Sentence examples for the proverb of from inspiring English sources

It's the proverb of a whaler: go big or go home.

It's also the proverb of the successful game developer working in 2012, who understands that, in time, familiarity usually breeds contempt in the modern audience.

He told the proverb of the house rat who went swimming with his friend the lizard and died from cold, for while the lizard's scales kept him dry the rat's hairy body remained wet.

Another explanation of the term comes from the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898), which cited the proverb of "selling the skin before you have caught the bear," and referred to those who entered into contracts in the notorious South Sea bubble in the early 18th century, to transfer stock at a stated price.

At first this survey might remind one the proverb of the blind men and the elephant.

It is the reverse of the proverb 'Out of sight is out of mind'.

The "proverbs of Solomon" (10 1 22 16) consist entirely of parallelistic couplets the mashal in its primitive form.

It consists of two principal collections of early origin called "the proverbs of Solomon" and "proverbs of Solomon which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied".

There are hints here of an irreverence bordering on blasphemy -- confirming Jeffers's kinship with the Blake who wrote the proverbs of hell, or the Ambrose Bierce of "The Devil's Dictionary".

The book's superscription, "The proverbs of Solomon...," is not to say that it as a whole or even individual proverbs should be credited to King Solomon, for scholarly examination discloses that it contains seven collections of wisdom materials (mostly short sayings) from a wide variety of periods, all after Solomon's time.

For example, in his analysis of the Book of Proverbs he argues that its sayings are "inferior in keenness to the proverbs of the Spaniards, and not more wise and economical than those of the American Franklin".