proverbs

Wisdom for the practice of life has among all nations taken a figurative shape, passing from myth or fable into the contracted sayings we term proverbs and arriving in the Greek schools of philosophy at ethical systems.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

You encourage me very much and the lips of the rightous feed many {in proverbs} which is a description of your writings.

Family Traditions 2006

Whose charms were told in proverbs, those beauties à-la-mode?

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Bedawee tents; one to whom the East is as a second mother, and in whose faith the Koran is necessary to really put the finishing touch to a true gentleman, sends us the following eccentric proverbs from the Arabic.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

No modern proverbs, if we expressed ourselves in proverbs now, would speak with such sweeping, unbroken contumely of the women of to-day as did those unerring exhibitors of popular feeling in former times.

Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution 1898

Wherefore they that speak in proverbs -- Here is given an extract from an Amorite song exultingly anticipating an extension of their conquests to Arnon.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

I spoken unto you in proverbs, in such a way as you have thought not so plain and intelligible as you could have wished, but the time cometh when I shall show you plainly, as plainly as you can desire, of the

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Considering their dulness, and unaptness to receive what he said to them, he might be said to speak in proverbs; what he said to them was as a book sealed,

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Of this he had hitherto spoken to them in proverbs, which are wise and instructive sayings, but figurative, and resting in generals.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

They copied out these proverbs from the records of

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721