There's a Jewish saying that I love.

What is your favorite proverb?

NA Well there is a saying that says, You fear what you don't know, and you hate what you fear.

There's an old African proverb that some of you know that says, If you want to go quickly, go alone if you want to go far, go together. We have to go far, quickly.

Plus ça change, as the French would say.

The saying is that with climate, those who know the most are the most worried.

It's simply a little saying these people say before their meal to remind them to stop eating when their stomach is 80 percent full.

There is an old African saying, that a boy becomes a man after he kills a lion.

They also have a 3,000 year old adage, which I think is the greatest sort of diet suggestion ever invented.

There's a saying that whatever true thing you can say about India, the opposite is also true.

It's called apropos of the Italian adage that I lifted from his forward, If This Be Treason.

Howard loves the Yiddish expression To a worm in horseradish, the world is horseradish.

Now, the Tewa Indians in the Southwest have a saying for what you need to do when you want to think long term about anything.

We all know of them, but nevertheless the Arabs say, The dogs may bark, but the caravan moves on.

On this occasion, an old saying comes to mind Health is the crown on the heads of the healthy that is seen only by the sick .

But there is a saying in my culture that if a bud leaves a tree without saying something, that bud is a young one.

It was something I read in an editorial by a woman who was talking about the war in Iraq. And she said, Save a man from drowning, you are responsible to him for life.

But electricity also will go in all directions the path of least resistance, which is where that phrase, in part, comes from.

Before asking for a new Windows PC this holiday season, remember the old adage Be careful about what you wish for.

The updated adage for the recent bull market is one big step down, then three little steps up, again and again, so far at least. No one is looking for a sudden surge, and volatility is reduced by the absence of sharp up movements.

The connection between ocean health and human health is actually based upon another couple simple adages, and I want to call that pinch a minnow, hurt a whale.

As the President of the Legion of Good Will addresses gender issues, it is frequently noted that his vision about the topic is the saying To value the Woman means to dignify the Man .

The summit, after all, is not the proverbial silver bullet but the launch of a process and the indication of the collective will for change.

I think we have an obligation as parents and a society to start teaching our kids to fish instead of giving them the fish the old parable If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day.

The six governments that are currently considering the next steps to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear bomb the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany should heed that advice. Otherwise, they could end up without any handle on the Iranian nuclear program, and only one useless option left, a military strike.

Translating that into today's African reality, it seems that we all have a lot of lions to deal with before maturity is reached and the future of Africa is secured.

Okay, so what this tells us is that, contrary to the old adage, monkey see, monkey do, the surprise really is that all of the other animals really cannot do that at least not very much.

But they can strive to shape a more cooperative future. As a Russian proverb succinctly puts it, Forget the past and lose an eye dwell on the past and lose both eyes.

NEW YORK There s many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, goes the old English proverb. Something seemingly resolved and certain in fact is neither.

And this is the time to do it not in spite of the financial crisis, but because of it. As the saying goes, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

Just as Europe and the US have made substantial progress in implementing effective health and environmental policies, China s quality control mechanisms can be improved.

Generals, it is said, always prepare to fight the last war an old jibe, but one that contains an element of truth. Indeed, flexibility does not come naturally to armed forces, with the result that the two decades since the end of the Cold War have seen only slow adaptation to the military s evolving roles.

Against this background, the central challenge for East Asia s major economies particularly Japan and South Korea is to resolve the historical issues that are preventing them from charting a more stable and prosperous future. As a Russian proverb warns, Forget the past and lose an eye dwell on the past and lose both eyes.

Moreover, not only was Zhen Xiaouyu executed, but Cao Wenzhuang, who was in charge of drug registration at the SFDA, was sentenced to death for accepting roughly 300,000 in bribes from drug manufacturers. Both verdicts were doubtless calculated, as a famous Chinese proverb puts it, to kill some chickens in order to scare the monkeys.

Indeed, a German proverb to the effect that trust is good, but control is better has been the basis of eurozone leaders policy since the developed world s debt crisis engulfed the single currency s system of governance. The implication is clear trust between the members of the eurozone cannot be taken for granted, but must be earned and maintained.

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Swedish (mother tongue), English, German and French (in that order).

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The biggest languages are German, Japanese, French all the Western European languages are quite big.

Working languages French and English

These are Punjabi 48 , Sindhi 12 , Siraiki (a Punjabi variant) 10 , Pashtu 8 , Balochi 3 , Hindko 2 , Brahui 1 , English and others 8 .

The dog doesn't speak English, or American, or Spanish, or French.