Sentence examples for proverb to from inspiring English sources

In North Korea there is a proverb: "To see is to believe".

He has a new Chinese proverb to hand with which to clarify his actions.

There was none of that sense of the French proverb, "To leave is to die a little".

Here's a lesser-known proverb to remember if you happen to find yourself in Katmandu: Always look a gift Buddha in the ear.

By Russell Maloney The New Yorker, April 12 , 1941P. 25 A companion proverb to "Love 'em and leave 'em", is "Eat 'em and forget 'em".

Then he paraphrased a Persian proverb to describe the Khatami camp's operative strategy: "The one who moves forward is not the one who moves fast".

Part of a sub-genre of tech-culture proverbs to be filed under "humans are idiots".

He liked to recite Latin proverbs to urge officials to inform members of Congress promptly and fully.

Paco never worked for me; as he put it, using one of his wise native proverbs, "To know the guest room of such a portly retired pharmacist is a pleasure of the gods"..

All of which suggests that it's possible, despite the apparent "timelessness" of many of the best known examples, for new proverbs to spring up, or be deliberately invented.

"You see African culture is idiomatic; it uses symbols and proverbs to express the truth.