The word proverb is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a short, traditional saying that expresses a general truth or piece of advice. For example: "A stitch in time saves nine," is an old proverb.
Let's start to replace this with the Nigerian proverb: "the earth moves at different speeds depending on who you are".
There is an ancient Bosnian proverb that says that 'a tree does not grow from the sky'.
He summed it up in the words of a Russian proverb: "If you ride slowly, you get much further".
If, as the medieval German proverb had it, city air makes you free, City air is expensive, and it's an unfamiliar experience to get this much room in the Square Mile, outside St Paul's Cathedral or a livery hall.
"A Dutch butter company came up with the idea of a public reconciliation under the slogan 'Everything In Butter Again', which is a German proverb meaning that everything is OK again," said Völler.
Instead, he repeated his favourite proverb: "Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter".
Guan Tao, an official with the foreign-exchange regulator, sounded such a warning this month, citing an ancient proverb: "A wise man should not stand next to a dangerous wall".
Can you guess which drink, according to a Turkish proverb, is the "pimp that brings fish and men together"?
FROM OUR CHINA CORRESPONDENT ONE speck of rat's shit", says a Chinese proverb, "ruins the entire pot of rice".
In a book on native women that she published last year, Ms Mankiller quotes a Mohawk proverb: "It is hard to see the future with tears in your eyes".
As the old Chinese proverb has it, even a journey of 1,000 miles begins with a single step.
