Definition of Proverb

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Proverb

An old and common saying; a phrase which is often repeated; especially, a sentence which briefly and forcibly expresses some practical truth, or the result of experience and observation; a maxim; a saw; an adage.

A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable.

A familiar illustration; a subject of contemptuous reference.

A drama exemplifying a proverb.

To name in, or as, a proverb.

To provide with a proverb.

To write or utter proverbs.

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Proverb Quotations

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Calvin Coolidge

Which form of proverb do you prefer Better late than never, or Better never than late?
Lewis Carroll

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
Thomas Szasz

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Miguel de Cervantes

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
Miguel de Cervantes

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.
Soichiro Honda

For a long time, I operated under the Chinese proverb that there are four kinds of leaders: those who you laugh at, those who you hate, those who you love and those who you don't even know that they're leaders.
Bill Bradley

Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
Nicholson Baker

Proverb Translations

proverb in Danish is ordsprog
proverb in Dutch is spreekwoord
proverb in French is proverbe
proverb in German is Sprichwort
proverb in Italian is proverbio
proverb in Spanish is adagio, proverbio

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