There are any
number of answers to this week’s question… can you think of a proverb that
deals with interest (as in concern)?
Among them are:
- Everyone speaks for his own interest.
- He who makes an idol of his interest
makes a martyr of his integrity.
- Interest blinds some people, enlightens
others.
- It is in his own interest that the cat
purrs.
- When interest is lost, memory is lost.
- Would you persuade, speak of interest,
not of reason.
The question (&
answer) were taken from p. 333 of A Dictionary of American Proverbs edited by Wolfgang Mieder, et al. The book
was published by Oxford University Press in 1992.
