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Gustáv Husak, President of Czechoslovakia, denouncing criticism of the 30th anniversary of the Communist coup: "There is an Arab proverb: 'The dogs bark, but the caravan continues...
...Arab land." Eban maintains that Sadat obviously does not expect the Israelis to surrender the Wailing Wall, that holiest of Jewish shrines, to Arab sovereignty. So if there is one exception, he reasons, there can also be others. Eban's advice to Sadat: "He should remember the proverb 'The best is the enemy of the good.' Those who say 'All or nothing' are more likely to get nothing than...
...most consumers, rising interest rates are an ill wind: they inflate the cost of borrowing to buy or build. But, to bend a proverb, the rise may soon blow some good to one group: savers...
...year especially, weather is on everyone's mind-and on everyone's tongue. It is Topic A everywhere, more apt to be chatted about than money, food, sex or even scandals. Nor is it regarded as trivial small talk-"the discourse of fools," as an English proverb has it. Indeed, it is fodder for the conversation of board chairman and bored charwoman, of young and old, of the bright, the dull, the rich and the poor. As if this basic coin of conversation needed to be gilded, the average American constantly reads about the weather in his newspapers...
...ancient Vietnamese proverb, quoted by Deputy Foreign Minister Vo Dong Giang last week during a visit to Bangkok, had an odd ring. Viet Nam was courting its former enemies and criticizing its former comrades...