Proverbials!

Sayings about Singing Singing birds don't build nests. ~ Cameroonian Proverb Water quenches the thirst but does not teach you how to sing . ~ German Proverb When the Spaniard sings he is either stupid or without money. ~ Spanish Proverb When we sing everybody hears us, when we sigh nobody hears us. ~ Russian Proverb If you can walk you can dance. If you can talk you can sing . ~ Zimbabwean Proverb Not everyone who sings a lullaby stays awake. ~ Iranian Proverb It is folly to sing twice to a deaf man. ~ English Proverb As the abbot sings the sacristan responds. ~ Spanish Proverb Conversation shortens the distance, singing lightens the load. ~ Russian Proverb Drink and sing : the dark night is ahead of us. ~ Japanese Proverb When mosquitoes work, they bite and then they sing . ~ Malian Proverb Singing "Alleluia" everywhere does not prove piety. ~ Ethiopian Proverb Bad people don't sing . ~ Gypsy Proverb You can cage a bird but you ca...

Sayings about Opera Bed is the poor man's opera . ~ Italian Proverb My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing. ~ Renee Fleming An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience. ~ Joseph Addison Opera is a type of drama whose integral existence is determined from point to point and in the whole by musical articulation. Dramma per musica. ~ Joseph Kerman To sing opera , one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion. ~ Andrea Bocelli [ Opera ] does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths. ~ George Mare The aim of Opera has ever been, and still is today, confined to Music. Merely so as to afford Music with a colourable pretext for her own excursions, is the purpose of Drama drag...

Sayings about Songs The nightingale will run out of songs before a woman runs out of conversation. ~ Spanish Proverb Whose bread I eat, his song I sing. ~ German Proverb Even the best song becomes tiresome if heard too often. ~ Korean Proverb A bird does not sing because he has the answer to something, he sings because he has a song . ~ Chinese Proverb The bear knows seven songs and they are all about honey. ~ Turkish Proverb Worms don't like the robin's song . ~ Native American Proverb Dead song - birds make a sad meal. ~ Chinese Proverb The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at midsummer, and then goes away. ~ Traditional Proverb I sing the song of the person whose bread I eat. ~ French Proverb The fool sings a love song to his wife, the wise man will talk about his dog. ~ Turkish Proverb Spread the word of a Psalm and it becomes a popular song . ~ Myanmar Proverb You can catch a cricket in your hand but its song ...