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| | Popular Views of the Proverb |
 | | A proverb is a commonly-known, often-quoted, concise saying which expresses a generalization concerning some aspect of everyday existence. | | | A proverb is a short, concise, colloquial saying, easily memorized, and containing traditional beliefs taken to be true. | | | There certainly is much agreement in the non-scholarly world of what a proverb is even if scholars seem to be unable to agree on a reasonable definition at all. |
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http://www.deproverbio.com/DPjournal/DP,5,2,99/MIEDER/VIEWS.htm
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| | Proverb (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools |
| | They show how the body of the people put the inwardness of their history into proverb form, as it were a portable lesson for the times; they show also how the prophets availed themselves of these floating sayings to point their own message. | | | The king himself was 'large hearted' (I Kings 4:29), versatile, with literary tastes; "spake three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five"; and his whole generation, both in Israel and surrounding nations, was engaged in a vigorous movement of thought and "wisdom" (see the whole passage, I Kings 4:29-34). | | | That this should be the nation's fate was held as a threat over them by lawgiver and prophet (Deuteronomy 28:37; I Kings 9:7); and in adversities of experience, both individual and collective, the thing that was most keenly felt was to have become a byword (mashal) (Psalms 44:14; Psalms 69:11). |
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http://bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/7133
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| | African Proverb of the Month |
| | This proverb is currently very applicable to people, for example, people in the Western world and even some in Africa who are busy with many worldly things and forget the omnipresence of God in the things that they are using or enjoying. | | | The teaching of the proverb compares well with the message of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount where he says: "Blessed are peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God" (Matthew 5: 9). | | | Applied to Muslim-Christian relationships this proverb reminds us of the fact that often the tensions between Muslims and Christians refer to a power struggle between the religious leaders themselves, a power struggle in which the ordinary faithful are the victims. |
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http://www.afriprov.org/resources/explain2001.htm
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| | THE '96 TOKYO INTERNATIONAL PROVERB FORUM |
| | What is mirrored in these proverbs show how poor the common people were, who these poor vulgar people were, how they struggled to survive in tough circumstances, and what their philosophy of life was. | | | A considerable part ot them can be traced back to the classical literature of the region's past, in Europe the Greco-Roman classics, the Greek and Hebrew Bible and Medieval Latin, in the Far East to the Sanskrit and Chinese classics. | | | The best example for the relationship between the proverbial literacy and orality give the bible and the well known bible proverbs. |
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/steen/cogweb/Abstracts/TokyoForum_96.html
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| | A Specific Application of the Proverb in Ecclesiastes 1:15 |
| | The proverb describes the results of his quest; the world is crooked and bereft of any permanent advantage for the wise. | | | It therefore seems that Qohelet uses both phrases, "all the deeds which have been done under the sun" and "everything which is done under the heavens", interchangeably with "all the works of God". | | | It is a task which seeks to explain the distinction between the wise and the foolish by discerning the different consequences for each party. |
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http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/JHS/Articles/article6.htm
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| | proverb -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Proverbs is probably the oldest extant document of the Hebrew wisdom movement, of which King Solomon was the founder and patron. | | | A succinct saying that is in general use and that expresses widely held ideas and beliefs is known as a proverb. | | | ,” is not to say that it as a whole or even individual proverbs should be credited to King Solomon, for scholarly examination discloses that it contains seven collections of wisdom materials... |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article-9333826
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| | TG Proverb |
| | : but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father. | | | land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a | | | And one of the same place answered and said, But who is their father? |
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http://scriptures.lds.org/tgp/proverb?sr=1
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| | Chinese Proverbs |
| | When you say some place has "hidden dragons and crouching tigers" you mean that that place has able people who are kept willingly or unwillingly in a low profile. | | | Note, it has a commendatory rather than a derogatory connotation. | | | Drinking the water of a well, one should never forget who dig it. |
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http://www.wku.edu/~yuanh/China/proverb.html
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| | Rev. Peter Addo's Webpage - A Meditation on Ga Proverbs about Brotherhood |
| | In the biblical story we notice that Jesus never really tells the lawyer who his neighbor, brother or sister is. Jesus rather tells the story in a way to ask the lawyer who he is. | | | Religious Use and Application: I believe that there is a great potential in using African proverbs in our teaching and preaching for the followers of Christ ("KRISTOFOI"). | | | In my theological view, if we consider all men and women as brothers and sisters then we can easily refer to God as our Father ("WOTSHE"). |
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http://www.addo.ws/meditatn.htm
