Modern Proverbs Appeal (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

FWIW, I've heard it two or three times, never with an attribution.  Does that make it a proverb?

  JL

Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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On Wed, 23 May 2007, James C Stalker wrote:

> Wouldn't this be the first print version of the proverb? Perhaps refined
> from the oral version?

I don't see any reason to believe this is a proverb or had a preexisting
oral circulation. As far as I know, it's a quotation by Maslow, although
further research could always prove this wrong.

Fred Shapiro


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