There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips. From LearnThat.org. [Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)]
The proverb translates as advice to carry out a task in secret. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
If the proverb is accurate, we should get a list of 40 days. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfram Blog : Mathematica Tests the St. Swithun’s Day Proverb] Reference
The proverb is "Keep the Army busy and keep the Army away.". From Wordnik.com. [Indo-China and the Japanese] Reference
The new version of Solomon's proverb is said to run thus. From Wordnik.com. [A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding] Reference
The Hollywood proverb is if you dont know who lunch is, you probably are. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
The proverb is a "concentrated parable, and the parable an extension of the proverb by a full illustration.". From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Let us take the word proverb in its widest sense, including popular sayings which have not really the stamp of the proverb. From Wordnik.com. [Psychology and Social Sanity] Reference
Her people loved their native city so dearly, that they coined the proverb "All the world is a ring, and Antwerp is the pearl set in it.". From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks] Reference
A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations and applications. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The proverb is a false one -- as many proverbs are. From Wordnik.com. [The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole] Reference
It might be so, if I could digest a certain Spanish proverb. From Wordnik.com. [Religion] Reference
No doubt you recall your proverb about dead men telling tales. From Wordnik.com. [Steve Yeager] Reference
The proverb was the most ancient way of teaching among the Greeks. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman's Bible] Reference
This recalls the proverb, "On devient cuisinier, mais on nait rotisseur!". From Wordnik.com. [Letters]
That said, I also recall the proverb that the Lord loves a cheerful giver. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
'The proverb is a very true one, but, like other proverbs, it applies to the multitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Odd Women] Reference
Can you think of other situationspersonal or societalfor which this proverb might be apt?. From Wordnik.com. [Mountains Beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder: Questions] Reference
Often recall the proverb: "The eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing.". From Wordnik.com. [The Imitation of Christ] Reference
The old proverb is “whenever someone says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money”. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » A Devastating Tag Team] Reference
159 The Persian proverb is “Marg-i-amboh jashni dáred” — death in a crowd is as good as a feast. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The performance of the maddening feat indicated in the proverb has been the principal business of my life. From Wordnik.com. [The Blunders of a Bashful Man] Reference
And the proverb is a true one, "You must eat many a peck of salt with a man to be thorough friends with him.". From Wordnik.com. [Treatises on Friendship and Old Age] Reference
The title comes from a Haitian proverb, which is usually translated as: "Beyond the mountains, more mountains.". From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with Tracy Kidder, author of Mountain Beyond Mountains] Reference
The proverb was the most characteristic literary form in which the sages treasured and imparted their teachings. From Wordnik.com. [The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament] Reference
French in a slyly witty proverb, which is a circumlocutory way of saying that a man won't set the Thames on fire. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
A proverb is a short, sententious saying, in the nature of a maxim, connoting a definite truth or suggestion by comparison. From Wordnik.com. [Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern] Reference
To be "weel faur'd" is to be good-looking; and the proverb is a jocular allusion to the fact that the person addressed is not an. From Wordnik.com. [The Proverbs of Scotland] Reference
The slowness of the tortoise has passed into a proverb, which is not to be wondered at; for they cannot inhale the air, because their ribs. From Wordnik.com. [The History of a Mouthful of Bread And its effect on the organization of men and animals] Reference
Prescotts command has become a proverb, meaning Dont act before you have some chance of success. From Wordnik.com. [Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes] Reference
Hence the proverb which is obsolete in conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
That is a true proverb which is wont to be commonly quoted, that. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature] Reference
We are led to the same inference from the term Maschal, a "proverb" or. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
Indeed, it passed into a kind of proverb at St. St.phen's that there were three parties in the. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)] Reference
When you begin each level, a "proverb" appears at the top of the screen giving you a clue on how to complete the level. From Wordnik.com. [Jay is Games] Reference
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