proverb

some fancy combination of words usually protected by two quotation marks one at the beginning and other at the end. which when used to sounds cool ,intellectual and legitimate .

mom : go read some books dumb ass !
ninja son: but mom , i want to be the best ninja..
mom: (proverb) " pen is mightier than sword" son.
ninja son: yeah right!! you win.
mom: (proverb)"mother knows best"

proverb by yesitsgd February 28, 2016

Proverb

An erudite truncation of an intuitive concept that sagaciously expresses a greater truth in the visage of a simple and understandable maxim.

"And the wise man did say when asked about the principle of self-sufficiency:

'Give a man a porn mag and he can wank for a week, give a man broadband access to the internet and he can masturbate for a lifetime.'"

"Never trust a duck with a match"
The origin of this ancient proverb, like so many others, has been lost to the mists of time; recent archaeological findings, however, seem to support the predication that the provenance of the precept lies in 1st Century Rome, where the Great Duck of Saxony (later chronicled by Tacitus as the Surreptitious Duck of Saxony) - under the direction of Ambiorix, Prince of Germania - managed to infiltrate Rome and set alight the South-Eastern quadrant of the Circus Maximus, causing fire to disperse vociferously through the densely populated districts of Rome, leaving the city engulfed in flames for the next five days.
The eponymous Duck, having assimilated himself into the backdrop of the Aventine under the pretence of being a duck, obtained a match; from when and where he acquired the fateful match is unknown (eye-witnesses who survived the blaze claim to have overheard a person suffering from a duck-like affliction asking for a match to light his cigarette), but what he then proceeded to do with it is unequivocal. Observing that the fire was spreading quicker than he had anticipated, the Duck flew to the safety of the Imperial Palace where he was accosted by the Emperor Nero, who - entranced by the Duck's ebullience and duckish charisma - was inveigled into playing the lute as a celebration of the Duck and all duck-kind; all the while the Duck had perched itself on one of the Doric columns to gleefully gaze down below to the sight of a carbonic miasma emanating from the fire consuming the streets and the tenebrous clouds of smoke piercing the crepuscular skies as the Great Duck watched Rome burn.

Proverb by Denty Gimps-a-Lot December 9, 2008

Proverb

The pro verb and cool kid gigachad woman obliterator.

Guy 1: Have u met proverb
Guy 2: yes, he is damn hot

Proverb by Usahhdhajoqosbsb December 10, 2022

Proverb Overload 

When you use proverbs in regular conversation. Due to you or friends using them excessively on social networks to describe what's going through your/their mind.

Person 1- "I'm really starting to see the glass half-full ever since Tom put up the 'A bird in the hand is worth more than two in the bush' proverb."

Person 2- "Wow. Sounds like proverb overload."

Proverb Overload by Nation Wide March 24, 2009

Facebook Proverb

Proverbs created by people on Facebook through status messages that finds its ways across the world.

i.e. "Nothing is going right today, so I'm going left"--Facebook Proverb

Facebook Proverb by [/|{The_Doctor}|\] January 18, 2011

Sacred Proverb 

How people in Ghost of Yōtei talk.

Atsu: "A tiger forced up the mountain still bears teeth, and will return twice as strong."
Me: Another Sacred Proverb bro. 😹

Sacred Proverb by testtwo October 4, 2025

Proverbial "She" 

The unknown subject of the declarative statement, "That's what she said!"

Andy: Where's Norman?

Richard: Asleep.

Andy: Still?

Richard: Yeah, he can't get up.

Andy: That's what she said!

Richard: Who is this proverbial "she"?

Proverbial "She" by Soleijhee December 1, 2009