Talk:Greek proverbs

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A greek proverb that refers to Mohammed? These proverbs are clearly Turkish, one of the many cultural aspects Greeks have inherited from the Turks (others include: food and music) during centuries of Ottoman rule in Greece and are now selling to the rest of the world with their nametag on.

There is hardly any doubt that "If Muhammad doesn't go to the mountain, then the mountain goes to Muhammad." would be a proverb with Islamic origins, not Greek, but it is a well known proverb in English as well, and the ultimate origins of many proverbs have been obscured by time. These proverb articles present proverbs that are well known or often used, and including them in common forms of expression for a language is not making a claim of origin. That this particular proverb's origin is almost certainly not Greek, does not make it or the others certainly Turkish, though that would be the most likely point of transmission in its case. There are many common proverbs of many languages where the oldest forms of them would indeed be recorded in Arabic, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Sanskrit, or even older languages that have mostly been forgotten. ~ Achilles 17:04, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Poster 1: Greek proverbs in this context means proverbs used in the Greek language not ones necessarily of Greek origin. We do in fact like Turkey and Turks. Your coffee is great and some of your music is quite good.

I think these ought to specify origins: modern, classical, etc. 67.189.60.250 18:52, 27 July 2006 (UTC) These definitely need some sort of citation. 72.196.14.187 03:01, 12 August 2008 (UTC)