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Proverb A proverb (from ) is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience. They are often metaphorical. A proverb that describes a basic rule of conduct may also be known as a maxim. Proverbs fall into the category of formulaic language.
Proverb Another type of grammatical structure in proverbs is a short dialogue:
Proverb On the non-fiction side, proverbs have also been used by authors. Some have been used as the basis for book titles, e.g. "I Shop, Therefore I Am: Compulsive Buying and the Search for Self" by April Lane Benson. Some proverbs been used as the basis for article titles, "All our eggs in a broken basket: How the Human Terrain System is undermining sustainable military cultural competence." Proverbs have been noted as common in subtitles of articles such as "Discontinued intergenerational transmission of Czech in Texas: 'Hindsight is better than foresight'." Many authors have cited proverbs as epigrams at the beginning of their articles, e.g. "'If you want to dismantle a hedge, remove one thorn at a time' Somali proverb" in an article on peacemaking in Somalia. An article about research among the Māori used a Māori proverb as a title, then began the article with the Māori form of the proverb as an epigram "Set the overgrown bush alight and the new flax shoots will spring up", followed by three paragraphs about how the proverb served as a metaphor for the research and the present context.
Proverb Also, the following pair are counter proverbs from the Kasena of Ghana: "It is the patient person who will milk a barren cow" and "The person who would milk a barren cow must prepare for a kick on the forehead". The two contradict each other, whether they are used in an argument or not (though indeed they were used in an argument). But the same work contains an appendix with many examples of proverbs used in arguing for contrary positions, but proverbs that are not inherently contradictory, such as "One is better off with hope of a cow's return than news of its death" countered by "If you don't know a goat [before its death] you mock at its skin". Though this pair was used in a contradictory way in a conversation, they are not a set of "counter proverbs".
Proverb A film that makes rich use of proverbs is "Forrest Gump", known for both using and creating proverbs. Other studies of the use of proverbs in film include work by Kevin McKenna on the Russian film "Aleksandr Nevsky", Haase's study of an adaptation of Little Red Riding Hood, Elias Dominguez Barajas on the film "Viva Zapata!", and Aboneh Ashagrie on "The Athlete" (a movie in Amharic about Abebe Bikila).