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As the old proverb says: "Well-fed horses don't rampage. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Like, according to the old proverb, naturally goes with like. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Those that cannot produce ideas often speak with the old proverbs! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse. -- Plutarch
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy. -- Stephen King
There is also an old proverb, that they who pay much attention to the body generally neglect the soul. -- John Calvin
But now I see well the old proverb is true: That parish priest forgetteth that ever he was a clerk! -- John Heywood
The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.' -- Frederick Marryat
If there is any truth to the old proverb that "one who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client," the Court now bestows a constitutional right on one to make a fool of himself. -- Harry A. Blackmun
Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested." The boy remembered an old proverb from his country. It said that the darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn. -- Paulo Coelho
There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life - in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers - and it is this: they took "kindness" for "weakness." -- Sylvester Stallone
I believe that patterns tend to repeat themselves and there are connections between the past and the present. There is the old proverb that reads, You cant know where youre going if you dont know where youve been. For me, history is like that. When you take history and combine it with myth, then you get mystery. -- Ashwin Sanghi
If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'. -- Bruce Springsteen
The old Chinese proverb springs to mind - No pain, no gain. -- Marian Keyes
An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb -- Chinua Achebe
There's a Chinese proverb that says it all: Painting is an old man's art. -- David Hockney
Believe! An old Latin proverb reads: "Believe that you have it and you have it." -- Wilferd Peterson
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I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory. -- Vincent Bugliosi
There's an old Celtic proverb that I follow: See much, study much, suffer much is the path to wisdom. -- Greg Jackson
The old Indian proverb holds true. Once you've cut off a person's nose, there's no point in giving him a rose to smell. -- Ravi Zacharias
Train up a child in such a way she or he should go; even when she or he is old she or he will not depart' Proverb -- Santosh Avvannavar

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