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Proverbs [ˈprɒvɜːbz] n (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) (functioning as singular) a book of the Old Testament consisting of the proverbs of various Israelite sages including Solomon Proverbs See also wisdom. a maxim, axiom, proverb, or old saying. 1. a fragment or extract from literature. 2. a collection of teachings, as the Analects of Confucius. a terse saying embodying a general truth, as “Time flies.” — aphorist, n. — aphorismic, aphorismical, aphoristic, adj. a creator of short, pithy instructive sayings; aphorist. — apothegmatic, apophthegmatic, apothegmatical, apophthegmatical, adj. — apothegm, apophthegm, n. a trite saying; a platitude. a pithy statement, often containing a paradox. — epigrammatist, n. 1. a collection or anthology of gnomes, or aphorisms. 2. aphoristic writing. maxims or sayings attributed to a religious leader. See also christ. a short, pithy statement that serves as a motto. — maximist, n. a rhetorical proverb. — paroemiac, adj. 1. the writing of proverbs. 2. the collecting of proverbs. — paroemiographer, n. the study of proverbs. — paroemiologist, paremiologist, n. 1. proverbs taken as a group. 2. proverbs taken as a field of study. — proverbiologist, n. — proverbiological, adj. an aphorism or witty saying.
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| He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart. First, it is likely that before the rise of the Ionian epos there existed in Boeotia a purely popular and indigenous poetry of a crude form: it comprised, we may suppose, versified proverbs and precepts relating to life in general, agricultural maxims, weather-lore, and the like. I thought it probable enough that Blanche Stroeve would not continue to find life with Strickland tolerable, but one of the falsest of proverbs is that you must lie on the bed that you have made. |
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