Proverb in a sentence as a noun

'Faraway hills look green,' as the proverb goes.

But I wouldn't have learned a cool new latin proverb.

Japanese proverb: "With the fall of one leaf we know that autumn has come to the world.

We have a proverb here in Spain that you can translate as he who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind

The well-worn proverb goes, "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

The old Latin proverb "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

For those that don't recognize the title, "Trust but verify" was popularized by Reagan[1], which in turn was an adaptation of a Russian proverb.

Within the first score or so of entries I came across ""your ***** is wet, my floor is slippery" - persian proverb" and "Donald sterling dissed magic cause he's jealous of his ****.

Don't forget the ancient proverb handed down to us from the original neckbeards:"At some point in their career, every programmer must pass through the fires of timezone ****.

In Urdu we have a proverb it translates to English as - "Treat your teachers beating, as a garland you could receive in the future".I agree corporal punishment is cruelty.

One of the most fundamental reasons for me to move away to the US was this fundamental difference in the psychological makeup, which is expressed in the Russian proverb, "смех без причины признак дурачины": a smile without a reason means the person is without reason.

Proverb definitions

noun

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

See also: adage byword