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Example sentences for: sayings

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As a once occasional translator of Russian, I am overpowered by an itch to comment on Emanuel Strauss”s review of Peter Mertvago's Comparative Russian-English Dictionary of Russian Proverbs & Sayings [XXIII,3].
In China, the team met a 6-year-old boy who has developed server software based on Confucian principles and the sayings of the late chairman Deng Xiaoping ("Better a pig with HTML than a donkey who knows DOS").
Herb once set down a list of "," sayings that you won't find in Bartlett's but that "resonated" with him.
In 1971 the late Russian paremiologist, G. Permiakov, tried to establish a proverb minimum, and he found that every Russian adult knew more than 800 proverbs and sayings.
Running English proverbs and sayings through my mind, I seem to find that although our language has the resources to be fairly pithy, we are not as attracted to pithiness as Russians and Romans.