Sentence examples for upon proverb from inspiring English sources
But there is also a tremendous forward thrust, a piling of assertion upon assertion, of proverb upon proverb, which gives the poem its overall tempo.
But I believe I can improve upon this proverb: for the true fool is the man who grows enough tomatoes to feed himself only to throw them away and buy someone else's tomatoes.
The term epikleros (a feminine adjective acting as noun; from the proverb ὲπί, epí, "on, upon", and the noun κλῆρος, klēros, "lot, estate") was used in ancient Greece to describe the daughter of a man who had died leaving no male heir.
I recalled that Hillary Clinton famously said, "It takes a village to raise a child," based upon an old African proverb.
Asked about their willingness to provide shelter to strangers, residents of Tataouine like to cite an apt local proverb: Travelers cry upon arriving in this desolate place, but leave with tears in their eyes.
There's an ancient Chinese proverb used to heap curses upon an enemy: "It's better to be a dog in a peaceful time than be a man in a chaotic period".
It's a new Russian proverb.
"There's a Rwandan proverb," she says.
Mr. Jamiyev recited a Russian proverb.
