(I wrote this article for the Vidyalaya patrika of a KV. )
When it comes to speech, we humans are slaves to convenience. We like to express our thoughts in the least possible time and with the least possible effort, using just sufficient number of words. A renowned thinker has said that it is a great tragedy that we cannot speak more than one word at the same time. This must be one of the reasons why all the proverbs which have been handed down to us from generations bygone are so succinct. Proverbs are often used to spice up our speech. Imagine what woud happen if these proverbs were as long as a paragraph. It would be so clumsy to use them. Here are ten of the most familiar proverbs, a little elongated from their original version. See if you can identify them. Try to use them in your speech.
Proverb 1: A container for holding any entity creates a comparatively greater degree of auditory impression if it is devoid of the entity which should occupy it.
Proverb 2: The substance that contains particles that easily move and change thier relative position without a separation of the mass and which travels through big and small vessels within living things with backbones is more viscous in consistency than an oxide of hydrogen.
Proverb 3: It is unadvisable to place the totality of the hard-shelled duplicating bodies produced by a certain backboned animal of the class Aves that aid in the close imitation of that animal in a single receptacle made of interwoven material.
Proverb 4: The fact or condition of being aware of something is quite hazardous if that awareness exists only to an appreciable and not to an extensive degree or amount.
Proverb 5: It is foolish to imagine that every bunch of small flashes of electromagnetic waves in the visible range returned from surfaces is a certain heavy, precious, yellow, metallic element which is unaffected by tempreature changes and is highly resistant to acids.
Proverb 6: One sufficiently early exercise involving a single in-and-out movement of a threaded steel instrument with an eye subsequently makes nine similar movements dispensable.
Proverb 7: The chronological periods as reckoned astronomically extending from March equinox to the June solistice and from December solistice to the March equinox are naturally consecutive.
Proverb 8: Carnivorous mammals of the family Canidae are bound to have a specific period of prominence.
Proverb 9: All open ways for vehicles, persons, and animals, expecially those lying outside of an urban district, run towards an important cultural centre which is the capital of Italy, on the river Tiber.
Proverb 10: A thing which stimulates aesthetic pleasure in a person is created by the combined action of the curved cornea, the internal fluids and the lens of the organ of vision of that person.
Are you scratching your head in confusion? Here are the ten proverbs in their original form.
Proverb 1: An empty vessel makes more noise.
Proverb 2: Blood is thicker than water.
Proverb 3: Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Proverb 4: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Proverb 5: All that glitters is not gold.
Proverb 6: A stitch in time saves nine.
Proverb 7: If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
Proverb 8: Every dog has its day.
Proverb 9: All roads lead to Rome.
Proverb 10: Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

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