How To Use Proverbs In A Sentence
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams.
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Riddles and proverbs can influence each other and sometimes a piece of advice in proverb form can be turned into a riddle, or vice versa.
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Riddles, proverbs, and sayings that describe proper behavior for both young and old Kenyans are still common.
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They still exchange mnemonic sayings, adages and proverbs.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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Yet proverbs were objects of curiosity, collected on an encyclopedic scale by Italian virtuosi as well as other European scholars throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Although it is variously described as a devouring beast that is never satisfied (see Proverbs 27:20) and a gloomy abode (see Job 10:21), it was not a place of punishment, but rather the destiny of all human souls.
Mysteries & Intrigues of the Bible
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‘Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty’ (Proverbs 23: 20-21 KJV)
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Quoting Proverbs, the priest said virtue would elevate a nation to a higher plane, while vice would degrade it.
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One of the hallmarks of apraxia is the relative preservation of automatic or over learned speech sequences such as greetings, leave-takings and proverbs.
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Streetwise Upper-Intermediate explores metaphors and proverbs; rhythm and stress; and the language of persuasion as used in advertising.
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Many Chinese proverbs cannot be properly rendered into English.
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In the mid-1500s, English writer John Heywood penned the phrase "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?" in his book of proverbs entitled, A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue.
Sam Dudley: Melo Is Full of...
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As someone who has traveled widely and who has come to love African proverbs, I urge you to read this one many times to see whether you get the big picture: This world is susu.
Oprah 'doing the happy dance' over Obama win
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Adinkra symbols usually represent popular proverbs, adages or traditional concepts in Ghanaian culture.
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As war novels go, it's a departure from the norm, leavening the gruesome depictions of combat with jokes, proverbs and stories from the lives the soldiers left behind.
The King's Rifle: Summary and book reviews of The King's Rifle by Biyi Bandele.
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Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages.
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Many proverbs use alliteration: "Many a mickle (little) makes a muckle (lot)," rhyme: "Man proposes, God disposes," parallelism: "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," ellipsis: "First come, first served," etc.
The Nature Of Proverbs
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He learnt over 10,000 proverbs by memorising them as his father, S. Parasuraman, read out from various Tamil books.
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Mention of this substance is made in (Proverbs 25: 20) -- "and as vinegar upon nitre" -- and in (Jeremiah 2: 26) The article denoted is not that which we now understand by the term nitre i.e. nitrate of Potassa -- "saltpetre" -- but the nitrum of the Latins and the natron or native carbonate of soda of modern chemistry.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
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The section on markers discusses rhyme and alliteration, oppositions, word repetition, paradox, metaphor, pithiness and aspects of the syntax of proverbs.
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Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.
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As the Zambian Bemba proverbs says, 'Imitiikulaimpanga.'
Shayne Moore: The Trees That Grow Become the Forest
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Some of the stories suitably blend the wisdom of the proverbs and the story line.
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And hence this friendship gave occasion to many sarcastical remarks among the domestics, most of which were either proverbs before, or at least are become so now; and, indeed, the wit of them all may be comprised in that short Latin proverb, “Noscitur a socio”; which, I think, is thus expressed in English,
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
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There are frescoed walls and ceilings, weighty beams inscribed with German proverbs, and a preponderance of carved and knotted pine.
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Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.
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Nor is Dodds above making pop-culture quips: “But it always comes out like a Gilbert-without-/Sullivan song” or refiguring common proverbs: “But the moorhen is two birds killed/with one act of kindness.”
Chris Hutchinson on Jeramy Dodds
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The sayings are in the form of proverbs, parables, aphorisms, and exhortations.
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Other subjects are diverse: the slave trade to Tsarist Russia, Fon proverbs, and the heritage of the slave trade in the literature of areas that received large slave populations.
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The Philosopher's Room is a heady mix of high art and popular culture, decorated with samplers embroidered with witty, mock-homespun proverbs.
