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Example sentences for: sayings

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It also contains sayings that are frequently unattributed, unascribed, misunderstood and misapprehended, or words whose authors might wish to reconsider them.
Luckily, the world of proverbs, sayings, adages, maxims, and plain old saws is various enough to say anything you want.
I suppose most Germans who settled America, especially recently, were fairly literate people, whose sayings were easily taken as legal tender by the local inhabitants.
However, students of a foreign language soon realize that to master it fully, it is not enough to know the grammatical structure and basic vocabulary: one must also memorize a fair number of phrases and idiomatic expressions and, as a further step, 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.