Talk:if you love someone, set them free
Latest comment: 6 years ago by Metaknowledge in topic RFD discussion: November 2017–January 2018
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Not buying this as a proverb, nor that it was coined by Sting. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 05:10, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
- keep - seems proverbial enough to me - a formulaic piece of sage wisdom. My Googling didn't turn up anything prior to the 1980s, which surprised me. I seem to remember it from before then. Is there some other form of it? - Sonofcawdrey (talk) 07:42, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
- I'm seeing references such as [1] to the fact that American author Richard Bach said: "If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were." However, Google Books doesn't appear to indicate the actual work by Bach in which it appears; perhaps this quotation is inaccurate. — SGconlaw (talk) 07:48, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
- It is also phrased as "If you love [someone, somebody, them], let them go". bd2412 T 19:14, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
- I'm seeing references such as [1] to the fact that American author Richard Bach said: "If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were." However, Google Books doesn't appear to indicate the actual work by Bach in which it appears; perhaps this quotation is inaccurate. — SGconlaw (talk) 07:48, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
- Delete. --Barytonesis (talk) 16:13, 21 November 2017 (UTC)
- Delete. Not dictionary material. Mihia (talk) 00:58, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
- RFD failed. —Μετάknowledgediscuss/deeds 05:51, 7 January 2018 (UTC)