What is proverb?
Jul
01
A proverb is a short, generally known sentence of the folk which contains wisdom, truth, morals, and traditional views in a metaphorical, fixed and memorizable form and which is handed down from generation to generation.
—Mieder 1985:119; also in Mieder 1993:24
While Sydney J. Harris defines proverb as'' a statement we enthusiastically embrace when we are unwilling to examine the particulars situation"
From these definition we can comprehend that proverbs is a mirror of the experience of other people.
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