What is "proverbs"

Usage examples of "proverbs".

Those proverbs will bring thee to the gallows one day, I promise thee.

And I have got nothing else, nor any other stock in trade except proverbs and more proverbs.

God guide thee, Sancho, and govern thee in thy government, and deliver me from the misgiving I have that thou wilt turn the whole island upside down, a thing I might easily prevent by explaining to the duke what thou art and telling him that all that fat little person of thine is nothing else but a sack full of proverbs and sauciness.