" She attributed the quote as a "Chinese Proverb" — but according to The New York Times, many people in China were "baffled" by the reference, with some calling it a "fake proverb.
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" – Chinese Proverb — Matt Bush (@ItsMattBush) June 12, 2018 "Got milk?
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As the ancient Twitter proverb goes: your faves could never.
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To quote an ancient NeverTrump proverb: Good luck with that.
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It's like that proverb: dig the well before you're thirsty.
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Donald Trump set heads to scratching on the eve of St. Patrick's Day by sharing a proverb with his gathered "Irish friends" that was neither Irish nor a proverb, as far as anyone could tell.
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But, runs an Arabic proverb, commitments are clouds, implementation the rain.
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"– Chinese Proverb — Matt Bush (@ItsMattBush) June 22018, 2018 "Just do it!
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But as the American proverb goes: Where there's smoke, there's fire.
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As the Chinese proverb goes, mountains cannot turn, only rivers can.
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But, as the Chinese proverb reminds us, in crisis lies opportunity.
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As the old proverb has it, be careful what you wish for.
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As the zen proverb puts it: Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.
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Voices As the old Yiddish proverb goes: Man plans and God laughs.
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The proverb translates to rushing into something without fully understanding the consequences.
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"You bow in front and fart behind", as a local proverb has it.
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"Excess is obnoxious, even in religious worship," is an oft-quoted Aleppo proverb.
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As an old proverb states: "he who pays the piper calls the tune".
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The word "proverb" is defined in the dictionary as a short, popular saying.
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My father was fond of the Latin proverb De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
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There's a proverb: A bedbug in the wall doesn't go to a ball.
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"There is a Chinese proverb, 'The soil is too rich,'" Mr. Feng said.
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Once, storytelling was a shared experience, with emphasis on proverb, parable and myth.
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In fact, nothing seems to indicate that it's an actual proverb at all.
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"One swallow does not make a summer," Mr. Pillsbury said, quoting a proverb.
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"Battlefield," in contrast, was a short, stark work, as concise as a proverb.
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As an ancient proverb teaches, the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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The author of Trump's Irish proverb is possibly this business manager from Nigeria?
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But many Irish tweeters pointed out that they had never heard Trump's proverb before.
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It's a proverb with no known author, often misattributed to another president—Thomas Jefferson.
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The Native American proverb is true: 'We don't inherit the land from our parents.
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As the proverb, which Smash Mouth misquoted, says, all that glitters is not gold.
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"Good things come to those who wait" is more than an old English proverb.
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But to paraphrase a Lebanese proverb, the best generosity is giving without being asked.
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"When the sun rises, it rises for everyone," he says, quoting a Mexican proverb.
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There is a Greek proverb, however, that nothing is more permanent than the temporary.
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Then I'll realize it's a Lou Reed proverb I've picked up off my turntable.
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Ms. Weldekian used an old Amharic proverb that made the room burst into laughter.
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There's this African proverb which says that a dead grandfather is a burned library.
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But the quote did not appear to be a Chinese proverb, according to multiple outlets.
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A user on the fact-checking site Snopes questioned the legitimacy of the alleged proverb.
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The popular proverb about necessity being the mother of invention is certainly true for us.
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There's a proverb that says, 'See a man who is excellent at what he does?
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"I was like a newborn calf, unafraid of tigers," he said, invoking a Chinese proverb.
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According to an old proverb, whom the gods want to destroy they first make mad.
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"If you want to walk fast, then walk alone," she said, citing an African proverb.
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It is like that other ancient Italian proverb: Libentissime cum liberis uno loco se continere.
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"It takes a village to raise a child," is a proverb we hear repeated often.
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According to one Jewish proverb, a man who saves one life saves the whole world.
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It's an age-old proverb — and one Morgan Stanley says applies to the tech sector.
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The implications of this proverb for sexual equality and accountability are disturbing, to say the least.
