, on April 13th.

Then, citing a popular Turkish proverb — "We will burn a blanket to kill a flea" — he said, "We have told the Kurds, 'We are not afraid of you, but you should be afraid of us.' " (A Turkish diplomat I spoke to later was more direct: "We tell our Israeli and Kurdish friends that Turkey's good will lies in keeping Iraq together. We will not support alternative solutions").

Then, citing a popular Turkish proverb—"We will burn a blanket to kill a flea"—he said, "We have told the Kurds, 'We are not afraid of you, but you should be afraid of us.' " (A Turkish diplomat I spoke to later was more direct: "We tell our Israeli and Kurdish friends that Turkey's good will lies in keeping Iraq together. We will not support alternative solutions").

One of the most prominent comedians in Indonesia, Butet Kertaredjasa, persistently conveys that "urip iku mung mampir ngguyu" ("life is simply a stop for a laugh"), a twist from popular Javanese proverb "urip mung mampir ngombe" ("life is simply a stop for a drink") which refers to the superficiality and temporariness of living in this world compared to the anticipated eternal life in heaven.