Week One – Proverbs WebQuest Part One – Required for ALL
Proverbs – What they mean to me
A Brief WebQuest
During, and as a result of, this WebQuest you will:
- Phase 1 – Research
- learn about proverbs, how they work, and their cultural significance.
- learn the difference between proverbs and clichés.
- share, study, and interpret proverbs. (post questions about specific proverbs if you like)
- Phase 2 – Post to thread
- find a proverb that rings true for you and explain its significance.
In order to be as informed as possible, you should like (this is a strong suggestion) to take a look at the following two documents (I’d print them if I were you): Proverb Definitions, and Common Proverbs.
Here we go . . .
Proverbs – Phase 1
Research
First off, what are proverbs? Proverbs are brief adages that speak truths.
Traditional proverbs are meant to convey cultural knowledge and wisdom, and are often closely tied to a culture’s values and everyday experience. Sometimes their meanings are not always readily apparent to us today. Some common proverbs that speak truths are:
- Out of the frying pan and into the fire!
- A stitch in time saves nine!
- Look before you leap!
- Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
In The Book Without Words by Avi, Odo in particular is given to saying proverbs at appropriate, and sometimes very inappropriate, times. Alfric, too, offers the occasional well-timed proverb as he becomes more at home.
Some of the proverbs found in the book are:
- “A fool is the first to think himself wise and the last to know it isn’t so.” -Odo (Ch 2:1)
- “The lengthier the life, the more locked the lip.” -Odo (Ch 2:9)
- “Death is part of life.” -Odo (Ch 3:11)
- “Live long enough and all become orphans.” -Odo (Ch 3:11)
- “. . . the shorter the sermon, the longer the truth.” -Alfric (Ch 3:11)
- “. . . time is like an oxcart wheel – that it has no end or beginning but only rolls.” -Alfric (Ch 3:1 8)
- “A sniff of gold makes all noses sneeze.” -Odo (Ch 3:1 8)
- “A life unlived is like a book without words.” -Preamble
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Explore the richness of proverbs by visiting the following web resource sites. You do not need to visit all of them. You are looking for a proverb that you identify with, that you can say rings true for you. Go ahead look around. Do this now.
Web Resources – By clicking these links you will be leaving Mr. Moshé’s blog. Mr. Moshé can not be responsible for the content or functionality of websites outside of his domain. Whether he likes it or not, there are some things he can not control.
- What Do You Think Ben Meant?
http://www.fi.edu/franklin/printer/abc.html- The Franklin Institute provides this list of A to Z proverbs from Benjamin Franklin.
- Insects: Proverbs, Quotes, Sayings
http://www.bijlmakers.com/entomology/proverbs_insects_2.htm- Includes proverbs about insects collected from around the world. A good site for students to find proverbs.
- Proverbs by Country of Origin
http://www.famous-quotations.com/asp/origins.asp- A large collection of proverbs from around the world. A good site for students to find proverbs, though the site contains some ads.
- Proverbs from 300 Countries and Cultures
http://creativeproverbs.com/- Collection of proverbs. Search from 12,000 proverbs from 300 countries and cultures or browse from over 1,500 from 100 countries and cultures. The site contains some advertisements.
- CogWeb’s Proverb Resources
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Discourse/Proverbs/index.html- Proverbs from around the world and links to external collections. Includes links to proverb journals, articles, and reference materials. Good for both students and teachers.
- Proverbs: More Than Words Say
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/views/proverbs/index.html- Short Peace Corps collection of proverbs from around the world. Locations of origin and meaning/context provided. Provides suggestions for teaching with proverbs.
- Proverbial Wisdom
http://www.theotherpages.org/quote-05.html- A collection of 600+ proverbs from around the world, listed alphabetically.
Proverbs – Phase 2
Post to this thread
Use the Web resources listed above (and the novel The Book Without Words) to look for proverbs you like, proverbs that resonate with you. Find a proverb that means something for you.
Post to this thread about a time, an occasion, an event in which that proverb rang true.
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Cruz and Duff (1996) argue that working with proverbs in the classroom can improve students’ learning experiences, their language skills, and their understanding of themselves and the world. This happens because:
- Proverbs provide an opportunity for students to be knowledgeable experts as well as learners.
- Proverbs provide an opportunity for students to learn about each other and their shared values.
- Proverbs provide an opportunity for students to gain insight as they discuss their experiences and work out their understanding of proverb meanings.
- Proverbs provide an opportunity for students to use their home culture as a stepping stone into school culture.
