This week’s guest on Poetry in Daily Life is Nile Stanley, PhD, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida. A teacher educator, artist-in-residence, and researcher for 36 years, he has been on a mission to ...

If proverbs are indeed the practical wisdom of a nation, then what do Polish proverbs have to tell us about the wisdom of the Poles? As common Polish wisdom has it, there’s supposed to be a proverb ...

‘THOSE who live in a glasshouse should change clothes in dark’, goes the anti-proverb, parodying the last part of the famous saying that advises to refrain from throwing stones. Anti-proverb is a ...

"The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction." — Proverbs 1:7, (World English Bible) I'm going to lay my truth right here on the line. I don't want ...

Dianne Stewart, Compiler (2005) "Wisdom from Africa: A Collection of Proverbs". Cape Town, Struik, 159 pages, hardcover, illustrated by Caine Swanson. P 84.00, ISBN 1-77007-026-5. Available at ...

There is a proverb to suit every occasion. That may be why proverbial wisdom contradicts itself so much. If a beautiful young woman is swept off her feet by a balding nerd, we say that opposites ...