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[95] [Old copy, _knew_.] [96] [See Hazlitt's "Proverbs," 1869, p. 478.] [97] [Mr Collier printed _not_.] [98] [Mr Collier printed _only man alive_.] [99] [This and the next line of the dialogue are given in the old copy to Hermione.] [100] [By.] [101] [Old copy, pit_.] [102] _With a wanion_ seems to have been equivalent to "with a witness," or sometimes to "with a curse," but the origin of it is uncertain.
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6
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Tibetans liberally sprinkle proverbs into daily conversations as a substitute for slang phrases.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
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One who "committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding," Proverbs tells us, and "he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul" 6:32.
Michael Gilmour: Anne Bronte's Religious Imagination
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Many Chinese proverbs cannot be properly rendered into English.
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Beware of proverbs: they are a snare and a delusion.
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The price of a virtuous woman, says Proverbs, is more than that of rubies.
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There is a reason that God's word says "Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands" (Proverbs 14: 1)
The Better Part
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The habits of the coney (hyrax N.S.) are very accurately. portrayed in the Psalms and in Proverbs.
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Some of these examples are maxims, precepts, quips, proverbs and epigrams.
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For centuries past, preachers had used exempla - fables, proverbs, anecdotes - to make the principles that infused their sermons both easier understood and more attractive to their parishioners.
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His conversation was larded with Russian proverbs.
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Proverbs 23: 27-28: For a prostitute is a deep pit and a wayward wife is a narrow well.
Leave it to Just to stir the pot, but: « Dating Jesus
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The Bible says in Proverbs 14: 34: ‘Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people.’
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Norwegians tend to integrate sayings and proverbs into daily conversations.
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In my opinion, Jewish women are the authority on this body image stuff -- Jews invented the word zaftig and live lives peppered with proverbs like "Worries go down better with soup" and the ever-uplifting, "Eat and drink for tomorrow you may die.
Leslie Goldman: Oy, You Should Eat!
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In both the biblical book of Proverbs and the apocryphal book of Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom is personified and is said to participate in God's creative activity.
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The subject areas in which he was most interested were fishing, folk medicine, proverbs and sayings.
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The Ewe divide proverbs into two groups of metaphorical use according to social status and age of their performers.
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The value of the proverb in arresting readers' attention has been fully realised by newspaper editors; widespread and common proverbs are frequently used, particularly for headlines.
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the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs
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The Bible, in keeping with other ancient Near Eastern cultures, includes a book of proverbs, and in the Book of Kings we read of the parable of the trees who gathered to elect a king - a natural rather than an animal fable.
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Midrash Mishle, on Proverbs; (11) Yalqut Shimeoni, a kind of catena extending over all the Hebrew Scriptures.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.
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The shrewdness and sharpness of his proverbs and his forceful epigrams serve, in an exceptional degree, to make ethical ideas a popular possession.
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Maxims, proverbs, and other forms of folk wisdom give a person reasons for obeying rules.
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Storytelling, like that found in Proverbs 1-9, uses exempla - both negative and positive - to reinforce the desired behaviour.
Michael Gilmour: Anne Bronte's Religious Imagination
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Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought.
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It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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All the ethnic groups of Uganda have a rich oral tradition of tales, legends, stories, proverbs, and riddles.
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Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
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An interesting article, "Proverbs and prejudice: El Indio in Hispanic proverbial speech" by Shirley L. Arora De Proverbio, Vol. 1, no.
Languagehat.com: EL INDIO.
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If you have an online Bible source, such as E-Sword, you can do a convenient search of the word "blessed" in Psalms, Proverbs, and Matthew, which will reveal that the person who is to be happy, is the person who will do what is right, no matter what the risk.
Pursuit of Happiness
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Proverbs exhibit most of the stylistic devices of poetry.
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I hate wise proverbs, as a rule, but the one about ‘all work and no play’ certainly springs to mind.
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As the book of Proverbs says "A wise man ignores an insult: it is to his glory to overlook an offense.
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As he ponders the next option in his club career, it is just possible that a few proverbs from his native land are springing to mind once again.
