proverb

Isaiah Berlin, drawing on an ancient Greek proverb, famously observed that Leo Tolstoy was a foxlike writer who knew many things but longed to be someone who, like the hedgehog, knew one big thing.

If this is the bane of the sea—the first one in the proverb— I don’t think I’m going to make it to the other ones.

As the proverb tells us, “Speech is silver, silence is golden.”

"There's an African proverb that says: 'When the elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers,'" the employee said.

The website led with what it called a proverb: “If you call one wolf, you invite the pack.”