Word: proverbes
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...Some will say that this will mean war. I don't believe it. It merely means that the Western powers are going to try to use the same strategy we have been using all along, and I think we shall appreciate that. Isn't there an old proverb saying, 'You must meet force with force?' Well, you're going to use force now. We are surprised it took you that long to get around to it. It will clear...
...looking straight out of the canvas. But his unimportant position at the festive board seems to rule him out. Baron van der Elst (The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages) decided that the groom just wasn't there. He backed up his opinion with an old Flemish proverb: " 'It's a poor man who is not able to eat at his own wedding.' That seems to be the case here...
...countries may find itself in Argentina's shoes if it tries to get out of the U.S. sphere of influence or otherwise opposes the State Department. No one wants to prepare a scaffold on which he may be hanged." One diplomat quoted a Spanish proverb: "When you see your neighbor being shaved, prepare to lose your own whiskers...
...Treasury's 918 pages bristle with songs and stories about Paul Bunyan, Old Stormalong, John Henry, Johnny Apple, seed, The Arkansas Traveler, backwoods boasters, killers, patron saints, miracle men - with many an anecdote, joke, tall tale, proverb, animal and ghost story, jingle, ballad, and hunks of widely known, rarely published Americana. If they tell little about U.S. history, they tell much about U.S. character. Editor Botkin wisely keeps his comment to a minimum, lets his collection tell its own story in its own lingo...
...motives, H.J. solemnly, sagely reversed the Greek proverb: In time of peace, prepare for war. And, said he, the Dutch deal was "only the beginning." Other rumored steps in the Kaiser "conversion": orders from Norway, Sweden, Venezuela...