Sentence examples for proverb for from inspiring English sources

Her husband had a proverb for everything.

He said he had turned to an Arabic proverb for solace: "The longer you live, the more you will see".

"These prices are unreasonable, just like a lion opening its bloody mouth," said one recent Internet posting, using a Chinese proverb for voracious greed.

The messages of the governors and the resolutions of the legislatures are a proverb for expressing a sham virtuous indignation, which, in the course of events, is sure to be belied".

Speaking through an interpreter, he offered a somewhat delphic Russian proverb: "For one who has been beaten, we could sell you two of those who haven't been beaten yet".

I can vividly recall leaving those long-ago cabinet meetings and saying to myself as I walked across West Executive Avenue, "Put not your trust in princes". It's a proverb for a good reason — then, now, and always.

Middle Eastern proverbs, for instance, make frequent use of hyperbole and colourful pictorial forms of expression.

Many western proverbs, for example, have their roots in classical literature.

A Yorkshireman born in Doncaster, Lacy furnished Jonson with northern dialect terms and proverbs for such late entertainments as A Tale of a Tub (c1633) and the unfinished The Sad Shepherd (1637).

First, we analyzed how likely P1s and P2s reminded learners of earlier studied proverbs for the reminding group of participants.

Having been reaffirmed and reinforced in myriad ways through family teaching, folktales, and proverbs for centuries, Confucianism has served as the epistemological foundation to bring morality and harmony in Vietnamese society (Kelley, 2006).