“The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.”
Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“Like sending owls to Athens, as the proverb goes.”
Plato, 32.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 3: Plato
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Francesco Berni (1497–1535) Italian poet
(Ed un certo proverbio cosl fatto
Dice cbe) il danno toglie ancbe il cervello;
E cbe cbi e rubato, come matto
va dando la colpa a questo e quello.
XLV, 4
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
Kathryn Lasky (1944) American children's writer
Source: The Capture
“Let there be light! said Liberty,
And like sunrise from the sea,
Athens arose!”
Source: Hellas (1821), l. 682
“Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.”
- Chinese proverb”
Alvin Toffler (1928–2016) American writer
“Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.”
Jules Verne book The Survivors of the Chancellor
Les poëtes sont comme les proverbes : l’un est toujours là pour contredire l’autre.
Source: The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875), Ch. 5: An Unusual Route
