Sentence examples for proverb bad from inspiring English sources

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-AFRICAN PROVERB Bad herdsmen ruin their flocks.

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Be Positive - an old Arabic proverb "write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen you on a piece of marble".

But the proverb hasn't stopped his bad dreams or cured his fear of a knock on the door.

How proverbs evolve, specifically, variations on bad apples.

Rohmer's later use of the word "proverbs", too, might carry a bad odour, suggesting words of wisdom that merely settle everything.

But as a Spanish proverb has it, there's no bad but brings some good.

According to i reader Maria Gammidge, there is an Italian proverb which says: "Good things cost less than bad ones".

"The lotus flower blooms most beautifully from the deepest and thickest mud," says a Buddhist proverb, just in case you thought all crap was bad.

Every pot, as the proverb has it, finds its cover.But it is not all bad news for the hyper-masculine.

"The Russians have a proverb," Elihu tells another agent, in the wake of a deal gone bad with the Palestinian security forces.

One of the Rodong Sinmun articles points to Park's father, the late dictator Park Chung-hee, warning: "Like father like daughter, this proverb just suits the case of the notorious Parks in a very bad sense".

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