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" Mansel also quotes an Aleppo proverb of the time: "Excess is obnoxious, even in religious worship.
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An old proverb cautions us not to make mountains out of molehills—but Scorpios aren't listening.
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Unfortunately for their partners, however, Aries' favorite proverb is All is fair in love and war.
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Stock is to the cook what pitch is to the opera singer, goes a Chinese proverb.
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He cited a Russian proverb: "You cannot sell the hide of a bear before it's killed."
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A local disc jockey and producer, Brother Duke Henderson, recorded the group on his Proverb label.
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There's a Swahili proverb, Mtoto wa nyoka ni nyoka—the child of a snake is a snake.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — It is spring that determines how a year turns out, according to an Afghan proverb.
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"If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is," goes an old Wall Street proverb.
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Op-Ed Contributor According to an old proverb, success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.
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"What does the man do before enlightenment" I ask, quoting some Zen proverb from my own youth.
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There's an old Russian proverb: The tallest blade of grass is the first cut by the scythe.
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" Clementine concluded by citing a French proverb, "One can reign over hearts only by keeping one's composure.
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Odontuya often uses a Mongolian proverb in her conversations with patients who are close to the end.
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This reminds me of an old proverb - "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush".
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A few people sleuthing for the proverb online posted links to Alhassan's poem, which includes a similar stanza.
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But I hate listening to the naysayers, because it&aposs boring, and it reminds of a Chinese proverb.
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Before leaving, each customer is asked to put their hand in a basket and pick a positive proverb.
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Twitter users ambushed the senator after he tweeted a religious proverb that they assumed targeted President Donald Trump.
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"Personnel is policy," the proverb goes, and Trump's policy is, for the moment, not to have a policy.
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"To forge iron, one must be strong," he said, using a traditional proverb to underline the party's resolve.
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Turnabout is fair play, the proverb goes, but in the case of "Despacito" the forethought just wasn't there.
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Shrimp remains the most important shellfish to Swedes, so much so that shrimp has its own Swedish proverb.
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" Indian Proverb "One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.
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"In Pashto, we have a proverb that you cannot hold two watermelons in one hand," Hikmat told me.
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LONDON (Reuters) - "If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again," goes the proverb used to encourage students.
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Faulty sourcing, incidentally, runs in the family—earlier this year, Ivanka Trump appeared to have invented a Chinese proverb.
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"Trust but verify," joked that source, using a Russian proverb that was widely used back in the Reagan era.
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Here is my own Bernardini Proverb, based on the messages conveyed by the overwhelming majority of proverbs: Be humble.
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"When a hyena runs after you long enough you end up losing fear," she said, quoting a Rwandan proverb.
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The Dutch proverb "unknown makes unloved" applies here: People have no idea [what I have] and it scares them.
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" In dissent, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote that "the majority opinion rests on proverb rather than precedent.
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"I am like a fallen leaf that will eventually return to the roots," he said, invoking a Chinese proverb.
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Gates meets people trying to live by the proverb "better dead than ordinary" in the face of financial instability.
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The title comes from a Chinese proverb that Kay Redfield Jamison wrote about in her memoir, An Unquiet Mind.
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And from Dennis Rodman's arrival in Singapore to Ivanka Trump's "Chinese proverb" gaffe, unscripted moments often stole the show.
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" Beneath the roses, running vertically down her left bicep, is an Arabic proverb: "I suffered, I learned, I changed.
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The book calls to mind a proverb from Madagascar: Marriage is not a tight knot, but a slip knot.
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Her speech, alternating between slangy English and proverb-laden Mandarin, puts one in mind of a human split screen.
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Some of the best are concentrated in "Visual Orders," a proverb-poem in unnumbered sections that reads like personal scripture.
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"Get you a woman who can do it all," she wrote, a phrase that's already become a familiar internet proverb.
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" Errol Louis: Soleimani killing will test whether fortune favors bold An ancient Latin proverb holds that "Fortune favors the bold.