- Proverbs provide an opportunity to improve thinking and writing as students both provide and receive information.
Cruz, Mary Carmen, and Ogle Burks Duff. 1996. “New Words, Old Wisdom.” English Journal 86 (November): 116–118.
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This webQuest has been adapted from the Discussion Guide for The Book Without Words by Avi designed by Hyperion Books and the ReadWriteThink Lesson on Proverbs
Go often to the house of a friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
* Scandanavian Proverb
-This proverb means spend time with your friends, if you don’t they may soon go away
-This has to do with me because I once had a best firend and when I moved we lost touch and now I’m lucky if I will ever talk to her again.
The proverb I chose is “Do not push the river, it will flow by itself”
For me this means dont push someone to do something, think something, or act a certain way because everyone does things at their own pace, everyone has opinions, and everyone has a right to be themselves; not who a person wants them to be.
For me this is true because I’ve always felt that I wasn’t good enough. That no matter how hard I try I will never be good enough.After a while I was sick of it and I decided not to care what anybody else though. I didn’t want to be who people wanted me to be, I wanted to be who I wanted to be. I wanted to walk on the path I make, not the one that was laid out for me.I would try to get into more detail but a)I don’t know how else to word it and b)my mind is drawing a blank
Well I’ve got to go ladies and gentlemen Happy Halloween and good night
-Maddie
My proverb I found that I like and has something to do with me is: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won’t bother you for weeks.”
This proverb basically means if you give somebody something they will just keep depending on you to do it, but if you teach them how to do it they will depend on themselves.
This has to do with me because everyday I have to teach my brother how to write. Sometimes he asks me how to write a letter, I could write it for him but instead I write it another piece of paper and let him try and copy it himself. Then it turns out to be a great letter.
This relates to me because a very close friend died in a way some what like this his was told if he goes to his brothers funeral he would not return. But he still went because of how much he loved him. He died there because they didn’t have proper medical service.
My proverb is”an open enemy is better than a false friend”a Greek proverb. it means to me that an enemy that is up front, and you know for sure is an enemy is better than those who hide there true colours,and depise you in seceret. Because with those that are true you prepare yourself and avoid doing or saying certian things with them. But with a false friend you are more opened and trusting of the person ,when that person is really not as trust worthy as you think.
This relates to me with one of my Ex friends. Though I only new her for the year, i was opened to her and thought she was the same. Me and my best friend saw her alone and was willing to share our freind ship.We were all good friend when at best freinds little sisters party my purse gose missing.One of my good freind said she was the only preson he say in the room with the stuff in by herself. Now everybody there exept for two people are good friends i have none since reseption ecept for two people. this girl and another. everybody was like she did it, she did it. till this day i don’t if she took it our not for sure ,but my heart knows it was hers. know i became her enemy. unlike her i let her know how i really feel, we are not friends ,ain’t ever been,freinds don’t take a dump on each other the way she did. now i know she an enemy i treat her like one ,still keep her close eye on her, buy not a close relationship.
The proverb I chose is “The best things in life are free.” what this means is that all the good thing in live are free.
For me this is true because you can’t buy friendship, love and happiness. I have great friends that I can go to for anything. I have a wonderful family that love me very much. Without my family and my friends I wouldn’t be happy.
This discussion is closed for grades. If you want to try to submit to this discussion, you’ll have to do it on paper and turn it in to me in class. Awesome stuff.
“The buzzing of flies does not turn them into bees.”
The proverb simply means that one can change their appearance or their friends on the outside, but one cannot change who they are inside. Their personality–everything will always be written in stone and there forever and ever. It’s fairly basic.
This applies to be greatly at the present time. If anyone has noticed, and I’m sure many have, my appearance has changed from completely “normal” to completely “punk.” I’ve even heard one person tell me that I’ve “gone to the dark side.” However, I will argue that I have not changed on the inside at all. It’s all just still me, but people are noticing my “Darth Vadorness,” as I call it, which means that I snap at people sometimes and I seem very irritable, more than usual because I’m dressing differently. I still hang out with the same friends, I still enjoy reading a thesaurus in my free time, and I’ve always been antisocial. I’m not acting differently. I may be buzzing like a bee, but I’m still the same old fly I was before. I believe that others need to understand this proverb a lot, for my sake anyway.
NOTE: I’m doing another because I feel the need to write.
“A life unlived is like a book without words.”
This one means that if you live your life without doing atleast something out of the box, you’ll have no memories or no stories to tell about it. Your life, being compared to a book, won’t make an impact on the world because the rest of us can’t read it–it has no words.
