Sentence examples for proverb about from inspiring English sources

What's that proverb about crying more than the bereaved?

Rarely has the proverb about repeating history been more vividly signaled.

Specifically, it makes her think of a proverb about a beach covered in starfish.

(He once mangled the proverb about revenge being a dish best served cold, saying, "Revenge is like serving cold cuts").

Chinese bloggers reasoned that the concept came from a proverb about black and white representing good and evil in society.

A light rain splattered the windshield, and he recited a Chinese proverb about the preciousness of spring showers for farmers.

The top performer here, and one of few works to attract multiple bidders, was Pieter Brueghel the Younger's figure-packed canvas, "The Netherlandish Proverbs," from about 1600, which sold to one of four telephone bidders for £6.3 million.

We have long known it under other maxims — "to govern is to choose" — or even under folkloric proverbs about having cakes and consuming them.

Manuals and proverbs about proper behavior proliferated, and townsfolk and merchants did their best to imitate the courtesy of court life.

If Franklin hadn't been so worried about taxes, he might instead have pulled together some of Poor Richard's many proverbs about equality: The greatest monarch on the proudest throne, is oblig'd to sit upon his own arse.

He tried Friday to signal a common heritage of faith with Christian conservatives, quoting the author C. S. Lewis and citing a verse from Proverbs about the blessing of children.