The following are some proverbs collected from around the state by a professor at UVM and made into a book published in 1986. The title is, "Talk Less and Say More: Vermont Proverbs" and the author/compiler is Wolfgang Mieder.
A man does not look behind the door unless he has stood there himself.
Deeds are fruits, words are but leaves.
He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard gets moved by the foot.
It's nice to sit and think, but sometimes it's nicer just to sit.
It makes a difference whose cow is in the well.
Now that you've got a taste for it, here's the challenge: in a later post I will be sharing a proverb from this book having to do with personal disputes. I'm going to challenge you to try and come up with a plausible sounding proverb on that topic and e-mail it to me at tatefamilyvt@comcast.net. I'll include all the faux proverbs along with the original one and people can guess which one they think is the true one. So it's kind of like the game "dictionary" but with proverbs and played on a blog.
hope to hear from you
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