tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post114087128445280398..comments2024-01-26T10:20:37.836+00:00Comments on Diary of a Goldfish: Proverbs I wish to exterminateThe Goldfishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1145015776491508772006-04-14T12:56:00.000+01:002006-04-14T12:56:00.000+01:00I have been following a site now for almost 2 year...I have been following a site now for almost 2 years and I have found it to be both reliable and profitable. They post daily and their stock trades have been beating<BR/>the indexes easily.<BR/><BR/>Take a look at Wallstreetwinnersonline.com<BR/><BR/>RickJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1140973095504929292006-02-26T16:58:00.000+00:002006-02-26T16:58:00.000+00:00I don't take it as a threat, more as a simple stat...I don't take it as a threat, more as a simple statement of fact, applying to good and ill both.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1140960791909963832006-02-26T13:33:00.000+00:002006-02-26T13:33:00.000+00:00I like "Very small animals will also produce a big...I like "Very small animals will also produce a big heap of dung" - how is that said in German?<BR/><BR/>Not so keen on "What goes around comes around." but I guess too often I've heard that as some sort of threat as opposed to the positive message it ought to carry.The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1140950567378357762006-02-26T10:42:00.000+00:002006-02-26T10:42:00.000+00:00I am a great believer in the American proverb "Wha...I am a great believer in the American proverb "What goes around comes around".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1140946054593283642006-02-26T09:27:00.000+00:002006-02-26T09:27:00.000+00:00It is very interesting to compare proverbs of diff...It is very interesting to compare proverbs of different countries. Sometimes they are very similar, but sometimes there are big differences. But the topics they relate to, seem to be the same in lots of countries.<BR/>In Germany we also have "Blood is thicker than water" and "You are what you eat". they are both rubbish, I think.<BR/> "Many a mickle makes a muckle" in German is "Very small animals will also produce a big heap of dung"<BR/>Another German proverb says that "the farmer does not eat what he does not know" A saying that can either be taken literally for those people who are very peckish with their food, but also means that someone is reluctant to learn new things. In that case it is a bit unfair to farmers, I think....<BR/>Another proverb I can see some truth in, at least when it comes to all kind of social abilities is the German saying: "What little Hans does not learn, big Hans won't know!"<BR/>And last, but not least: "a hen-pecked husband" in Germany is a "Slippers heroe" .BloggingMonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17767164739217269193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1140899471506877102006-02-25T20:31:00.000+00:002006-02-25T20:31:00.000+00:00Imfunnytoo, I like your flies with the honey too. ...Imfunnytoo, I like your flies with the honey too. There are a few great proverbs like that. :-)<BR/><BR/>Vaughan, hmm, many a mickle makes a muckle... <BR/><BR/>Well this is, as you probably know, a popular 18th century corruption of "Many a little makes a mickle" - mickle meaning <I>many</I>. How it got to many a muckle making a mickle I don't know, but it is a Scots expression and they can't pronounce anything properly. <BR/><BR/>It means that for example, if you wrote a little thing, say a few hundred words and did it a good few times a week for, say, five years, than that little thing would amount to a tremendous volume of work and a great gift to anyone who knows where it is.<BR/><BR/>But merely modify your metatags and make me muddle manually through multiple marvellous if not magniloquent memoirs for the masterpiece I had in mind, then that makes for one majorly massive, nay <I>mammoth</I> mega-muckle if ever I met one. <BR/><BR/>Although usually this proverb is used in the context of money as in <I>Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves</I>.The Goldfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15213378454070776331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1140889667778779572006-02-25T17:47:00.000+00:002006-02-25T17:47:00.000+00:00This Diary of a Goldfish reader would like a Goldf...This Diary of a Goldfish reader would like a Goldfishian analysis of 'many a mickle makes a muckle', please.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10557263.post-1140883215938797292006-02-25T16:00:00.000+00:002006-02-25T16:00:00.000+00:00Thank you so much for pointing out the flaws in th...Thank you so much for pointing out the flaws in these things...particularly the disturbing trend of moralizing about food. <BR/><BR/>One of my favorite comedians came out and proposed the shocking idea that our relatives, particularly parents, don't automatically deserve respect because they are parents...that they should actually have to earn it. <BR/><BR/><BR/>In the spirit of contrariness...:) I have one proverb that I believe should be held onto...I believe that:<BR/><BR/>"You can catch more flies with honey than you can with vinegar."<BR/><BR/>boiled down to it's basics it simply means: "Look, don't be a nasty jerk, at work, at home or in relationships. You'll achieve more of what you want that way."imfunnytoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12942406430628029505noreply@blogger.com