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I have little experience of poetry but a big dictionary of proverbs: I hope this is attuned with what is being said: "Don't cut off your nose to spite your face." And again "He that would hang his dog, gives out first that he is mad". (The last one is a reference to excuses made for illegal or unworthy actions- could this proverb go back to the recent discussion about "poetry and madmen"?). Did that line of discussion already end? I was really impressed by its quality!!. Now, I am really enjoying the thread "Let's get proverbial" and hope to contribute effectively to its development, keeping my dictionary by the computer. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: Joseph Duemer <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 1:07 AM Subject: Re: Let's get proverbial > 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 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[log in to unmask]> > > To: <[log in to unmask]> > > Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2000 6:08 PM > > 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"?> > > > > > > > > -- > ________________________ > Joseph Duemer > School of Liberal Arts-5750 > Clarkson University > Potsdam NY 13699 > [log in to unmask] > ________________________ > > "Always come down from the barren heights > of cleverness into the green valleys of folly." > ::Wittgenstein > > > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%