BATS!!! continued....

The saga of our bat ends with a successful release last night about 9:45 p.m. E.S.T. After a somewhat lengthy nap in a cardboard box (with air holes), we put our little friend out on the back porch well after dark, opened the box... and nothing happened. Fearing the worst I ushered the children in the house and said maybe our bat was still tired... After 45 minutes of praying the bat was only tired and not dead I went back outside to check. Sure enough it was gone, thank you Jesus! All is well that ends well.

Speaking of which (and changing gears- enough about the bat already!) did you know that "all is well that ends well" is a proverb and not a quote? Me either- until I went to cite it properly.

See http://www.worldofquotes.com/author/Proverb/33 for more information and other proverbs.

Proverb- the best defintion I could find (and actually liked) was from- http://www.vein.hu/library/proverbs/some.htm

Basically my understanding of the definition of a proverb is that a proverb is a short phrase that expresses a fixed idea. Other definitions can be found at the following links.

Yahoo Education - http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/entry/proverb
Merriam Webster Dictionary- online- http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=proverb

Not to be picky or anything... but... I went to look up the definition of the word quote at Dictionary.com - http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=quote&x=21&y=12
and I think that I am more confused than ever in my definitions of what exactly constitutes a proverb and a quote. To my way of thinking a proverb is a quote and no one seems to remember just who said what. Does anyone else see where this is leading but me? I'm thinking that (gasp) they're one and the same -without an attribution for the quote of course.

Before I get nailed on this one I do realize the subtle (and not so subtle) differences between quotes and proverbs. But I like to incite literary consternation.

For one more website about proverbs try the following link-
http://www.corsinet.com/braincandy/proverb.html

Until tomorrow- here's wishing you hope and happiness!