"I hear people quoting Biblical proverbs all the time, and they don't even know they're doing it."

"You have to blow on the fire slowly to get it started," he said, quoting a Russian proverb.

"The ice is breaking, to quote an old Russian proverb," he told them.

And don't quote proverbs about birds teaching fish to fly.

He quoted a Chinese proverb that to be a painter "you need the eye, the hand and the heart.

Kurt, my father used to quote an old Spanish proverb.

People always come to the rescue of victory," he added, quoting a French proverb.

They quoted a native proverb that "an ill-wind was blowing", and refused to go any further.

My father used to quote an old proverb to me, 'Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.'

"To quote an old proverb," Squares said, "before we go forward, we have to look back."