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What we are dealing with is — there is an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies; it just hibernates.
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We all had a big St. Patty's Day laugh at the "Irish proverb" Trump publicly claimed as his favorite on Thursday.
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"Tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are," the question said, quoting a Russian proverb.
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According to a popular proverb, if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.
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There's the old proverb that if you want to go fast, go alone; if you want to go far, go together.
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"I've got an African proverb that would match the shoe," he said then, and closed his eyes to remember it precisely.
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One well-known Khmer proverb goes: women, like white cloth, are easily soiled, while men, like gems, can be polished anew.
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One well-known Khmer proverb goes: women, like white cloth, are easily soiled, while men, like gems, can be polished anew.
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Mr. Kalanick can take heart in one thing: There is little biological evidence to indicate that the proverb is actually true.
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The "Cameroonian proverb," or the pithy definition attributed to the nonexistent "Small's Enlarged English Dictionary," were phonies, invented by the author.
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" Une hirondelle ne fait pas le printemps " ("One swallow doesn't make a spring"), he says, citing a typically gloomy French proverb.
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As that ancient Minnesota proverb warns, be careful what you wish for, uff dah - you might just get it, you betcha.
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" -Chinese Proverb — Ivanka Trump (@IvankaTrump) June 11, 2018 In 2013, Trump tweeted, " 'If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
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Ivanka Trump had folks in China — and on Twitter — scratching their heads after she tweeted a "Chinese proverb" that apparently doesn't exist.
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According to a Russian proverb, notes Mr Fridman, you can never be sure you won't go to prison or be a beggar.
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As the Latin proverb cited by a jovial immigration lawyer goes: "Your own property is in peril when your neighbour's house burns."
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"Do for self" is an old Black Muslim proverb that promotes the practice of claiming your agency and telling your own story.
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" He then references a Kinyarwanda proverb—"Amarira y'umugabo atemba ajya mu nda"—that literally translates to "men's tears flow inside the belly.
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Roosevelt attributed the phrase, which came to refer to U.S. dominance, to a proverb he learned while on a safari in Africa.
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When it comes to the current trade negotiations, the Chinese proverb of "crossing the river by feeling the stones," may be apt.
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His name is based on a Chinese proverb about "surprising everyone with a first attempt," according to the South China Morning Post.
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"You can give a man some food, and he'll eat it," she liked to say, in a paraphrase of the common proverb.
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But in welcoming Mr. Kenny, he cited what he said was an Irish proverb that speaks to the fickleness of human relations.
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After the photo shoot, Neak stained the colors of the flowers directly onto the print, in a subversive reference to the Khmer proverb.
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There is that great proverb — that until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.
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The rapid capitulation this year, however, has led many investors to consider if it's time to apply the "buy low, sell high" proverb.
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PENCE: What we're dealing with is the — you know, there's an old proverb that says the Russian bear never dies, it just hibernates.
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"A change is as good as a rest" says the old proverb, though whoever coined it had clearly never watched Premier League football.
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Summing it up is the proverb "Ny Fihavanana no talohan'ny vola", which translates loosely as "the relationship is more important than the money".
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But that could quickly change "To paraphrase a Danish proverb, it's dangerous to make seasonal tornado predictions, especially about the future," Marsh says.
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But he isn't its originator and while, sure, an Irish person could have conceivably written the rhyme, proverb is most definitely pushing it.
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So goes the translation of a Chinese proverb explaining how to eat xiao long bao, the wildly popular dumplings known for their soupy filling.
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This proverb has nothing to do with food; it's how BJ the Chicago Kid decided to construct the songs on his new album 1123.
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I was deeply unfamiliar with this proverb, so I turned to Google to learn more about the wintering habits of the Eurasian brown bear.
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Zefzafi, who himself was involved in politics in his youth, evoked an Arabic proverb to express his feelings of helplessness over his son's arrest.
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There's an old Chinese proverb that says: The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the second-best time is now.
