Talk:elsk mig mest, når jeg fortjener det mindst, for da har jeg størst behov for det

RFD discussion: November 2020–February 2021
I'm kinda unsure about a lot of these supposed proverbs you've been adding. In this particular case I'm not sure it's even attested, but it also feels too literal and too unwieldy; proverbs are usually short and sweet, often use figurative language, and sometimes have some sort of euphony, e.g. rhymes, alliteration. This is really just a sentence.__Gamren (talk) 13:59, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
 * The source this was copied from lists several aphorisms that are clearly not proverbs, such as At leve er det sjældneste af alt i verden. De fleste mennesker eksisterer, ikke andet (Oscar Wilde, from The Soul of Man Under Socialism; in the original English “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”) and Vær forsigtig med at læse bøger om sundhed. Du kan dø af en trykfejl! (original English “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” Attributed to Mark Twain). Thus, there is no reason to assume its presence on that source indicates it is more than an aphorism of the kind people may want to have cross-stitched and framed to hang it in the wall. --Lambiam 15:11, 28 November 2020 (UTC)


 * I agree, it's probably not used as a proverb but more as a citation/mantra or whatever.--So9q (talk) 18:12, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Testing a small sample of these proverbs added on 2 September 2019 in a Google Books search, I find fewer than three uses for most, and often none at all. --Lambiam 16:22, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Let's start with these that seem particularly unproverblike:
 * elsk ikke en kvinde, fordi hun er ung, og forlad hende ikke, fordi hun er gammel ("don't love a woman because she is young, and don't leave her because she is old")
 * almindelig sund fornuft er ikke så almindelig endda ("common sense is not so common after all")
 * det er sundt at leve sjovt, men det er ikke sjovt at leve sundt ("it is healthy to live fun, but it's not fun to live healthy")
 * de fleste selvmord i danmark begås med kniv og gaffel ("most suicides in denmark[sic] are committed with knife and fork")
 * helbredet værdsættes ikke, før sygdommen kommer ("health is not appreciated before sickness comes")
 * det er hård kost at æde sine egne ord ("eating one's words is a tough meal" -- note that is already a term-in-itself)
 * det giver en kort varme at tisse i bukserne ("peeing in one's pants gives a brief warmth") (this one is at least metaphorical, but this particular phrasing only shows up in one book on Google Books. However, is fairly common.)
 * __Gamren (talk) 20:21, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
 * der er sorte får i enhver flok ("there are black sheep in any flock" -- note that is already a term-in-itself)
 * alting er let, når bare man kan det ("everything is easy, as long as you know how to do it")
 * __Gamren (talk) 23:50, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
 * . RFV deleted. As a reminder to myself, most of these were created in September 2019.__Gamren (talk) 13:52, 23 February 2021 (UTC)