It could also mean that by going your life unlived, you are letting other people chose your path for you. After all, isn’t it the author of the book who writes it? How can you write your life, or book, if other people are living it for you?
My book that I have written and the life I have lived thus far is full of words, thank you.
NOTE: Sorry, I’m doing another. I’m one of those people who won’t go away when their opinion is trying to push through.
“Hunger never saw bad bread.”
It has the same meaning as “Beggars can’t be choosers.” In my mind it does, anyway. If you’re desperate for something and you just have to have it, chances are that you’re going to take whatever’s available. If you’re in a predicament–like hunger, for example–food becomes food. If you’re out of a job and terribly poor, all the jobs in the world, from the worst ones to the best, become equal. Be thankful for what you get.
I remember one situation in my life when that proverb…. kind of ran though it. I remember talking to my mother about my future career and what I would like my first job to be. I believe I told her that I wouldn’t want to work at a grocery store or something along those lines, and she replied, “A job’s a job. You will get what you can get.” And that’s… the end of my small tale.
The proverb I choose is :opprotunities, like eggs, come one at a time.
What this means to me is that every opprotunity given to you is special, but they don’t come very quickly they come one at a time, so you must take them while you can and very seriously because they can go away from you in a blink of an eye.
This proverb applies to me because I have had many opprotunities that I could of taken, but I didn’t and it affected me greatly. This taught me to make the most of these opprotunities that come one at a time because they could be your last.
THE PROVERB i CHOOSE iS “ONE TODAY iS WORTH TWO TOMORROWS”
TO ME, THiS PROVERB MEANS YOU SHOULD LiVE EVERYDAY TO THE FULLEST. NEVER TAKE AND DAY FOR GRANTED BECAUSE iT VERY WELL COULD BE YOUR LAST. TO SEE TOMORROW iS A PRiViLAGE THAT MOST TAKE FOR GRANTED.
THiS PROVERB AFFECTS ME BECAUSE i HAVE SEEN FiRST HAND HOW PEOPLE CAN BE HERE ONE DAY, AND GONE THE NEXT. YOU SHOULD TAKE TODAY FOR GRANTED AND BE THANKFUL FOR EVERYDAY THAT YOU HAVE. TOMORROW iS NEVER PROMiSED SO LiVE iT UP =)
The proverb I chose was “Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow”
The proverb means that you have to do what you know you have to, or else it piles up and makes the task seem bigger and will never be able to be finished. If you don’t do something you’re supposed to (and you have a guilty conscience), it causes you to think about the consequences of not doing whatever it was, thus making you even more frightened. Then instead of thinking it over and doing it, you will be so struck with fear and worry that you won’t want to do it anymore.
To me this proverb is…special. I can relate to this proverb because there are times, for example, when I don’t want to do my homework on the weekends (math, Mr. Moshe’s blogs, etc.), so I procrastinate. As the days go by, I know I’m supposed to do it (which might just be called “being lazy” from another point of view) but I don’t. Then, the day before it’s due, I have a small amount of papers before me but I’m nervously biting my nails. I may have had only a little bit to do, but I waited until the last minute and allowed myself to think negatively about the consequences, thus increasing the amount of worrying I am going through. The point I am trying to make is: small things causing fret are seen as big things in your point of view.
The American proverb I chose was
“Each day provides its own gifts”.
This means that everyday is special. For example the people who come into your life the things you accomplish, the people you meet are all gifts that come everyday.Whether they are just getting an A on your test or kicking the winning goal in soccer.Each day is a suprise that you should be thankful for.
This proverb affects me because I learned that in life even the little things that happen everyday are a gift to you. Such as having a good hair day or wearing a cute outfit. I’ve also learned that the little things in life can make you happy, and everyday is a new experience:)…
Judline I really like your proverb. It is sooo true, I think everyone should evaluate themselves before talking about someone else. Some people just do or say certain things just to either get attention, get someone to like them, or just because they are insecure about themselves, like you said. I strongly believe your belief about what this proverb stands for. Im not even going to lie, I sometimes talk about other people myself, but when I do it, I speak the truth. I guess you can I am sometimes “brutally honest”, but yea I know that still doesnt make it right. Now, that I’ve read your proverb I am going to double think about what I say about ceratin people.
The proverb that I chose was: “Unite To Move Foward” ((Hawaiian))
*This proverb means that if you work together as a team you will excel foward and make great progress.
