Word: proverb
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...founder of the House of Mayer [Louis B., theater owner], between the first Warner [Harry M., butcher's son] and the first Astor [John Jacob, butcher's son], ... In 50 years names like Zanuck, Mannix, and Selznick may well be great. . . . 'Honour,' says an ancient proverb, 'is but ancient riches...
...battles against monopoly in the city of Boston to his monumental dissenting opinions on the Supreme Court bench, Brandeis objected to size--to financial pyramids, to huge monopolies, to interminable leases. When speaking of the necessity for control of such institutions, he was fond of quoting an old German proverb: "Care is taken that the trees do not scrape the skies...
...Pillaging the Iranian countryside were mobs of Kurds, as warlike as the royal bootsman himself and the finest-physiqued men in the Middle East. The Shah had imported them in large numbers to work on the roads. Says an Arab proverb: There are three plagues in the world-the Kurd, the rat and the locust...
...salvos were uncommonly close, as you may have noticed, though I am told that some of those between decks mistook them for our own guns firing, a good example of the proverb 'When ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise...
There is a Serbian proverb, from the time of the Turks, which says that when Serbia is threatened the peasants pick up their guns and sing. Serbia's peasants marched and sang last week. So did the peasants of Bosnia, of Macedonia and of Montenegro. At Kragujevac in Old Serbia they marched round & round the village singing Oi Serbio! At Skoplje in South Serbia they sang Macedonian revolutionary songs. At Berane in Montenegro they sang battle songs from the days of the Turkish-Montenegrin wars. At Banja Luka in Bosnia they sang Be Ready, Komitadjis...