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And observing that it was generally read, scarce any neighborhood in the province being without it, I considered it as a proper vehicle for conveying instruction among the common people, who bought scarcely any other books; I therefore filled all the little spaces that occurred between the remarkable days in the calendar with proverbial sentences, chiefly such as inculcated industry and frugality as a means of procuring wealth, and thereby securing virtue; it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly as, to use here one of the proverbs, it is hard for an empty sack to stand upright.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
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Commonplace books could be repositories for meticulously copied out poems, proverbs, and moral exempla; they could also permit a large degree of freedom in both the choice of material transcribed and in the way in which it was recorded.
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The epic by Waris is interspersed with proverbs, sayings, folktales, history and poetry par excellence.
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His sayings and proverbs, which embodied his philosophy of life, were handed down from generation to generation.
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Streetwise Upper-Intermediate explores metaphors and proverbs; rhythm and stress; and the language of persuasion as used in advertising.
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Consequently, the exempla in this section illustrate the kind of balanced prudence encouraged by Raison and Christine: the definitive ideal is the prudent woman depicted in Proverbs 31.
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He is well known for weaving proverbs and traditional storytelling into the western form of the novel.
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They still exchange mnemonic sayings, adages and proverbs.
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Many proverbs use alliteration: "Many a mickle (little) makes a muckle (lot)," rhyme: "Man proposes, God disposes," parallelism: "Nothing ventured, nothing gained," ellipsis: "First come, first served," etc.
The Nature Of Proverbs
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It lacks narrative forms, is not reducible to conventional proverbs, and is driven by grievance against God and the world.
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Mention of this substance is made in (Proverbs 25: 20) -- "and as vinegar upon nitre" -- and in (Jeremiah 2: 26) The article denoted is not that which we now understand by the term nitre i.e. nitrate of Potassa -- "saltpetre" -- but the nitrum of the Latins and the natron or native carbonate of soda of modern chemistry.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
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The shrewdness and sharpness of his proverbs and his forceful epigrams serve, in an exceptional degree, to make ethical ideas a popular possession.
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His conversation was larded with Russian proverbs.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
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All the ethnic groups of Uganda have a rich oral tradition of tales, legends, stories, proverbs, and riddles.
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Apart from a brief foray into Proverbs, every single one of the passages was from the Psalms.
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How, searching for help in his hour of need, he turned to the Bible and discovered Proverbs 22: 7: “The rich rule over the poor, and the borrower is slave of the lender.”
Lead Us Not Into Debt
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He gives his advice with old Iraqi proverbs and quotes from the Koran.
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Proverbs itself uses exempla, as in 6:6-11, which opens with the phrase, "Go to the ant, thou sluggard consider her ways, and be wise.
Michael Gilmour: Anne Bronte's Religious Imagination
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Your Book of Proverbs, in the Old Testament, as you call it.
FLASH POINT
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
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Now whatever the intrinsic value of these proverbs, there's no taking away from the harm they cause.
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It's tough to choose a single epitaph for a man who invoked so many epigrams and proverbs.
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One who "committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding," Proverbs tells us, and "he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul" 6:32.
Michael Gilmour: Anne Bronte's Religious Imagination
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Sheikh Mo, who fancies himself a prophet of modernisation, likes to impress visitors with clever proverbs and heavy aphorisms.
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Romani uses many idiomatic expressions, proverbs, and sayings, often with metaphorical qualities.
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Songs, stories, proverbs, and sayings have been passed down over thousands of years.
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And not only does the book of Proverbs have this potential, but almost all the books of the Bible.
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A brief fly-past, citizens, to bring you the news that David Cameron is sorry that his party has been totally unable to detect the oncoming debt crisis and resulting recession over the last decade despite the frequent Proverbs of St Vince in and out of the House.
Saying sorry - the new PR arms race
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The book of Psalms, for example, is the "hymnbook" of the Bible, while Proverbs gives us practical lessons for daily living.
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette stories
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DOLLAR: But the word of god says, and he makes it very clear in proverbs, the blessings of the lord maketh rich and addeth no sorrow.
CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2008
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Proverbs are the wisdom of the ages.
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The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
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In 1500 he published a little book, Adagiorum collectanea, an anthology of proverbs and sayings derived from classical sources, a slim little volume with only 818 items, all taken from Latin sources.
Desiderius Erasmus