*I chose this proverb because I can truely relate to this…especially since I am a basketball player. Playing basketball means soooo much to me, as most of you probably already know. Everytime before a game, my coach gives the team a little chalk talk and he always says ” Just play as a team, and everything will fall into place.” I absolutely stand for what my coach says and what the proverb means.
*For example, this weekend I has a basketball tournmant in Boca Raton. (This is with my travel team.) We had a game on Friday, and we won. We had two games on Saturday, and we won both, and we also had two games on Sunday……we won the first but lost the second one, which was the CHAMPIONSHIP game, by one point! We made it to the championship game because we worked together and played as a team, like we always do. If there were a bunch of selfish players on the team, then we wouldnt have gotten anywhere. To sum it all up, working together as a team will bring you to great success!
“Until I left the school in seven-grade, I was down and things were not going good for me.” That’s what I meant.
I found two Polish proverbs that rang true to me:
*If you love him, don’t lend him.
*Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears.
1)If you love him, don’t lend him.-I think that this means that if you love someone, don’t let them slip right through your fingers. This proverb relates to me because there are times where I love someone, and I let them just slip right through my fingers and I don’t do anything about it.
2)Love enters a man through his eyes, woman through her ears.-I think this means that a guy likes a girl for what he sees (her looks and personality), but a girl likes a guy for what she hears (what he says to not only her, but other people as well). This relates to me because I was once in a relationship where he might have liked what he was seeing in me, but I didn’t like what I was hearing (which was NOTHING) (he never talked to me), so I broke up with him.
Sorry MR.Moshe i made a mistake with my post heres me real one.
The proverb I choose was-The Doors of wisdom are never shut.
This means that knowledge is out their and never give up because no matter what happens knowledge will never go away or seize to exist.And if you give up or stop trying, you could go back at a later time and try again. The doors are referring to paths you can take to fulfill your dreams they, can mean paths to your new life. But whatever they mean they are all ways open to you so never give up keep on trying.
When i was little i really hated math becuase i never got it.So every time we took a test in math i would just write down any answer that first came to my mind.But soon my teacher noticed my grades for good in all other subjects but math so the she put me in a math group which sooned helped my greatly.This is why i choose the Doors of wisdom are never shut because you could qiut or stop trying but you can go back and learn or do what u wanted to do.
The proverb I choose was-The Doors of wisdom are never shut
This means that knowledge is out their and never give up because no matter what happens knowledge will never go away or seize to exist.And if you give up or stop trying, you could go back at a later time and try again. The doors are referring to paths you can take to fulfill your dreams they, can mean paths to your new life. But whatever they mean they are all ways open to you so never give up keep on trying.
THE BUTTERFLY OFTEN FORGETS iT 0NCE WAS A CATERPiLLAR.
i PiCK THiS PROVERB BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH iT DOESNT HAVE TO DO WiTH MY LiFE iTS TRUE.FOR EXAMPLE, iF YOU WERE 0NCE POOR AND YOU TURN RiCH MOST OF THE PEOPLE FORGET ABOUT THEiR BACKGROUND AND WERE THEY CAME FROM, AND ABOUT THEiR OLD AND TRUE FRiENDS JUST BECAUSE THEiR NOT POOR ANYMORE, AND THEY JUST DECiDED TO FORGET ABOUT THEiR PAST.
Every garden may have some weeds is the proverb I chose because it represents all aspects of life, no matter how great a society or any good thing may seem to be there will always be the theives, murderers, etc etc or if it were your birthday even and you were having a great time celebrating you know deep in your mind even if you do not aknowledge it you are slowly dying as are the people you love around you.
“The best things in life are free.”
This proverb means that money can’t buy the most important things in life.
This is true for me. The important things that money can’t buy include friendship, love, and happiness. I like my life. I have great friends and a family that loves me. When I have a problem, for example, I can always turn to my friends and family to help me deal with it. Money can’t fix your troubles. Even if you don’t have money, friendship, love, and happiness will make your life worth living.
The proverb I choose was-“Fall seven times and get up eight “-Japanese.
Its like “Try Try and Try again”, if some people gave up our world as we know today would not exist. Like Einstein,Rosa Parks, Luther king jr, and Thomas Edision ( just to name a few ).
It affects me becasue frankly I am not so good in math so when I have math homework I don’t understand most of the time I will just quit, but if I keep on trying I will get better someday.
An ill workman always blames his tools.
