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A proverb is a simple and concrete saying popularly known and repeated.

Contents

• People
• Other uses
• See also

Proverb or Proverbs may also refer to:

• Adages in general
• Pro-verb, the pro-form of a verb
• The Book of Proverbs, a book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament

People

• Proverb Jacobs (1935–2016), American football offensive and defensive lineman
• Roy Proverbs (1932–2017), English professional soccer player
• Gordon Proverbs (born 1924), cricketer for Barbados from 1949 to 1955

Other uses

• Proverb (Reich), a musical composition

See also

Search for "proverb" , "pro-verb" , "proverbs" , or "proverb's" on Wikipedia.

• List of proverbs
• Anti-proverb, distortions of proverbs (adages)
• Proverbial name, a type of given name formation in some cultures of Africa
• Netherlandish Proverbs, a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
• All pages with titles beginning with Proverb
• All pages with titles containing Proverb

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