And I quoted a ribald Glasgow proverb.

"Of course, there's some risk; but you know the old proverb, 'Nothing venture, nothing have.'

You remember the old proverb: "Man proposes, but his mother-in-law finally disposes."

1-4. "The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge?

But I dare say you have heard the old proverb, "One swallow does not make a summer;"

No man verifies the proverb more, that it is an alms-deed to punish him; for his penalty is a dole, and does the beggars as much good as their dinner.

Further I can vouch, that she neither hemmed, nor made eyes, nor yet repeated the well-worn proverb, "Two's company, but three's none."

In Burton's Wit and Wisdom from West Africa we find a few proverbs about women that are current in the same region.

While Truman sought to copy these attitudes, to place the feet aright for Earnest Appeal or Bold Assertion, or to clasp the hands as directed for Supplication and Earnest Entreaty, the ladies of the Literary and Home Study Club conned the chapter on American literature, "containing choice proverbs and literary selections and quotations from the poets of the old and new worlds."

They have all evidently forgotten the German proverb: Kehr vor deiner eignen Tür!

Diligence justly claims the next Place to Thrift: I find both these excellently well recommended to common use in the three following Italian Proverbs, Never do that by Proxy which you can do yourself.

That he may understand a proverb and parable, The words of the wise and their riddles.

She was sure that Henrich knew best; and she silently watched him leave the garden, and enter the shade of the thick forest, accompanied by her joyous little brother. Were her fears, indeed, the mere creation of her own young fancy I or were they occasioned by one of those strange and unaccountable presentiments which have been felt so frequently as to justify the old proverb, 'Coming events cast their shadow, before them.’

It might be so, if I could digest a certain Spanish proverb.

All the old stories of the lost valley and the Country of the Blind had come back to his mind, and through his thoughts ran this old proverb, as if it were a refrain "In the Country of the Blind the One-eyed Man is King.

Wilson recommended the Proverbs of Heywood as furnishing "allegories" useful in the amplification of a point in a speech.

Nor did their alms extend to those alone, Whom common faith more strictly made their own; A sort of Doves were housed too near their hall, Who cross the proverb, and abound with gall.

Does the reign of Napoleon III. serve only to illustrate the proverb, that among the blind the one-eyed man is a king?

He, also, who first spoke the ancient proverb, Let sleeping dogs lie, did no more than voice the caution of the street.

These insertions include (1) proverbs commending wisdom and praising the current wisdom teachings, and (2) the work of a pious scribe, a forerunner of the later Pharisees, who sought to correct the utterances of the original writer (who is commonly designated as Koheleth) and to bring them into accord with current orthodoxy.

To apply your proverbs to yourself would be to realise this proverb of ours.

When I repine in Ben's hearing, he sighs deeply, and advises me "to heed the auld-warld proverb, and 'tak' things by their smooth handle, sin' there's nae use in grippin' at thorns."

Leclair muttered, in Arabichis words audible only to himselfan ancient Islamic proverb: "Allah knows best, and time will show!"

Thus, I assembled the proverbs containing the wisdom of many ages and nations into a discourse prefixed to the Almanack of 1757, as the harangue of a wise old man to the people attending an auction.

well Who knoweth all the proverbs!