It’s a short road that has no length.Ĭhris O’Carroll The deepest ocean is shallow at the shoreline. No living creature is ever too old to age. It is better to scalp a cat than to swallow a lawnmower. Congratulations, all round.īrian Allgar A wise snake never attempts to play hopscotch. The winners below are rewarded with four pounds for each proverb printed. But perhaps he would have changed his mind if he’d seen the glorious nuggets of folk wisdom you’ve come up with. Lord Chesterfield warned his son that proverbial expressions are ‘the flowers of the rhetoric of the vulgar man’, and that ‘a man of fashion never has recourse to proverbs and vulgar aphorisms’. Renwick) ‘Never underestimate big numbers’ (Nigel Grigg) ‘It’s a weak proverb that hasn’t got something to say’ (John O’Byrne) ‘Even Adam and Eve were not forbidden to eat a pickled onion’ (Brian Murdoch) ‘Wit needs no disguise’ (Michael Jones) ‘A cauliflower is a vegetable but a sweet pea is not’ (Alanna Blake). Prince) ‘A circular argument cannot be broken’ (Barry Baldwin) ‘People in glass houses should put their kaftans on’ (Tessa Maude) ‘Never play chess with snooker balls’ (Dr J.D. The following competitors deserve an honourable mention: ‘The shallow puddle floods no meadows’ (D.A. I tried to weed out those submissions (some of them very amusing) that did express a clearly discernible deeper truth, but some may have slipped through the net. The best entries contain just the promise of a profound meaning - but frustrate the reader’s attempt to work out exactly what it is.
It was a pleasure to judge, and cheering, too, to see lots of unfamiliar names in among the regulars.
The latest call, for proverbs that sound profound but have no meaning, attracted an enormous entry.
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