English example sentences with "sayings"

The sayings of Confucius are famous.

Don't drag out Chinese sayings about the importance of an environment conducive to learning just to justify moving for a child's entrance exams!

But it is specially evil that the young maiden folk are exceedingly bold of speech and bearing, and curse like troopers, to say nothing of their shameful words and scandalous coarse sayings, which one always hears and learns from another.

Behind every animal on the Chinese zodiac lies an array of proverbs, sayings and stories.

There are sayings, phrases, idioms and proverbs in every language which can not be translated literally.

Despite their truth, sayings like "carpe diem", "live for yourself" and "know your worth" have degenerated into cliches for justifying rudeness, oddness, and apathy, at the hands of TV personalities and columnists. That is what is called "educated ignorance".

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

Like most right-wing sayings, "go woke, go broke" is aspirational; it does not reflect the world as it is, but the world as they believe it should be.

And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand.

This is one of his most famous sayings.

Those sayings are not his own.

Sancho Panza loves sayings.

We Americans often tweak sayings to fit the convo.