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| | USCCB - NAB - Proverb 3 |
| | Even the creation of the universe and its adornment (Genesis 1) were not done without wisdom (Proverb 3:19-20). | | | The offering of material things for divine worship is blessed by an increase of such goods (Proverb 3:9-10). | | | [18] A tree of life: cf Proverb 11:30; 13:12; Genesis 2:9. |
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http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/proverbs/proverb3.htm
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| | Proverb Bibliography |
| | European Proverbs in 55 Languages, with Equivalents in Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Japanese. | | | The Prentice-Hall encyclopedia of world proverbs: a treasury of wit and wisdom through the ages. | | | Proverb lore; being a historical study of the similarities, contrasts, topics, meanings, and other facets of proverbs, truisms, and pithy sayings, as expressed by the peoples of many lands and times. |
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http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Discourse/Proverbs/Bibliography.html
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| | Honeck, A Proverb in Mind |
| | The former holds that proverbs arise from, and are comprehended and used, in part, to satisfy constraints on the universal human urge to view the world in idealistic, perfectionistic terms. | | | Thus, for all forms of figurative language there is an indirect, nonliteral relationship between what is said and both that about which it is said and the intention in saying it. | | | To accommodate this outpouring, seven views of the proverb have been outlined: personal, formal, religious, literary, practical, cultural, and cognitive. |
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/comm/steen/cogweb/Abstracts/Honeck_97.html
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| | proverb |
| | Proverbs: 1 - The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of… | | | 1: The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of… Ch. | | | Proverbs were extremely popular among the Elizabethans, the most famous collections being those of John Heywood (1549?) and Florio (1578). |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0840336.html
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| | African Proverbs Project |
| | If missiologists could bring some of the best African and Western minds together from various disciplines to create tools for research and use of African proverbs, the church, the university and the world would be much the richer. | | | The gospel would be seen to bring more healing and less cultural schizophrenia to Africa, and African wisdom would be more recognized elsewhere. | | | Proverbs for Preaching and Teaching Series (three writers). |
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http://www.gmi.org/gmi/afr_prov.htm
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| | Proverb: It takes a Whole Village to Raise a Child |
| | In Kiswahili the proverb "Asiyefunzwa na mamae hufunzwa na ulimwengu" approximates to the same. | | | As I noted in my earlier message, some of us do relate to it as part of our backgrounds. | | | I keep hearing that this is a "traditional" African proverb, although I can say that it doesn't seem to be an Igbo one (that I know of). |
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http://www.h-net.org/~africa/threads/village.html
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| | progymnasmata: proverb |
| | This is similar to the "chreia," except the author of the saying is unnamed. | | | If one were to begin with this proverb from the Bible: | | | Solomon, that paragon of wisdom, did indeed show his acumen when he stated in Proverbs that it would be better to live in a tiny and insignificant dwelling than to have a mansion but share it with a cantankerous wife. |
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http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Pedagogy/Progymnasmata/Proverb.htm
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| | McSweeney's Internet Tendency: How to Make Your Own Proverbs |
| | In the end, the definition of a proverb is usually summed up as a short statement that contains some piece of wisdom, truth, or lesson. | | | No, you can use proverbs to teach future generations so they can learn the things you learned quicker than it took you to learn them. | | | I have a worry that I am sure everyone has. |
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http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/1/8carlin.html
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| | Computer Science - Duke University - News |
| | The competition included 254 human competitors, and for the first time in its history no one completed all seven puzzles perfectly. | | | Proverb initially analyzes the word and letter clues separately from the-across-and-down puzzle grids on which the answers must be arranged. | | | The name Proverb comes from "probabilistic cruciverbalist," meaning a crossword solver based on probability theory. |
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http://www.cs.duke.edu/dept_info/news/index.php?article=17
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| | quotations collection - famous proverbs |
| | A book is like a garden carried in the pocket. | | | Call on God, but row away from the rocks. | | | A HUGE collection of proverbs, proverbial sayings, clichés, maxims, adages, aphorisms, platitudes, mottos, old saws, inanities, common sayings, or whatever you want to call them. |
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http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/proverb.html
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| | Pancake City: Ancient Chinese Proverb |
| | Methinks the marketing guru who came up with that one was never without food for three days. | | | If we’re the result of intelligent design, then God is a dumb ass. | | | A very well known Ancient Chinese Proverb is that the sons to take care of elderly parents. |
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http://www.1001words.com/2005/05/ancient-chinese-proverb.htm
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| | Weather Proverbs |
