Words similar to proverb

Example sentences for: proverb

How can you use “proverb” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Behind the telling proverb is a salutary regard for something infinitely more powerful.
Families, as the proverb suggests, should be closely knit.
The other appendix deals with the structure of the Russian proverb and gives separate sections of analytical proverbs, metaphorical ones, similes--proverbial comparisons (about 100), as well as contrasting couplets and negational proverbs, etc.
This will be appreciated by the non-native reader who is not familiar with the popularity of a certain proverb or saying.
Having no copy of Aelfric's Homilies available to me, I am unable to see exactly what this cleric and grammarian wrote c. 1000, but I will lay you dollars to doughnuts ( low colloq ., ca. 1920, Partridge) that the Grammarian is not the source of the misquote qua proverb, Money is the root of all evil.