proverb

Example Sentences

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From Literature

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

From Literature

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

From Barron's

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

From Los Angeles Times