Culture and Ethnicity in Idioms and Proverbs
Culture and Ethnicity in Idioms and Proverbs

Summary/Abstract: "While you’re trying to get over the bitter-sweet ups and downs of calf love or puppy love, however early in life, you usually find out for yourself that the forbidden fruit is most tempting or that two’s company, three’s a crowd. When you are in love, affection is said to blind reason. In other words, love is blind and although beauty is only skin deep, it is in the eye of the beholder, since man makes beautiful what he loves. That’s why if Jack’s in love, he’s no judge of Jill’s beauty. As a matter of fact, the course of true love never did run smooth. We may accept that love makes the world go round (in neck to neck competition with money), conquers all and makes all hearts gentle, but a faint heart never won a fair lady. On the other hand, if she has her cap set for him and knows that the way to a man’s heart is through his belly, she will probably go to any lengths to have him, since all’s fair in love and war. But be careful with one-night stands: short love brings a long sigh. And although time heals all wounds, it’s better to encounter someone only like ships that pass in the night, as things get more complicated when the woman loved not wisely but too well and has a bun in the oven but no-one to make an honest woman of her. However, the man who is bold enough to love and leave should not forget that the greatest hate springs from the greatest love and hell has no fury like a woman scorned...[...]"

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