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Meanings of proverb in English

Portuguese
adágio
Catalan
adagi
Spanish
adagio

A condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.

adágio
Russian
народная мудрость
Portuguese
provérbio
Spanish
dicho
Catalan
refranys

Saying that gives advice, usually as a metaphor.

народная мудрость
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Examples for "quote"
Examples for "quote"
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Truthiness: People have certainly talked about that Etch-a-Sketch quote quite a bit.
The Guardian
2
Here's the quote: Analysts need not come solely from the intelligence community.
Wired
3
Labour has sent a fairly anodyne quote about the French nuclear deal.
The Guardian
4
Best quote: I am strongly opposed to all forms of proportional representation.
The Guardian
5
Cameron asks Miliband to ask the question again, including the complete quote.
The Guardian
1
It's one of the best quotes I've heard this year Repeat Yourself.
Wired
2
Others appeared to expect payment for building work, their quotes varying wildly.
The Guardian
3
The last thing I need right now is some cliched religious quotes.
City of lies
4
New Idea quotes Lattanzi as saying that It's hard, we lost someone.
News.com.au
5
Individual share price quotes were not affected, and trading volume was normal.
Reuters
1
All the merit of proverbs consists in the concise and picturesque expression.
A Set of Six
2
Similarly, with trees in general, we find a good number of proverbs.
The Folk-lore of Plants
3
There is a strong feeling in favour of cowardly and prudential proverbs.
The Pocket R.L.S.: Being Favourite Passages from the Works of St...
4
Now it is very probable that some of the proverbs are pre-exilic.
Introduction to the Old Testament
5
The Man Who Talked Backwards reversed even the most common of proverbs.
Stories from the Old Attic

A widely known, fixed sentence, that expresses a maxim or a wisdom in a short and concise way.

Usage of proverb in English
1
Then the idea of durableness is thus expressed in a Wiltshire proverb:-
The Folk-lore of Plants
2
The 'if' in verse 31 weakens the strong assertion of the proverb.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En...
3
And there is all the lifetime of a proverb in the couplet-
The Story of the Hymns and Tunes
4
The eloquence of the last named was a proverb in his day.
Something of Men I Have Known / With Some Papers of a General Na...
5
The proverb was the most ancient way of teaching among the Greeks.
The Woman's Bible
6
For I have never given in to that ancient and much-praised proverb:
Treatises on Friendship and Old Age
7
I do not believe the first part of the proverb, but it.
Study and Stimulants / Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics ...
8
The uncertainty of the law under these systems has become a proverb.
An Essay on the Trial By Jury
9
The proverb is that truth lies at the bottom of a well.
The Heather-Moon
10
Dear friend, as the old proverb has it, deceit lurks in generalities.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Corinthians, Galatians, a...
11
As the proverb well says: Beware the anger of a patient man.
Capitals / A Primer of Information about Capitalization with som...
12
But, as the proverb says, with the disease God sends the remedy.
The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes
13
Isn't there a Central Galaxy proverb about gratitude that I once heard?
Foundation and Empire
14
Again the truth of that humane old proverb came home to me:
The Junior Classics, Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories
15
William chose to accept the phrase as a proverb, not a compliment.
The irish devil
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Man made the town, says the proverb, and God made the country.
Post-Prandial Philosophy
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Proverb across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common