Quote of the day
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Simplification is the essence of abstraction from which objective values are not necessarily eliminated.
Wolfgang Mieder
Born: February 17, 1944 (age 82)
Bio: Wolfgang Mieder is professor of German and folklore at the University of Vermont, in Burlington, Vermont, USA. He is a graduate of Olivet College, the University of Michigan, and Michigan State University.
Known for:
- Proverbs: A Handbook (2004)
- Proverbs are never out of season (1993)
- The politics of proverbs (1997)
- The Pied Piper: A Handbook (2007)







