Timeline for Is there any proverb or idiom that conveys "the world is bound to no man"?
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| Jul 21, 2015 at 22:56 | vote | accept | Soudabeh | ||
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| Jul 4, 2015 at 20:21 | comment | added | Soudabeh | @ Margana ! That Jewish proverb has been mentioned in this book,too: Sayings Usual and Unusual By R. Dale, page 279, see this,too : oaks.nvg.org/jewish.html | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 20:15 | comment | added | Soudabeh | ! , No, if this prover makes sense in English, I think it would be appropriate and would solve my problem!:) | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 20:11 | comment | added | Margana | Do you need an actual, existing proverb in English, Soudabeh? If you use that Jewish proverb (which seems to be a very good interpretation of the Persian) often enough, it will become an English proverb. In fact, I think I'll start using it myself as soon as I can. It certainly sounds perfectly English, with a hint of mediaeval feudal slavery (being bound). A last reference: the mediaeval poem Worldes Blis. . (Scroll down the page; there's a translation. | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 20:03 | history | edited | Margana | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 4, 2015 at 20:03 | comment | added | Soudabeh | Thanks @Margana! Good answer! +1, so do you think that that Jewish proverb would be appropriate for being considered as a version of that Persian saying? :) | |
| Jul 4, 2015 at 19:58 | history | answered | Margana | CC BY-SA 3.0 |