A saying that is widely accepted on its own merits.
A widely known, fixed sentence, that expresses a maxim or a wisdom in a short and concise way.
Синонимы
Examples for "saying "
Examples for "saying "
1 Of course Nice regrets saying no to a particular new pharmaceutical product.
2 Mbete was on stage earlier saying we need 'ten to 15 minutes'.
3 I kept saying , 'Yes, sir; sorry, sir,' trying to calm him down.
4 The judge hearing the case can protect consumers' wallets by saying so.
5 Thirty-two years later we are still saying almost ten years, he said.
1 Then the idea of durableness is thus expressed in a Wiltshire proverb : -
2 The 'if' in verse 31 weakens the strong assertion of the proverb .
3 And there is all the lifetime of a proverb in the couplet-
4 The eloquence of the last named was a proverb in his day.
5 The proverb was the most ancient way of teaching among the Greeks.
1 In the twentieth chapter of Proverbs v. 17, we find the maxim :
2 Better late than never may be a maxim suitable to the circumstances.
3 His maxim , however, is one that all ministers for finance live by.
4 But through it all, one maxim remains vital for every decision desk.
5 This maxim was constantly borne in mind by himself and his colleagues.
6 Load your musket with this maxim , and smoke it in your pipe.
7 This is the universal Indian maxim from Nova Zembla to Cape Horn.
8 Explain the psychology of the maxim , we learn to do by doing.
9 This, the maxim illustrated respecting the isle toward which we were sailing.
10 On the notion of an interest is based that of a maxim .
11 Apply this maxim - you may do it a thousand ways, especially in company.
12 No abstract maxim can help solve that problem: it requires living intelligence.
13 Franklin left us a maxim which is much to the point here.
14 It's a maxim worth remembering when setting out in the corporate world.
15 Consequently his readers confess that he has never forgot the Horatian maxim -
16 The old Roman maxim is not applicable to our effeminate, degraded people.
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