English Proverb
I see this proverb acted out by so many people daily that I HAD to use it. Often, when things go wrong, people tend to blame anything and everything but themselves. Whether they believe themselves incapable of any blunder whatsoever or they just don’t think it’s their fault, it rings true for most human beings. For example, when my dad was painting my room during the summer and accidentally painted the window, it was the fault of the brush, the paint, the glare of the sun, everything besides him. When my cousin received a low grade on her report card, she claimed the teacher didn’t like her and didn’t take enough grades. It never occured to my cousin that her grade was earned through her own laziness and lack of self-control. So, as you can see, the proverb that I chose is one that we see everyday.
Do not make an elephant out of a fly-Russian proverb
this proverb means that if there is a small problem, dont make act as if it is the end of the world. just deal with or solve the issue and it will be over as fast as it started.
This proveb relates to me because my cousin will ALWAYS make things look worse than they appear. Lets say if his pencil broke in school he wouldnt ask to borrow one, but he would freak out not no what to do and make the problem a lot worse than it is.
“Love is like a butterfly, hold it to tight it will crush, hold it to loose, it will fly.”
I think this proverb is cute…it means exactly what it says, love is like a butterfly. It can get cruched it held to tight, and when held loose it can fly away.
CRiNA—
I really like your proverb thing and how you explained it…I think your proverb can actually relate to evryone!!! Good Job!!! =]
The proverb i choose was A single arrow is easily broken, but not ten in a bundle.
* This proverb means to me that one can easily be destoryed but when with a group it would be harder to break them down. Lets say for example a zebra. One zebra alone will be easily preyed upon, but with a group of zebras it would be harder for the carnivore to try to feast on them.
* This proverb relates to me in sports. When working together in a team you have a better chance of winning then playing alone
THE PROVERB I CHOSE WAS “REVENGE IS A CONFESSION OF PAIN”
TO ME THIS PROVERB MEANS WHEN YOU TRY TO GET EVEN WITH SOMEONE YOU MAY SEEM HAPPY THAT YOUR RETALIATING BUT IT’S REALLY JUST A WAY TO SHOW YOU THAT THE SITUATION IS HURTING YOU OR CAUSING YOU GREAT SADNESS OR MIXED EMOTIONS. IF IT WASN’T THEN YOU WOULD BE GETTING REVENGE BACK ON THAT PERSON.
IT PERTAINS TO ME BECAUSE SOMETIMES WHEN MY “FRIENDS” DO SOMETHING TO ME THAT MAKES ME VERY ANGRY I FEEL THE NEED TO GET BACK AT THEM. BUT IN THE END I JUST KNOW THAT ITS MY WAY OF SHOWING THAT WHATS GOING ON IS HURTING ME.
The proverb I chose was Speak little,do much.
The meaning of this proverb to me is you dont say how good or great you are at a sport or at anything, you show them how good you are at it.This proverb pertains to my life because I play sports and alot of people talk how good they are, but not me I show them how I play.
Out of the frying pan, into the fire
Recognized Meaning: Going from a bad situation to one that is even worse.
Alternate Meaning: For a more flavorful meal, try grilling instead of frying.
Now, I know that mine doesn’t have as much of a deep meaning as others have, but I find this one having to do with me.
It pertains to me because it seems as though I am a never ending vicious circle of bad situations, it was bad before, but then something happened last year and it was way worse than anything else that happened, but now I learned to deal with them step by step, and I believe I will be just fine in the long run once I get my life on the right track. :]
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who never asks is a fool forever.”
Chinese Proverb
To me, this means: You may seem foolish or feel like a stupid person if you ask a question, but time will pass and people will forget. However, if you don’t ask, you will never learn anything and that is what makes you the biggest fool, no matter how much time has passed.
This is true because if you don’t ask questions on things you don’t understand, you won’t learn. This rang true to me because I hated asking questions in front of the whole class in elementary school. One day, there was a question that I didn’t understand, and we weren’t allowed to talk in class (so I couldn’t ask my friends). As a result, I had to ask my teacher. It wasn’t the end of the world for me, and it didn’t turn out as bad as I thought it would.
I’ve read alot of proverbs, but i really like this one:
“Hunger never saw bad bread”
I really like this one because i think it really makes sense. It means to me don’t be picky. And who ever wrote this used bad bread and hunger as an example, because what u may see as a bad peice of bread, another person, who can’t eat for some reason(money,or other) will see that bad peice of bread as a delicious feast and appreciate it more than u because u can eat at anytime.”Hunger never saw bad bread” because hunger ate whatever they could.
The proverb i chose is “Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead.”