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The term "don't feed the trolls" is often thrown around as a digital proverb for dealing with online negativity, but Graceffa does the complete opposite.
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The Italian proverb traduttore, tradittore ("translator, traitor") resonates so deeply in the critical and secondary literature around translation that it is rarely called into question.
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"The Mummy" begins with a supposed Egyptian proverb to the effect that "we" never really die; "we" assume new forms and keep right on living.
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Then he quoted a proverb suggesting central authorities can have little sway over local affairs: "But the mountains are high, and the emperor is far."
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"As a Finnish proverb reportedly has it, love is a flower that turns into fruit at marriage," the author Roxane Gay wrote in her review.
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And, lo and behold, if you Google the phrase, "famous Irish proverb," the quote pops up as one of the first results -- complete with a shamrock.
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In June, she tweeted a quote that she identified as a Chinese proverb before her father met with Kim Jong-un, The New York Times reported.
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"Only when the year grows cold do we see the qualities of the pine and the cypress," Li wrote, referencing a Chinese proverb about evergreen plants.
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" Associates who work in Panda Express restaurants wear uniforms with the Chinese proverb: "Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come.
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There's a lesson in the familiar Greek proverb of Achilles - though strong and seemingly invulnerable, all things regardless of how great have weaknesses that may confound.
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There's an old Italian proverb that rings particularly true during the holiday season: A tavola non si invecchia ("No one grows old at the dinner table").
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Mr Kinkonda inserts hidden satirical messages into his street scenes: a dog surrounded by objects refers to a proverb that ultimately hints at the uselessness of politicians.
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And so coming out of the G20, the international community has, to draw on the old proverb, decided to light a candle rather than curse the darkness.
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Ri said Saturday that denuclearization should happen phase by phase and referred to a Korean proverb "slowly but surely" when describing the country's preferred approach to denuclearization.
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" The bottom-shelf variety, three stars, is traditionally drunk at Greek funerals to aid the local proverb that "there's no wedding without tears, no funeral without laughter.
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Finns themselves buy into parts of the stereotype: If a stranger smiles at you in the street, goes a Finnish proverb, they're either drunk, foreign or crazy.
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On Money When elephants fight, the ants perish: The Khmer proverb captures the sense of peril in the escalating trade war between the United States and China.
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" Dr. Kahleova says the take-home message is like the old proverb, to eat "breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
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McNeill tried to calm Musk down, and repeated a proverb he had once heard: No man comes up with a good idea when being chased by a tiger.
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McNeill tried to calm him down and repeated a proverb he had once heard: No man comes up with a good idea when being chased by a tiger.
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In one post, he used a proverb to criticize the government's approach to rising militancy, likening it to raising a baby snake by feeding it milk and bananas.
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Three were based on the old proverb "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil," to which he added a fourth portrait, of him holding his nose.
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"If our leaders flinch at this responsibility, they would do well to heed the Proverb 'if a ruler listens to lies, all his officials become wicked,'" he added.
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Three were based on the old proverb "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil," to which he added a fourth portrait, of him holding his nose.
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"Radioactive wolves" Bruce Marks, an attorney in Philadelphia who represents prominent Eastern Europeans, told CNN in recent days there was a Russian proverb that applied to Fruman and Parnas.
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" Ryan Avery, who won the contest in 2012 with a speech called "Trust is a Must," cites a Native American proverb: "Tell me a fact, and I will learn.
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Today's children of immigrants may face new issues, Hassan says, pointing to an African proverb: A mule that eats grass with a horse thinks of himself as a horse.
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There's an old Chinese proverb: If you sit by the river long enough, sooner or later the bodies of all your enemies will come floating by, one by one.
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This particular curve ball is called Vowel Play, and the rules are simple: Fill in the 16 mini puzzles, each of which contains a well-known saying or proverb.
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His memoir — its title, "Eat the Apple," refers to a vulgar Marine proverb — is in its own way a loving portrait, but it is also unsparing, ugly and outrageous.
