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...last 20 years, Pisar says, he has lived by the ancient proverb that. "The ink of the scholar teaches more than the blood of a martyr." Today, however, Pisar is no longer so sure. Pointing to the nuclear arms race and the Middle East conflict, the plight of the Third World's hungry millions, and rising inflation and unemployment world wide, Pisar sees shadows of the past, warnings of future terrors that could come...
When a TIME-sponsored delegation of businessmen and editors visited Saudi Arabia last year, Abdullah graciously received the group by quoting an old Arab proverb: "Your true friend is one who will tell you the truth, not one who just claims friendship." He then candidly told the group that the most dangerous threat to the Middle East was not the Soviet Union, as the Reagan Administration has argued, but the U.S. He explained: "I say this because of your total alliance with Israel, which makes the mass of our people take it for granted that Americans are anti-Arab...
Your Essay hit home. As a teacher and book collector, I liked to share knowledge. But in Colombia, South America, I learned a proverb that translates as "It is not known who is dumber, he who lends a book or he who returns...
After Ríos Montt got word of the radio appeal for him to join the leaders of the coup, he again consulted the church's elders. Said DeGolyer: "There is a proverb that says that in a multitude of counsel there is safety." Ríos Montt clasped hands with the elders and prayed. The phone rang. As the others listened on an extension, the general spoke to the coup leaders...
...suggested by saying already every two minutes. Nor is he aided by Director Milton Moss's attempts to create crowd scenes by bunching his cast in clumps. Doubtless the profit motive made the producers wheel a pushcart show to the Broadway stage. They might have recalled another Yiddish proverb: The longest road is the one that leads to the pocket. -By Stefan Kanfer