| | Special thanks to 1001 Questions Answered About the Weather by Frank H. Forrester and Weather and the Bible by Donald B. DeYoung | | | But under certain circumstances, some proverbs do hold up to science. | | | Most long-range proverbs have no meteorological basis, including the legend of the ground hog. |
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http://www.wxdude.com/proverb.html
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| | The Random Irish Proverb |
| | Please bookmark and visit regularly, I am sure you will find it rewarding. | | | Welcome to Irelandseye.com - the home of the Random Irish Proverb. | | | Visit our homepage to see our new features, or find out how you can add our random proverbs to your homepage. |
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http://www.irelandseye.com/proverbs.htm
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| | Proverb - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Most proverbs express some basic truth or practical precept. | | | Proverbs are often borrowed from different languages and cultures, and sometimes come down to the present through more than one language. | | | A proverb which describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a "maxim". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proverb
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| | Proverb (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net |
| | Ahab's defiant words in answer to the insolent demands of Benhadad, "Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off," is a well known instance of a proverbial saying (1 Kings 20:11). | | | The Hebrew word thus rendered (Mashal) has a wide signification. | | | It comes from a root meaning "to be like," "parable." Rendered "proverb" in Isa. |
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http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/proverb.html
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| | Sensei's Library: Go Proverbs |
| | A proverb is a proverb, and a truth is a truth. | | | aLegendWai: I am doing the same when I understand the proverb. | | | Therefore, one proverb says Don't follow proverbs blindly. |
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http://senseis.xmp.net/?Proverb
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| | Note that "proverb," besides being synonymous with these other terms, also names one of the progymnasmata exercises, proverb. |
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http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Figures/P/proverb.htm
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| | PROVERB - LoveToKnow Article on PROVERB |
| | Lord Russells The wisdom of many and the wit of one is familiar. | | | Sprichworl), a form of folk-literature, or its later imitation, expressing, in the form of a simple, homely sentence, a pungent criticism of life. | | | Many definitions have been attempted of a proverb, of which none has met with universal acceptance. |
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http://73.1911encyclopedia.org/P/PR/PROVERB.htm
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| | Folklore: "Good fences make good neighbours": history and significance of an ambiguous proverb - The Twenty-First ... |
| | A glance into any proverb collection reveals their contradictory nature: "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" but "Out of sight, out of mind." Proverbs are not universal truths, and their insights are not based on a logical philosophical system. | | | Contrary to popular opinion, those seemingly plain and simple truths called proverbs are anything but straightforward bits of traditional wisdom. | | | However, as proverbs as analogies are of their nature ambiguous, that is, open to interpretation, they are of a vexing and paradoxical analogic ambiguity themselves (see Lieber 1984; also in Mieder and Dundes 1994, 99-126). |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2386/is_2_114/ai_106981965
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| | Proverbs 15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is |
| | Better 'is' an allowance of green herbs and love there, Than a fatted ox, and hatred with it. | | | Bible Gateway: Proverbs Chapter 15 Verse 17 NIV | | | Proverbs 15:17 Better is a dinner of herbs, where love is |
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http://bible.cc/proverbs/15-17.htm
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| | Proverb Player |
| | the following traditional African proverbs do not all necessarily originate from The Gambia. | | | if you have a comment about one of the proverbs, it's origin or meaning, or you would like to add a new one, then please send us a note. | | | you can also view the entire list of proverbs |
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http://www.africanculture.dk/gambia/Gambia-proverbs.htm
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| | Amazon.com: A Proverb in Mind : The Cognitive Science of Proverbial Wit and Wisdom: Books: Richard P. Honeck |
| | The language Honeck uses in his book is "clear and simple as the truth" and its thematic scope is exhaustively wide, embracing tropes, structure, communicative and social context of proverbs, as well as their cognitive, psychological and other aspects. | | | The book is in its essence and approach definitely cognitivistic, but Honeck dares to deflect the generally accepted cognitivist orthodoxy wherever he regards it reasonable. | | | Amazon.com: A Proverb in Mind : The Cognitive Science of Proverbial Wit and Wisdom: Books: Richard P. Honeck |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0805802312?v=glance
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| | USCCB - NAB - Proverb 5 |
| | [21-23] These verses are best read after Proverb 5:27. | | | He will die from lack of discipline, through the greatness of his folly he will be lost. | | | Conjugal fidelity and love for one wife only bring happiness and security (Proverb 5:15-20). |
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http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/proverbs/proverb5.htm
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| | Quote: proverb |
| | “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” – Proverbs 29:18 | | | “Luck is infatuated with the efficient.” — Persian proverb | | | It was willed to you by your children." - Kenyan Proverb, African-american Wisdom |
