Proverbs are popularly defined as “short expressions of popular wisdom”. Efforts to improve on the popular definition have not led to a more precise definition. The wisdom is in the form of a general observation about the world or a bit of advice, sometimes more nearly an attitude toward a situation.
American Proverbs. Success has many mans, but failure is an orphan. After all is said and done, more is said than done. The opportunity of a lifetime is seldom so labeled.
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Whoever spares the rod hates their ren, but the one who loves their ren is careful to discipline them.
Alphabetical list of Russian proverbs and sayings with English equivalents and literal translation. Russian proverbs, sayings, idioms and quotes will help you to better understand Russian culture, people and history.
famous proverbs and adages A HUGE collection of proverbs, proverbial sayings, clichés, maxims, adages, aphorisms, platitudes, mottos, old saws, inanities, common sayings, or whatever you want to call them.
Karl Ernst von Baer, polymath naturalist, formulated the geological Baer’s law on river erosion and embryological Baer’s laws, founder of the Russian Entomological Society, co-founder of the Russian Geographical Society
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Proverbs are often and easily translated and transferred from one language into another. “There is nothing so uncertain as the derivation of proverbs, the same proverb being often found in all nations, and it is impossible to assign its paternity.”
Complete list of proverbs and sayings, metaphors and quotes, similes and one-liners, all about insects and spiders.