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"In the end, the man holding the whip owns the bull," he said, quoting an Indian, not Kenyan, proverb, insinuating that Indians exercised a more subtle form of influence.
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My mind just kept turning to the 19th century French proverb: Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose, The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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The as-yet-unfinished piece is titled "Anpil Min Chay pa Lou," a play on the Creole proverb "Min anpil, chay pa lou" (or "many hands make the load lighter").
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The genesis of basketball's most unstoppable offensive player adopting one of the sport's most feared moves can be traced back to an old proverb: necessity is the mother of invention.
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LinkedIn is a somewhat unusual place to troll for dick because, well, it's a professional space, and you're not supposed to fuck where you shit or whatever the proverb is.
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To recall a Greek Proverb which was the guiding principle of the World Affairs Council where I grew up in Philadelphia: In a democracy, agreement is not essential – participation is.
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Renée Wilson-Simmons, director of the National Center for Children in Poverty at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, said a proverb could sum up the wisdom in the research.
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"There is a reason for the old lawyer's proverb — the fish got hooked because it opened its mouth," said Robert F. Bauer, a White House counsel under President Barack Obama.
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This scenario conjures up the old African proverb "When the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers" — a lesson not lost on those of us here on the ground.
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In the words of an old English proverb, hakuna matata — have no worries — for the slideshow ahead will aid you in getting past those awkward encounters we know all too well.
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In an August op-ed in the New York Times, Mallory was accused of inciting violence against police for citing a Jamaican folk proverb she posted on Instagram in November 2016.
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"As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly," lawmaker Jacob Rees-Mogg, head of the European Research Group, told the BBC, citing a Biblical proverb.
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Frederick Walker, a chief pilot for Air America, said that Mr. Smith, as custodian of the airline's history, "embodies the African proverb: 'When an old man dies, a library burns down.'"
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That proverb, ascribed to Aristotle, seems an apt description of the art market—at least it is if a study of artistic careers, published this week in Science, is to be believed.
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Mr Harding quotes an old Somali proverb: Me and my clan against the world;Me and my family against my clan;Me and my brother against my family;Me against my brother.
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And as the Chinese proverb said, when you want to get rid of the bell round the tiger's throat you may as well ask whoever put it on to take it off.
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In such a setting, I think of the Russian proverb Ronald Reagan used during his negotiations with Mikhail Gorbachev on the treaty regulating intermediate-range missiles: One must trust, but also verify.
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The Arabic proverb says living in the shadow of a man is better than living in the shadow of a wall, which means that having a husband is better than staying unmarried.
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Such is the fate of the center's high-profile Mark di Suvero sculptures, one a recent transplant from Storm King in New York ("Beethoven's Quartet," 2003), the other coming from Dallas ("Proverb," 2002).
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"Mens sana in corpore sano, as the Latin proverb says" Kuczynski said, without providing a translation, perhaps cementing his elitist image even as he proved he is not afraid of not looking cool.
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" A White House spokeswoman said the proverb was "originally supplied in an email on March 8 by the State Department via [the National Security Council] as building blocks in advance of this event.
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He frequently used a translation of the Russian proverb, "Doveryai no proveryai," commonly known (and used now by politicians of all stripes) as, "Trust, but verify," as a means of selling his decisions.
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It now seems obvious that the spirit of Beat Happening's proverb—that kids shouldn't let received ideas of musicianship stop them from making art—doesn't contradict Diamond's vulnerable approach to performance and pop.
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"The Head and the Load" — its title plays on the Ghanaian proverb: "The head and the load are the troubles of the neck" — follows a number of acclaimed operas Mr. Kentridge has directed.
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It is said that "it takes a village to raise a child" but what I understood early in my career is that this famous old African proverb also applies to women in sports.
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"It takes a village to raise a child" is a proverb with specious roots that has been used by everyone from former Secretaries of State to random strangers doling out unsolicited parenting advice.
