Re: proverbs?

Quoting Heather Rice <florarroz@...>:

> Are there languages that have proverbs?  Has anyone
> developed a system of proverbs for their conlang?
(At first I was expecting a post about [prAvr=bz], not
[proUvr=bz], hence: <pro-verbs>.)

English is one.  Take the following examples:

  A: John always gets himself into so much trouble!
  B: He does, indeed.

It might be argued that there's a chain of transformations
going on here from "he Xs" to "he does X" to "he does", but
I suspect that might be purely diachronic.

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Thomas Wier <trwier@...>

"If a man demands justice, not merely as an abstract concept,
but in setting up the life of a society, and if he holds, further,
that within that society (however defined) all men have equal rights,
then the odds are that his views, sooner rather than later, are going
to set something or someone on fire." Peter Green, in _From Alexander
to Actium_, on Spartan king Cleomenes III

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