Words similar to proverbs

Example sentences for: proverbs

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

John Ray, the great English biologist and pioneer lexicographer, author of Collection of English Proverbs (first edition 1670, second edition 1678) and Collection of English Words (first edition 1673, second edition 1691), suffered severely from an ulcerative disease of his legs.
Proverbs can be equally ambivalent when it comes to friendship.
One deals with more than 100 proverbs and sayings containing personal and geographic names.
Such native shrewdness means excellent judgment of character and more Shetland proverbs echo this.
Proverbs can be interesting because they are a key to human wisdom and folly; wellerisms seem to have no redeeming qualities.