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"His attitude was, 'Dead pigs aren't afraid of boiling water'," the person said, using a Chinese proverb to describe Feng's attitude: Any attempt to punish him was futile because the loan was already lost.
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One example is how little children can understand the meaning of a proverb — like "a stitch in time saves nine" or "a rolling stone gathers no moss" — in a way that a computer can't.
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"It's like killing a chicken in front of a monkey - people are scared," said Pornpen Khongkachonkiet, chair of Amnesty International's Thailand board and director of the local Cross Cultural Foundation, invoking a Thai proverb.
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" The alcohol lobby would love an Ethiopian proverb that recurs like a mantra: "When there is no beer, there is no work," although the Sumerians were blunter: "Not to know beer is not normal.
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Yet the comparative banality of Mirvis's post-religious life reminds me of another Jewish aphorism: "If you are going to eat pork," as the Yiddish proverb goes, "let the juices run down your beard."
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Chung declared that Xi was "delighted" with the development, and even offered a traditional Chinese proverb "once hard ice melts, spring comes and flowers bloom," to describe the current situation on the Korean peninsula.
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" As he recalled in his 22012 memoir, "Mission Italy: On the Front Lines of the Cold War," he answered, diplomatically, with an old Venetian proverb, "Prima de parlar, tasi" — "Before you speak, be quiet.
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Related: Steve Powers: From Coney Island to Proverb King Graffiti Legend Steve Powers Lines NYC Streets with Irony Just Add Water: Rain-Activated Street Art A Street Art Skate Park Fills a Former Spanish Church
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It used to be an article of faith in democratic countries that "all politics are local," as the legendary House Speaker Tip O'Neill explained, but the catchy proverb misses much of what is happening today.
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Ivanka Trump, the elder daughter of President Trump, celebrated her father's landmark meeting with the leader of North Korea after decades of hostilities between the two countries by quoting what she called a Chinese proverb.
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First there was Donald Trump's green MAGA baseball cap, then there was his failed attempt to share an Irish proverb, and Thursday there was the not-exactly-positive response to Paul Ryan's pint of Guinness.
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Trust but verify, this Russian proverb made famous in America by Ronald Reagan after signing the intermediate-nuclear range forces treaty is sage advice not just for nuclear arms reduction treaties but corporate tax reform.
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So it is 2017 now, and so the ancient Chinese proverb goes: If a Valentine's Day falls and you didn't boast and/or vent about it online, did the Valentine's Day ever even happen at all?
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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An old proverb states that 'revenge is a dish best served cold' but Dominika Cibulkova's service was smoking hot when she exacted vengeance on Angelique Kerber to claim the WTA Finals title on Sunday.
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Her Twitter account over the past week has fired off a handful of generic messages, celebrating the US's successful bid for the World Cup in 2026, touting women's responsible borrowing habits, and quoting a Chinese proverb.
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" — JIMMY FALLON "In a recent tweet, Ivanka Trump misattributed a quote from an American newspaper as a Chinese proverb — which is weird, because usually she takes things that are Chinese and passes them off as American.
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Compared with the size of its brain, an elephant's hippocampuses are about 40% larger than those of a human being, suggesting that the old proverb about an elephant never forgetting may have a grain of truth in it.
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In Chinese, we have a saying that [proverb in Chinese], I'm not sure how to put that in English, it's kind of, just-, it's like a quick kick-off, but with a long accumulation, kind of like that.
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"Pacta sunt servanda," Commission spokesman Alexander Winterstein told a regular news briefing when asked about Greek plans not to introduce a pension cut agreed with lenders in 2017, using a Latin proverb which means "agreements must be kept".
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"Yeah, it's that idea of one of our pillars is unity, and there's an African proverb that says, 'if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together,'" coach Tony Bennett said.
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White Collar Watch The Securities and Exchange Commission's latest insider trading case, against the prominent hedge fund manager Leon G. Cooperman, will test whether the old proverb "where there's smoke, there's fire" is enough to prove a violation.