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http://www.schipul.com/en/quotes/search.asp?category=proverb
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| | Quotations Collected by Donald Gudehus |
| | Anonymous Zen proverb; also in the movie Zatoichi | | | In his first version in a 1921 ad it was stated as "One look is worth a thousand words" and attributed to a Japanese philosopher. | | | In his second version in a 1927 ad for Royal Baking Powder, it became "One picture is worth ten thousand words" and was attributed to a Chinese proverb. |
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http://www.chara.gsu.edu/~gudehus/Quotations
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| | Salon Sharps and Flats |
| | The three works on the disc -- "Proverb," "Nagoya Marimbas" and the title work -- embody both the old and the new of Reich's music. | | | The text of the work, "How small a thought it takes to fill a whole life," is a not only an appropriate metaphor for the piece, but for Reich's entire career. | | | With "Proverb," an erstwhile collaboration with Michael Tilson Thomas appears to have been replaced by a new partnership with Paul Hillier, who conducted the premiere performances of "The Cave" last year. |
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http://www.salon.com/april97/sharps/sharps970414.html
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| | The Useless Tree: An Ersatz Chinese Proverb |
| | Sam Crane emails to tell me that the ancient Chinese proverb "May you live in interesting times," which I cited earlier, has an, ahem, intere... | | | Sam Crane emails to tell me that the famous Chinese proverb "May you live in interesting times," which I cited earlier, has an, ahem, interes... | | | We've all heard of the suppose Chinese proverb, a curse really: "may you live in interesting times." It sounds like it could be Chinese but it probably is not. |
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http://uselesstree.typepad.com/useless_tree/2005/09/manufactured_ch.html
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| | Quoteland :: Quotations by Author |
| | You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice. | | | With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. | | | When a bonsai stops growing, you know it's dead. |
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http://www.quoteland.com/author.asp?AUTHOR_ID=105
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| | How to play the Proverb card game |
| | This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. | | | Thirty text cards with a different well-known proverb written on each card. | | | Thirty related picture cards with a picture representing each proverb written on the text cards. |
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http://www.sil.org/linguaLinks/literacy/ImplementALiteracyProgram/HowToPlayTheProverbCardGame.htm
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| | The PROVERB-Project |
| | PROVERB is a system presenting machine-found proofs in natural language (Read more in | | | Settled between automated theorem proving (ATP) and natural language generation (NLG), PROVERB uses techniques of both these fields. | | | In order to present proofs in a way as they can be found in mathematical textbooks, PROVERB first transforms and abstracts resolution proofs or natural deduction proofs to so-called assertion level proofs, which abstract from the basic calculus inference rules. |
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http://www.ags.uni-sb.de/~afiedler/proverb
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| | The Beeline - Hivelights: Proverbs: L |
| | "Listen to what they say of others and you will know what they say of you." -- Cuban proverb | | | "Let your ears hear what your mouth says." -- Jewish proverb | | | "Learn a new language and get a new soul." -- Czech proverb |
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http://bton.com/sidebar/proverbs/l.html
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| | African Proverbs, Stories and Sayings - Proverb of the Month |
| | We use a simple format that includes: meaning of the proverb; use of the proverb; and application of the proverb including a Biblical parallel. | | | African proverbs of previous months are found under "Resources" starting with the June, 1998 "African Proverb of the Month." You are invited to send an African Proverb to the moderator to be posted on this Website. | | | African Proverbs, Stories and Sayings - Proverb of the Month |
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http://www.afriprov.org/resources/proverbs.htm
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| | Answer to Puzzle #10 |
| | Each question is a clue to a well known proverb or saying. | | | A few "big" words have been used to disguise the proverb/saying. |
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http://www.actualentertainment.com/puzzlers/puzzle10.htm
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| | rogueclassicism: Latin Proverb of the Day |
| | This proverb reminds me of physics lessons long years ago. | | | Latin Proverb of the Day is now available on the web. | | | Comment: Each beginning is difficult to the degree that it requires a force. |
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http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/Posts/00001605.html
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| | The Proverb (2004) |
| | Plot Outline: The Proverb is a ten-minute mockumentary of contemporary journalism and religiosity, lampooning both as serious in form only. | | | I encourage anyone who gets a chance to see this at a boutique showing to seize the opportunity. | | | To summarize once again, The Proverb was well done, charming, hilarious, and underrated. |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400752
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| | One Proverb PDA iPod eBooks |
| | A collection of proverbs and sayings from around the world. | | | for Palm Reader includes African, Chinese, Mexican, Mom, Native American, Yiddish and Zen Proverbs | | | Drag and drop into the notes folder of your disc enabled iPod. |
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http://oneproverb.net/opPDAbook2.HTML
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