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A proverbial phrase or expression is a type of conventional saying similar to a proverb and transmitted by oral tradition. The difference is that a proverb is a fixed expression, while a proverbial phrase permits alterations to fit the grammar of the context. [1] [2] In 1768, John Ray defined a proverbial phrase as:
time, devourer of all things: Also "time, that devours all things", literally: "time, gluttonous of things", edax: adjectival form of the verb edo to eat. From Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15, 234-236. tempus fugit: Time flees. Time flies. From Virgil's Georgics (Book III, line 284), where it appears as fugit inreparabile tempus. A common sundial motto.
every unknown thing [is taken] for great: or "everything unknown appears magnificent" The source is Tacitus: Agricola, Book 1, 30 where the sentence ends with 'est'. The quotation is found in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short story "The Red-Headed League" (1891) where the 'est' is missing. omne initium difficile est: every beginning is ...
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about every knowable thing, and even certain other things: The Italian scholar Giovanni Pico della Mirandola of the 15th century wrote the De omni re scibili ("concerning every knowable thing") part, and a wag added et quibusdam aliis ("and even certain other things"). de omnibus dubitandum: Be suspicious of everything / doubt everything
anonymous proverb sunt superis sua iura: the gods have their own laws: From Ovid's Metamorphoses, book IX, line 500; also used by David Hume in The Natural History of Religion, chapter XIII: suo jure: in one's own right: Used in the context of titles of nobility, for instance where a wife may hold a title in her own right rather than through ...
Proverbs 4:10 — “Listen, my son, accept what I say and the years of your life will be many.” 83. Psalm 91:16 — “With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
it is bad to hurry, and delay is often as bad; the wise person is the one who does everything in its proper time. Ovid [7] fex urbis lex orbis: dregs [classical Latin faex] of the city, law of the world attributed to Saint Jerome by Victor Hugo in Les Misérables [8] [9] fiat iustitia et pereat mundus: let justice be done, even if the world ...