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Drawn from archival photographs, memories, and Namoda's imagination, the exhibition's title and the body of work are inspired by an East African proverb that reminds us that luxury is of little significance when you are surrounded by love.
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Her Twitter account fired off a handful of generic messages before going radio silent after June 6.33, celebrating the US's successful bid for the World Cup in 2026, touting women's responsible borrowing habits, and quoting a Chinese proverb.
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"There's an African proverb: when the hunter tells the story the lion always loses," said Frank Figgers, who was involved in civil rights work as a student at Tougaloo College in Jackson in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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Her Twitter account fired off a handful of generic messages before going radio silent after June 15, celebrating the US's successful bid for the World Cup in 073, touting women's responsible borrowing habits, and quoting a Chinese proverb.
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Scout, puzzled, learns from Miss Maudie Atkinson, the widow across the street, that there is a proverb, "It's a sin to kill a mockingbird," and the reason for it: The birds harm no one and only make beautiful music.
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And while I am not here to make a claim about whether or not these companies are good or bad, or whether the technology is ethical, I am partial to the journalistic proverb that sunlight is the best disinfectant.
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Last December, when Mr. Strache's party received key portfolios in Austria's new government, an article in the German weekly "Die Zeit" commented: "They don't want to bite, just to smoke," referring to the proverb that barking dogs don't bite.
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"A barefoot person does not fear those who wear shoes," Mr. Xi told Mr. Obama, invoking a Chinese proverb to convey that an impoverished nation like North Korea had nothing to lose by standing up to China and the United States.
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Citing the Russian proverb that Ronald Reagan used to sum up his feelings on negotiating with the Soviets — "Trust but verify" — the group said in a written statement that it was not yet prepared to fully support Mr. Trump's candidacy.
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" The foreign ministry's silence is an important beat in the Chinese government's familiar hostage diplomacy or tit-for-tat diplomacy routine and does bring to mind a popular Chinese proverb that literally translates to "no 300 taels of silver buried here.
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When Egyptians are under stress, people say akl el aish murr—"eating bread is bitter"—a proverb that more accurately tries to say: Unemployment is high, economic opportunities are scarce, corruption is ripe, marriage and food are expensive, traffic is unbearable, etc.
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Plus, I've always believed in the cautionary proverb: There but for the grace of God, go I. Yet I also can't help but be shocked at the poor judgment exhibited by a member of what is still the world's premier law enforcement agency.
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Sure, the odds of mutilating your hand or taking out your buddy's eye are drastically higher when you use a technique developed by cavalrymen, but he who doesn't risk never gets to drink Champagne, if the Russian proverb is to be believed.
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She met a number of times with Reagan, and she was widely credited with telling him of the Russian proverb "doveryai, no proveryai" — "trust, but verify" — which he repeated in a meeting on arms control with the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev.
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Trump's proverb was printed on page 216, part of a three-stanza poem that was included at the end of the report with no attribution aside from Harold Keating, the Secretary of Local 83 out of New Haven who compiled the report.
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"There is an African proverb that if you give a man a fish, he would eat it and come back for another fish tomorrow, but if you give him a boat, he'll go and be able to fish for a day for himself," he said.
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A large mirror depicting the outline of a clenched fist with its thumb replaced by a pickle is a representation of the Egyptian proverb, "Life is like a cucumber, one day in your hand and one day in your ass," according to the press release.
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Yet, less than three weeks later, Mr. O'Neill has commenced with a shake-up of the command levels just below him, showing that a proverb adopted by policing — "a new broom sweeps clean" — still reigns, though, in Mr. O'Neill's case, it is not so new.
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"We always love to say in editorial meetings an idiom or proverb in Malay: 'If there's a pound of flour, and just one strand of hair, you pull the hair without disturbing the flour,'" he said, explaining that means being critical without creating a stir.
