This proverb was used to denote the pride that the members of the Abravanel clan used to take in their aristocratic origin.

As the proverb goes, eating is the most important thing in daily lives.

According to David Toop, " the word break or breaking is a music and dance term, as well as a proverb, that goes back a long way.

As a testament to the complementary nature of these two styles, there is a proverb that goes: " When pigua is added to baji, gods and demons will all be terrified.

Because proverbs are so much a part of the language and culture, authors have sometimes used proverbs in historical fiction effectively, but anachronistically, before the proverb was actually known.

One hypothetical etymology points to London bearskin " jobbers " ( market makers ), who would sell bearskins before the bears had actually been caught in contradiction of the proverb ne vendez pas la peau de l ' ours avant de l ’ avoir tué (" don't sell the bearskin before you've killed the bear ")— an admonition against over-optimism.

The proverb was apparently based on an anecdote about Ibycus stupidly or nobly turning down an opportunity to become tyrant of Rhegium in order to pursue a poetic career instead ( one modern scholar however infers from his poetry that Ibycus was in fact wise enough to avoid the lure of supreme power, citing as an example Plato's quotation from one of his lyrics: " I am afraid it may be in exchange for some sin before the gods that I get honour from men ") There is no other information about Ibycus ' activities in the West, apart from an account by Himerius, that he fell from his chariot while travelling between Catana and Himera and injured his hand badly enough to give up playing the lyre " for some considerable time.

Her mother said that " There is an old proverb in my country which means ' one should not make oneself or one's family naked before the world '...

" The saying and its attribution as an " African " proverb were in circulation before it was adopted by Clinton as the source for the title of her book.

" There is a proverb ," he wrote, " which says, ' Before you go to war, say a prayer ; before going to sea say two prayers ; before marrying say three prayers.

May I say that you have just demonstrated the truth of an old proverb -- the younger Pliny's, if memory serves me -- which, translated freely from the archaic Latin, says, ' The more haste, the less peed ' ''.

A proverb ( from ) is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and repeated, which expresses a truth, based on common sense or the practical experience of humanity.

The study of proverbs is called: paremiology ( from Greek παροιμία-paroimía, " proverb ") and can be dated back as far as Aristotle.

Created proverb from J. R. R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings on a bumper sticker.

Other times, a proverb appears at the end of a story, summing up a moral to the story, frequently found in Aesop's Fables, such as " Heaven helps those who help themselves " from Hercules and the Wagoner.

However, the proverb about changing horses in midstream is reliably dated to 1864, so the proverb could not have been known or used by a character from that period.

For example, proverbs have been used for teaching foreign languages at various levels., In addition, proverbs have been used for public health promotion, such as promoting breast feeding with a shawl bearing a Swahili proverb “ Mother ’ s milk is sweet ”, also for helping people manage diabetes, for to combat prostitution, and for community development The most active field deliberately using proverbs is Christian ministry, where Joseph G. Healey and others have deliberately worked to catalyze the collection of proverbs from smaller languages and the application of them in a wide variety of church-related ministries, resulting in publications of collections and applications ,.

Although the breed did not apparently experience any significant change in the 18th and 19th centuries, and was kept in its vocation as a swift hunting dog, maybe the most telling proverb which mentions the Galgo, is the one dating from the first years of the nineteenth Century:

" These words, which come from the proverb " A chain is only as strong as its weakest link " ensure resilience to accidental activation through damage.

In 1935 it was suggested that the title derived from a line in John Florio's His firste Fruites ( 1578 ), " We neede not speak so much of loue, al books are ful of lou, with so many authours, that it were labour lost to speake of Loue ", a source from which Shakespeare also took the untranslated Venetian proverb Venetia, Venetia / Chi non ti vede non ti pretia

And the causes of these varied fortunes, according to all probability, are to be found in the reasons of providence, though it is not easy for men to ascertain these ; but I have said what I have done by way of digression from the main body of my subject, on account of the proverb, that ' such is the power of faith, because it seizes that which first presents itself.

The programme's original working title had been Winter with Flowers ( from the German proverb " An old man loved is winter with flowers.

The title is based on a popular proverb from the book " Spiegel van den Ouden ende Nieuwen Tijdt ", an Emblem book by Jacob Cats published in 1632.

Derived from this, the Chinese proverb " The Eight Immortals cross the sea, each reveals its divine power " ( 八仙過海 ， 各顯神通 ~, gè xiǎn shén tōng ) indicates the situation that everybody shows off their skills and expertise to achieve a common goal.

Some say that the original proverb should actually be " 狗咬呂洞賓 ， 不識好人心 ," stemming from a story about the friendship between Gou Miao ( 狗咬 ) and Lü Dongbin, who both did for the other great favors, each of which seemed like a disservice initially, signifying the importance of having faith in one's friends.

As the Chinese proverb says " A wise man learns from experience ; a wiser man learns from the experience of others ".

Loosely based on the biblical proverb, " As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he ," the small work eventually became read around the world and brought Allen posthumous fame as one of the pioneering figures of modern inspirational thought.

The Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Familiar Phrases quotes Barnard as saying he called it " a Chinese proverb, so that people would take it seriously.

The band Fleet Foxes used the proverb painting Netherlandish Proverbs for the cover of their eponymous album Fleet Foxes.

Later in 1980 Rohmer embarked on a second series of films: the " Comedies and Proverbs ", where each film was based on a proverb.

`` Look, my friend '', he said, `` in my life I learn, how is it the proverb says, better an ounce of prevention to a pound of cure.

Tommy, of course, had never heard of a kotowaza, or Japanese proverb, which says, `` Tanin yori miuchi '', and is literally translated as `` Relatives are better than strangers ''.

However, many people, notably Jehovah's Witnesses, believe that the wisdom in this proverb symbolizes Jesus Christ because he is later described in a similar way.

The name " Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon " is a literal translation of the Chinese proverb " 卧虎藏龍 " which refers to the mysteries ( or hidden talents, undiscovered talents ) that lie beneath the surface of an otherwise normal-looking individual.

A Scottish Gaelic proverb about the day is:

A prominent proverb scholar in the United States is Wolfgang Mieder.

He has written or edited over 50 books on the subject, edits the journal Proverbium ( journal ), has written innumerable articles on proverbs, and is very widely cited by other proverb scholars.

Yet another category of proverb is the anti-proverb ( Mieder and Litovkina 2002 ), also called Perverb.

Sometimes the result is merely humorous, but the most spectacular examples result in the opposite meaning of the standard proverb.

Another close construction is an allusion to a proverb, such as " The new boss will probably fire some of the old staff, you know what they say about a ' new broom '," alluding to the proverb " The new broom will sweep clean.

Further typical features of the proverb are its shortness ( average: seven words ), and the fact that its author is generally unknown ( otherwise it would be a quotation ).

For example, a proverb of the approximate form “ No flies enter a mouth that is shut ” is currently found in Spain, Ethiopia, and many countries in between.

It is embraced as a true local proverb in many places and should not be excluded in any collection of proverbs because it is shared by the neighbors.

However, people will often quote only a fraction of a proverb to invoke an entire proverb, e. g. " All is fair " instead of " All is fair in love and war ", and " A rolling stone " for " A rolling stone gathers no moss.

Studying actual proverb use in conversation, however, is difficult since the researcher must wait for proverbs to happen.

Captain Ramage reminds his adversary " You are supposed to know that it is dangerous to change horses in midstream " ( p. 259 ), with another allusion to the same proverb three pages later.