Sentence examples for proverb that from inspiring English sources

I found this great proverb that worked".

There is an old Zulu proverb that says: "Plenty sits still, but hunger is a wanderer".

There is an ancient Bosnian proverb that says that 'a tree does not grow from the sky'.

There's a Chinese proverb that doesn't translate very well, but it's basically a spoonful of sugar, a spoonful of tar.

When they declined to make a decision, Khrushchev allegedly said: "There's a Russian proverb that says silence is consent".

Still, he's able to enlist a Welsh proverb that catches the sentiment nicely: John in the morning becomes Jack at night.

"Look after the pennies, and the pounds will look after themselves" is a British proverb that works equally well when you translate it into dollars and cents.

"Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow" is a Swedish proverb that speaks to my growing concern over the microscopic eggs I relinquished 15 years ago.

There is an African proverb that goes something like this: Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.

In the words of an ancient Chinese proverb, that would be akin to confusing the moon with the finger pointing at the moon.

The proportion of each type of proverb that reminded learners of earlier proverbs is displayed in Fig. 1.