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On both sides of our car, hundreds of men walk by in shirts bearing snappy slogans celebrating Hitler and Nazism—for instance, "Wer A sagt, muss auch Dolf sagen" ("Whoever says A, must also say Dolf," which is a play on an old German proverb).
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In Women's Work, the artist riffs on the antiquated proverb, "Man may work from sun to sun; but woman's work is never done," through a series of textile fragments collaged onto painted canvases that end up looking like a cross between Rauschenberg works and Rorschach inkblots.
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In what may have been a stab at a joke, Antonio Delfim Netto, 89, a former finance minister and one of Brazil's most prominent economists, said, "God has given up on Brazil," upending the sunny proverb — "God is Brazilian" — that remained in wide use here until recently.
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A quick search of Trump's "proverb," though, immediately turns up online in inspirational quote books, toast books, books full of blessings, homemade books, memes and many religious books, including a union journal from the 1930's we dug up in a rare bookstore in San Francisco.
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"During his commentary on The 700 Club on Monday, Dr. Robertson was making the point that Americans no longer have respect for God, and as a result, no longer have respect for one another or our government." they wrote, adding that he was making reference to a specific Biblical proverb.
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His book opens with a proverb from the 14th-century Muslim scholar Ibn Batuta, who notes that "nowhere in the world are there to be found people richer than the Chinese" — a slice of ancient wisdom that at some point in the next few years will be true once again.
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Trump didn't explicitly say the words he was about to share with his "Irish friends" were Irish, to be fair, though it's pretty clear the rhyme is less of a proverb and more one of those unattributable quotes you find on a 22017s wall hanging in a thrift store in Omaha.
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But when he was asked at the conference on Friday if he would take sides in the trade war between the United States and China, Mr. Putin said he was citing a Chinese proverb that "when tigers fight in the valley, the smart monkey sits aside and waits to see who wins."
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The Trump administration cited very real Russian violations — but while it was actually Reagan who brought the Russian proverb "trust, but verify" into American political parlance, he was also smart enough to know that the party that actually pulls out of a treaty is the one that gets the political blame for failure.
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When Megan Thee Stallion pulled up to Charlie Sloth's Beats 1 radio show "Fire in the Booth," she fully embodied the show's name, delivering a red-hot, lyrically dizzying freestyle featuring a wide variety of future Instagram captions and sexually empowering mantras (especially this proverb: "He say I should be nicer, well, your dick should be bigger").
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Proving the old FBI proverb, "when in doubt, cross it out," still permeates the bureau's hallowed halls, the agency decided to redact the names of reporters from The Daily Planet—the fictional newspaper of record for the City of Metropolis in the DC universe—in records disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.
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The Nashville singer Jessie Baylin serenaded the 50 or so house party attendees in a lounge stocked with cocktails and green curry-spiced popcorn; the culinary travel consultant Christina Grdovic moderated a fireside chat with Mr. Zimmern, in which he shared a Buddhist proverb, told to him by the Dalai Lama, that helped him come to terms with his past substance abuse.
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Among the historical files are scrapbooks, speeches, and family records, most notably a letter containing Roosevelt's first documented use of the proverb "speak softly and carry a big stick;" a campaign speech from his unsuccessful presidential bid in 1912; and a document criticizing Woodrow Wilson's policy on World War I. The bespectacled politician first sent his papers to the library for safekeeping in 1917.
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This is one of many sentiments I uncover that throw off a whimsical-idealistic college-student vibe, but I am reminded of another proverb cautioning about people in glass houses and the throwing of stones — and anyway, the real point of the exercise seems to be to underscore how easily utopias are made and discarded, or perhaps that one utopia can only exist at the expense of another.
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Here are some even less serious ideas that would certainly get people talking: Present the speech in beat poetry Employ a Powerpoint display (President Romney would totally have done this) Incorporate mime Deliver it entirely in allegory and proverb Conduct it Jeopardy-style (all points made in the form of a series of questions) Belt it out Evita-style (sing every word; he can sing) Hire Kevin Spacey to deliver it as Frank Underwood
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