Sentences with phrase «ancient proverb»

In fact, there are two ancient proverbs from the Italian city of Florence that say, if you want to live a healthy and active life, drink whey, and, if everyone were raised on whey, doctors would be bankrupt.

Dr Curry would have done well to remember that ancient proverb qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent, or as we would say today: If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas.

There's an ancient proverb that sums up these assumptions, «If I love you more will you love me less.»

Erasmus recorded it as an ancient proverb in his Adagia, although the earliest known instance is in the Alexandreis, a 12th - century Latin epic poem by Walter of Châtillon.

(And BTW, she totally validates the ancient proverb, «Any woman wearing that much beige is hiding something.

You've probably heard the ancient proverb, «The enemy of my enemy is my friend.»

An ancient proverb says «light the candle and drive darkness away».

«We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children ``, invokes an ancient proverb that sums up the essence of the concept of sustainability that aims to not endanger future generations.

The name of the bathhouse actually came from an ancient proverb: The sea so wide for fishes to jump, the sky so high for birds to fly, which meant figuratively «infinite possibilities.»

As the ancient proverb goes: more moving than a selfie is the sight of one's own visage rendered in vapor and then vanished, with just a memory fleeting in the ether.

There is an ancient proverb to the effect that «those whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad».

Quoting an ancient proverb — «We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children» — Heider pointed out that sustainability is not simply a smart business initiative, it is the right course of action that will have far - reaching impact on society as a whole.