Sentence examples for proverb in from inspiring English sources

"There is a proverb in Afghanistan," he said.

(A favorite proverb: "In a garden the flowers are diverse, but the water is one").

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

Guatemalans often cite the proverb "In a country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king".

" 'When there's a threat, find God,' goes the proverb in Poland," said Rafal Antczak, an economist at Warsaw University.

"There is a proverb in Chinese that a distant relative may not be as useful as a near neighbor," Mr. Li said.

Let me quote another Chinese proverb -- we have too many proverbs in China.

Numerous lines from his poetry and the The Rose Garden have become proverbs in Persian.

In Europe this may result from the international currency of Latin proverbs in the Middle Ages.

His first collection of poems, Vignettes in Rhyme (1873), was followed by Proverbs in Porcelain (1877).

A collection of proverbs in Sumerian the world's first written language suggests that they have.