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As a Russian proverb warns, “Forget the past and lose an eye; dwell on the past and lose both eyes.”
“Kill the chicken to scare the monkey,” the old Asian proverb goes.
It was Kolakowski’s fate – a curse, if the Chinese proverb is to be trusted – to “live in interesting times.”
A way of looking is a way of not looking, runs a Chinese proverb.
As they talk, the leaders of rich countries may strike a self-satisfied pose, recalling as they do the old proverb, which says that forgiveness is divine.
Annan once made the point by citing an old Ghanaian proverb: “Never hit a man on the head when you have your fingers between his teeth.”Today’s
Read More from "Germany versus the Euro?"Stop Paying the PollutersBRUSSELS – “When the winds of change blow,” says an old Chinese proverb, “some build walls, and others build wind mills.”
As the Arab proverb puts it, patience is the key to happiness.
The Costs of Trade WarGENEVA – According to an old African proverb, “When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.”
According to a Chinese proverb, “To feed the ambition in your heart is like carrying a tiger under your arm.”
The Future of the Iran Nuclear DealNEW YORK – “There’s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip,” goes the old English proverb.
The old proverb notwithstanding, “Truth” alone never set anyone free.
Missing the Economic Big PictureBERKELEY – I recently heard former World Trade Organization Director-General Pascal Lamy paraphrasing a classic Buddhist proverb, wherein China’s Sixth Buddhist Patriarch Huineng tells the nun Wu Jincang: “When the philosopher points at the moon, the fool looks at the finger.”
There is an old English proverb that says, “Cometh the hour, cometh the man” – or, of course, the woman.
That hoary excuse for a corrupt organizational culture cannot even withstand the proverb from which it is derived: “One bad apple spoils the whole bunch.”
Nutrition Leadership During a PandemicACCRA – An African proverb says, “When the music changes, so does the dance.”
As a Chinese proverb puts it, “On a journey of a hundred miles, 90 is but halfway.”
Rather, in line with the Chinese proverb “no friendship can be built without fights,” they must express their disagreements clearly and respectfully, and assert their respective red lines honestly.
The government has strategies, and the people have counterstrategies, according to a Chinese proverb.
As the proverb goes, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
There is an old African proverb that says “when the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.”
His provincial common sense explained this change in the words of the popular proverb: 'new is beautiful.'
If I had been ill of no other distemper, I know the proverb too well to have let him come to me.''What proverb?' says he, 'Oh!
That night the housekeeper burned to ashes all the books that were in the yard and in the whole house; and some must have been consumed that deserved preservation in everlasting archives, but their fate and the laziness of the examiner did not permit it, and so in them was verified the proverb that the innocent suffer for the guilty.
Shortly afterwards Don Quixote perceived a man on horseback who wore on his head something that shone like gold, and the moment he saw him he turned to Sancho and said:"I think, Sancho, there is no proverb that is not true, all being maxims drawn from experience itself, the mother of all the sciences, especially that one that says, 'Where one door shuts, another opens.'
In this Spain of ours there is a proverb, to my mind very true—as they all are, being short aphorisms drawn from long practical experience—and the one I refer to says, 'The church, or the sea, or the king's house;' as much as to say, in plainer language, whoever wants to flourish and become rich, let him follow the church, or go to sea, adopting commerce as his calling, or go into the king's service in his household, for they say, 'Better a king's crumb than a lord's favour.'
These Arabs cut off his head and carried it to the commander of the Turkish fleet, who proved on them the truth of our Castilian proverb, that "though the treason may please, the traitor is hated;" for they say he ordered those who brought him the present to be hanged for not having brought him alive.
Finding himself now clear and quit of all quarrels, his squire's as well as his own, Don Quixote considered that it would be advisable to continue the journey he had begun, and bring to a close that great adventure for which he had been called and chosen; and with this high resolve he went and knelt before Dorothea, who, however, would not allow him to utter a word until he had risen; so to obey her he rose, and said:"It is a common proverb, fair lady, that 'diligence is the mother of good fortune,' and experience has often shown in important affairs that the earnestness of the negotiator brings the doubtful case to a successful termination; but in nothing does this truth show itself more plainly than in war, where quickness and activity forestall the devices of the enemy, and win the victory before the foe has time to defend himself.
"To write in any other way," said Don Quixote, "would not be to write truth, but falsehood, and historians who have recourse to falsehood ought to be burned, like those who coin false money; and I know not what could have led the author to have recourse to novels and irrelevant stories, when he had so much to write about in mine; no doubt he must have gone by the proverb 'with straw or with hay, etc,' for by merely setting forth my thoughts, my sighs, my tears, my lofty purposes, my enterprises, he might have made a volume as large, or larger than all the works of El Tostado would make up.
"Keep to your own station, Sancho," replied Teresa; "don't try to raise yourself higher, and bear in mind the proverb that says, 'wipe the nose of your neigbbour's son, and take him into your house.'
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