The meaning of this proverb to me is that only tell the secrets you have with the people closest to you. Any other person would just tell someone else. This is true everywhere in life so that’s why I chose it.
Proverb
“Hunger Never Saw Bad Bread”
Definition: When your straving theres no time to make a fuss/ be picky. You eat what you are given gratefully.
When I was a child i hated tap water/since water. I thought the taste was repelling. ( since city water has added chemicals and what not, such as florine.)
My mother agreed and sent me to school with a bottle of purified water everyday. One day I forgot my water. And my mouth felt dryer than the Sahara. But I refused to drink the tap water untill I could take it no longer. I finally drank from the fountain. I was so thristy i drank greedily. But the point is i didn’t taste anything funny!
my proverb is All cats are grey in the dark.
To me this means physical appearances are not important.
And I found a meaning online that said this although there appear to be differences on the outside, the nature of humans is basically similar.
I belive this relates to everyone because every where you go people with judge you just by how you look. Every day i go through this.
(Live your own life, for you will die your own death)
I think this proverb means that if you don’t take chances you’ll never have fun. Also, I think it means that you should be able to make your own choices and not let someone else make them for you.The choices you let other people make for you will not effect there life but rather yours.
I can relate to this proverb because every day my parents tell me what to do. I can understand there only looking out for my well being but after awile it gets a bit exessive. I should be able to choose the friends I have and the things I do.
Mr. Moshe I’m sorry for the inconvience but I didn’t mean to type an open enemy is better than a false friend.That was just another proverb I was interested in.
An open enemy is better than a false friend
You may delay, but time will not.
The proverb I chose is “you may delay but time will not.” To me its basically saying even though you may procrasinate and put off to do things time with keep going.Meaning we as humans can put off doing something but time will not wait or stop for us.I really like proverb because I tend to procrasinate alot and it reminds me to get up and do whatever it is that I might need to do. For example, doing my homework (Mr.Moshe’s blogs),or simply washing the dishes(speaking of…).For many things there are due dates and we can put off something as long as we want but eventually the time is going to come and pass and either your going to have it done or not but time will not wait for you.
The Proverb I Chose Is “If you desire many things, many things will be seem but a few.”
This Means To Me: If U Keep Expecting So Many Things.Waht You Get Will Never Be Enough
I Chose This Because I Have A Problem With Appreciating Everything I Have And I Keep Wanting More Material Things And what I Have Now Never Seems Enough
The proverb that I happen to choose is:Speak little, do more.
-Benjamin Franklin
This, to me, means that people should not speak much of the time, and not do what they say, but instead, they should take action, and do what they are saying. And this wise saying also means, to me, that people shouldn’t talk at all, but let their actions speak for them.
This proverb applies to me because their have been many occurrences where I have spoken something, and not carry it out. So after reading this, I should now do what I say, or just not say anything at all.
“Believe only half of what you see and nothing of what you hear”
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*This proverb means that you should not believe what you hear. you know like rumors and stuff . Although when you do see something happen you don’t you cant just take what you saw and believe everything about it either because you don’t know the whole story.
*this proverb has proven true mostly at school. Everyone loves hearing rumors, starting rumors, or spreading rumors. We say things without going right to the person to see i9f its true then all the details gets mixed up and someones business is all out there and its probably not true. Also when some sees somthig or over hears some one talking they go and tell someone with out kniowing all the details.
THE PROVERB I LIKE IS: “Speak little, do much!”
(Yes I stole this from Kyle but can’t we all just be friend’s? Show some of that brotherly love! anyway I got a different meaning than him)
I think it means basicaly to shut up your mouth and do the work you need to do. In other terms….. when you have something to do don’t talk about it and make false promises to yourself that you will do it, just get up and do it! ( I had a “VERB” “its what you do!” moment) That is something I need to work on because when I have big task I find myself talking about it more than I actually do the thing. I would say that is one of the things that I need to work on. I think I will work on it later though.( like around “sleep time”)
“The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell,” is an American proverb. Basically, if anyone wrote a book, with all the sins they commited, it would be a best seller. Why? Because we (humans) are always longing to listen and produce gossip, especially when they are based on other people’s faults. What it means to me, is that we all are imperfect, so why do we enjoy talking about others imperfections?
“The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell,” is an American proverb. Basically, if anyone wrote a book, with all the sins they commited, it would be a best seller. Why? Because we (humans) are always longing to listen and produce gossip, especially when they are based on other people’s faults. We all are imperfect, so why do we enjoy talking about others imperfections?