This is a proverb.

The proverb runs as follows.

As the proverb says, Time is money.

In Wales we have a proverb.

A stitch in time saves nine is a proverb.

This is a proverb that I don't understand.

A way of looking is a way of not looking, runs a Chinese proverb.

This is a proverb the meaning of which I do not understand.

Do you have a similar proverb in French?

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Still, as the wise saying goes, better late than never!

Loose lips sink ships is received wisdom in central banking circles.

Is it unreasonable to claim, as the saying goes, that the proof is in the pudding?

NEW YORK There s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, goes the old English proverb.

There's an old African proverb that goes When spider webs unite, they can halt even the lion.

Another, older proverb has a similar thrust A dead goat has golden horns.

Extend your legs to the length of your carpet , is an Afghan proverb that equates to live within your means .

SEOUL If you chase two rabbits at once, the old saying goes, both will escape.

There is an old adage about how people s mistakes continue to live long after they are gone.

As a Russian proverb warns, Forget the past and lose an eye dwell on the past and lose both eyes.

As a Russian proverb succinctly puts it, Forget the past and lose an eye dwell on the past and lose both eyes.

NEW YORK If the facts don t fit the theory, change the theory, goes the old adage.

The old adage that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure applies with particular force to monetary policy.

Don t chase the rabbits, an old saying has it, because if you chase the rabbits, the elephants will kill you.

We all know of them, but nevertheless the Arabs say, The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on.

Impressive as the proverb may have sounded to the untrained American ear, it does not actually exist in Russian culture.

'And how about the old proverb?' remarked the old Prince, who had long been listening to the conversation with a humorous twinkle in his small glittering eyes. 'My daughters won't mind my mentioning it. Women's hair is long, but their wits...' The Russian proverb runs 'Woman's hair is long, but her wits are short.'

There's an old adage that applied for the years between 1950s and 1970s, when every aeronautical company was working on vertical takeoff aircraft.

This is at the root of the proverb nan wa piyaz, qash waz , meaning bread and onion be the food, with happy mood.

TBILISI Look before you leap is as sound a principle in foreign policy as it is in life.

And as the saying goes, when angry, you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

The adage in the bull market of the 1920 s was one step down, two steps up, again and again.

The saying is intended as a warning to social climbers not to show up in places where they are not welcome, but in the band's presentation, it puts on the cloak of social and political commentary.

And the adage that I'm referring to, that applied at that time, was that nothing comes down faster than a VTOL aircraft upside down.

Ballot box misdeeds have been a very real issue in the young democracies of Montenegro, Macedonia and Serbia, and as the saying goes, 'If I didn't laugh, I'd cry.'

Indeed, a German proverb to the effect that trust is good, but control is better has been the basis of eurozone leaders policy since the developed world s debt crisis engulfed the single currency s system of governance.

The updated adage for the recent bull market is one big step down, then three little steps up, again and again, so far at least.

Seldom do the chickens come home to roost as quickly as they have in recent years an ill conceived war, attempted on the cheap, has not brought peace to the Middle East.

Okay, so what this tells us is that, contrary to the old adage, monkey see, monkey do, the surprise really is that all of the other animals really cannot do that at least not very much.

Now, what's encapsulated in both these drowning metaphors actually, one of them is my mother's interpretation, and it is a famous Chinese saying, because she said it to me save a man from drowning, you are responsible to him for life.