Proverbs. They’re old-fashioned, folksy, pithy — and everywhere. From old chestnuts like “no pain, no gain” to sports wisdom like “the best offence is a good defence”, there seems to be a proverb for ...

Plucked directly from Gerd de Ley’s Book of Chinese Proverbs: A Collection of Timeless Wisdom, Wit, Sayings & Advice, these 50 proverbs really strike a chord and are worth keeping in your back pocket.

We're awash in knowledge in 2023, but do you think our general level of understanding is greater? Do you think we're wiser? I'm not so sure, so when I was challenged to re-read through one of the ...

We may travel far and wide, but wisdom and wit will always ring true. These sayings from countries all over this beautiful world reveal important lessons and universal truths for us all. What is a ...

Love is such a beautiful thing, and everyone has their own way of expressing it. Some people love songs or poetry, and some just use love quotes or even love proverbs to try and put that most ...

Mineke Schipper is the author of "Never Marry a Woman With Big Feet: Women in Proverbs From Around the World," forthcoming from Yale University Press. Earlier this year, the Spanish Roman Catholic ...

Culture plays a big role in what we feel, how we identify these feelings and what we do to deal with our emotions. So, those raised in more “macho” cultures may be more likely to suppress emotions ...

“Knowledge is power.” “Haste makes waste.” “All that glitters is not gold.” These statements are all well-known proverbs: short sayings that give us a piece of advice or wisdom to help teach us a ...

Today, Sunday, December 21 marks the first day of winter, the beginning of the winter solstice, making this day the shortest day and the longest night. Today is considered the first ...

Geoff Nunberg is the linguist contributor on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. He is the author of the book The Way We Talk Now. Proverbs are like other traditions — they owe their longevity to how ...