“A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.”
—R. Buckminster Fuller
“A proverb is … few words.”
It is the distillation part—the extraordinary degree of compression of experience—that is most important, not the “few words” part.
“A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.”
—R. Buckminster Fuller
“A proverb is … few words.”
It is the distillation part—the extraordinary degree of compression of experience—that is most important, not the “few words” part.