"proverbs" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to a saying or phrase that conveys a widely accepted truth. An example sentence might be: "The proverbs 'a stitch in time saves nine' and 'an apple a day keeps the doctor away' are both well-known sayings."
Of course it isn't; it's a coalition, stupid!" Sometimes the saws and proverbs crashed into each other: "If we Tories navel-gaze and only pander to our comfort zone, we will never get elected".
The brave proverbs with which we were brought up – the truth will out, cheats never prosper, virtue will triumph – turn out to be unfounded.
The book was rich with the proverbs and parables Mr Achebe, too, remembered, all rendered in stately English.
Birahima's last battle Of dreams and nightmares Wartime rations Reprints Related items West Africa's wars: A region in flamesJul 3rd 2003 New novels from France: The young and the restlessNov 23rd 2000Birahima tells his story in a unique mixture of erudite French, Malinke slang and local proverbs (with definitions for all of them in parentheses).
"And her ways are ways of gentleness and all her paths are peace" is a quote from a passage in the Book of Proverbs, in which Wisdom is personified as a female divine figure.
Shabaab's militiamen, who are now obstructing aid in Somalia's latest famine, kick the corpse of an Ethiopian soldier in a repetition of the "self-dishonouring dance around a dead Marine" that shocked the world in 1993.There are traces here of the dreams and proverbs that enrich Mr Farah's fiction ("the shoes of a dead man are more useful than he is").
He loves wisecracks and proverbs, and is even more sceptical about the notions of management gurus than John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, two journalists on The Economist, were in "The Witch Doctors" (1996 .Yet in "The Synergy Myth" he succeeds in mounting a coherent, lucid defence of conglomerates.
His interests were painting, history and poetry: his writing was peppered with fond references to old Chinese proverbs and stories.
WALK into many a Spanish bar and you will find this admonition among the proverbs inscribed on the wall: La mujer en casa, con la pata quebrada ("Keep the woman at home, with a broken leg").
Mr Cruz does not go to many cocktail parties, he confided, before turning to the TV cameras to read bedtime Biblical proverbs to his young daughters watching back home, followed by "Green Eggs and Ham" by Dr Seuss.Meet Ted Cruz, bomb-throwing reactionarySome call Mr Cruz a bomb-throwing radical.
The acquaintance was surprised to learn that other cultures have similar proverbs.
