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There's an old African proverb that goes: "When spiderwebs unite, they can halt even the lion."
On the surface, they contained a proverb about the Zen Buddhist monastic code - such as living without physical or mental attachments, avoiding binary thinking, and realizing one’s true “Buddha-nature."
There's an old African proverb that some of you know that says, "If you want to go quickly, go alone; if you want to go far, go together."
Perhaps it all boils down to that old proverb: When arguing with a fool, first make sure the other person isn't doing the same thing.
One of the simplest and greatest insights into human social nature is the Bedouin proverb: "Me against my brother; me and my brother against our cousin; me and my brother and cousins against the stranger."
CA: That's a very dark proverb.
There's an African proverb that says, "If the young are not initiated into the village, they will burn it down just to feel its warmth."
Al Gore: There is an old African proverb that says, "If you want to go quickly, go alone.
Truly, love is a many-splendored thing, Dr. Han says; and this movie stands as one of that doctrine's shining proofs, lucent as a pearl, timeless as a Chinese proverb and lovely as polished jade set against a rough background.
The proverb "Never judge a book by it's cover", was coined as a warning to those who fail to look beneath the surface.
This timeless proverb reverberates in this movie and in my heart.
While the title "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" comes from an Irish proverb the film plays out like a Greek tragedy.
The humor implicit in the complete title proverb derives from the Sunday School dictum that one would be better advised to prepare before you're dead for the Devil's scrutiny, i.e. so the Devil doesn't care when you're dead.
We've all heard that phrase before, and if ever that tried and true proverb needs uttering it's when discussing Gareth Rhys Jones' 1999 directorial debut, Bodywork.
Overall, a great movie, with Iosseliani's caustic humor telling us, as the old Latin proverb said, that homo homini lupus, man is a wolf to man.
The Russian proverb “Simplicity is worse than theft” proved oddly prescient.
As a Russian proverb succinctly puts it, “Forget the past and lose an eye; dwell on the past and lose both eyes.”
Even now, the Swahili dialect of Mombasa is called Ki-mvita, and its people coined the proverb "Ndovu wawili wakipigana, ziumiazo na nyasi" [When two elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers].
A Chinese proverb says that all parents want their sons to be dragons and daughters to be phoenixes.
As an old Confucian proverb says, “It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop.”
Both verdicts were doubtless calculated, as a famous Chinese proverb puts it, to “kill some chickens in order to scare the monkeys.”
In fact, the old French proverb, “never two without three,” may seem to indicate that, after those two votes, a Le Pen victory is all but inevitable.
Haste is waste, as the old proverb goes.
As the old African proverb goes, if you educate a girl, you educate an entire nation.
Indeed, a German proverb to the effect that “trust is good, but control is better” has been the basis of eurozone leaders’ policy since the developed world’s debt crisis engulfed the single currency’s system of governance.
Quoting the Chinese proverb, “A starved camel is still bigger than a horse,” he went on to say that Europe’s economies are much stronger than many people believe.
But, in tackling the issue, Chinese officials would do well to heed the proverb: “With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.”
Democratic Russia may one day regret that it did not remember this Leninist proverb.
In the words of the venerable Chinese proverb, they are “feeling for the stones while crossing the river.”
To adapt the Chinese proverb, we want help to learn how to fish, rather than to be given fish for food.
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