Proverbs and sayings prove significantly similar, in the sense that their content and meaning are universal. Americans do not shy themselves on being proverbial, as Benjamin Franklin, for example, wrote many of his own sayings into his Poor Richard’s Almanac. “Honesty is the best policy”, “a penny saved is a penny earned”, and countless others highlight these modern proverbs, and Sumerians as well wrote down numerous sayings of their own. “We are doomed to die, let us spend; we will live long, let us save”, “a restless woman in the house adds ache to pain” and others serve to remind modern man that we are not as different from our ancestors as previously thought (Kramer, pg.
Proverbs and sayings prove significantly similar, in the sense that their content and meaning are universal. Americans do not shy themselves on being proverbial, as Benjamin Franklin, for example, wrote many of his own sayings into his Poor Richard’s Almanac. “Honesty is the best policy”, “a penny saved is a penny earned”, and countless others highlight these modern proverbs, and Sumerians as well wrote down numerous sayings of their own. “We are doomed to die, let us spend; we will live long, let us save”, “a restless woman in the house adds ache to pain” and others serve to remind modern man that we are not as different from our ancestors as previously thought (Kramer, pg.