Soichiro Honda

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

Japanese Businessman

Nicholson Baker

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.

American Novelist

William Feather

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

American Author

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.

Canadian Educator

J. Paul Getty

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

American Businessman

William Temple

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.

English

George Gissing

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

British Novelist

Ravyn Lenae

My first tattoo is a French proverb, and it says, 'Dream your life, live your dreams.

American Musician

Lord John Russell

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

British Politician

Isaac D'Israeli

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

British Writer

Proverbs often reflect cultural values or wisdom, giving insight into the beliefs of a community.

Cultural Insights

Proverbs can be quoted to give advice or make a point more convincing in both writing and speech.

Use in Context

Some proverbs may have meanings that are not immediately obvious and require some explanation.

Understanding Nuance

 Now, the essence of this proverb even though a woman gives physical birth to each particular child, the whole community plays an important role in looking after all children. Growing up, it was not uncommon for me to come home and see my mom preparing a meal for what felt like the entire neighborhood.

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 Unlike many proverbs, the one about elephant memory is scientifically accurate. Elephants know every member in their herd, able to recognize as many as 30 companions by sight or smell. This is a great help when migrating or encountering other potentially hostile elephants.

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 and what are calming them down? That's a very dark proverb. You're saying that that's actually baked into most people's mental wiring at some level? Oh, absolutely. This is just a basic aspect of human social cognition. But we can also live together really peacefully,

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 And there are a million reasons to fall in love with this its depth of poetics, its double entendres, its wax and gold, its humor, its proverbs that illuminate the wisdom and follies of life. But there's also this melodicism, a musicality built right in.

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 And again, it broke me down, man. I became unmotivated, I started overindulging in things that I'm not proud of. I was almost thinking about canceling my upcoming tour. I was in a very dark place. But then I heard this Yiddish proverb

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 all the cultural knowledge and land and language with them as the popular proverb goes when an old person dies a whole library burns down even as I speak our elders are dying and we're losing the treasure trove of important

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 once felled quart woodland is very difficult to restore a complex ecosystem such as the Mont odda takes time knowledge and patience to recreate that Francisco knows well there's a Portuguese proverb that says vinius -

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 things one is the secret to peace is the third side the third side is us each of us with a single step can take the world can bring the world a step closer to peace there's an old African proverb

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 really i just said i spotted cats not exactly like what tristan has but i am going to investigate whether what my friend told me is true in the village i come from we have always had a proverb

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 The third side is us. Each of us, with a single step, can take the world, can bring the world a step closer to peace. There's an old African proverb that

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