Or one from Morocco:
"Just because your father is a potter doesn't mean you have to break jugs."
mark wrote:
> Oh, I loved that. Reminds me of the proverb:
>
> "The wolf knows what the ill beast thinks and where he hides."
>
> Get ready for the next.
> Mark
>
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> Subject: Let's get proverbial! [Was "Language, ah language is barry"]
>
> > Reminds me of a Yoruba proverb about "what the trees say when the
> > axe comes into the forest: 'Remember, the handle is one of us.'"
> >
> > Candice
> >
> >
> > Joe Duemer wrote:
> >
> > <This reminds me of Wittgenstein's remark (in _Culture & Value_?)
> > that if a lion could speak we wouldn't be able to understand him.>
> >
> > Susanne Massey wrote:
> >
> > <There is a funny proverb which possibly relates to what you just
> > said: "It is silly to act as a "Neapolitan" when in the company of
> > real Neapolitans". Anyhow, I never came across one of them...>
> >
> > Mark Weiss wrote:
> >
> > <What's the old saying, that "a language is a dialect with an army"?>
> >
> >
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