Growing up in 1950s–60s Cyprus, Marina Marangos reflects on the proverbs that shaped her family's daily life—sayings passed ...

What really are proverbs, where do they come from, how are they disseminated and what function do they have in modern society? Those are questions that are often asked when people reflect on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Korean proverbs are small sentences with big lessons, shaped by generations of observation, culture, and lived experience.

If you are like most of your fellow Americans, you have reached the end of your rope when it comes to the political season. Finally it’s over and we can settle back into our tradition of finding fault ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bert O. States, professor of dramatic arts emeritus at the University of California at Santa Barbara, guides readers through the mythical land of “Proverbia,” where bits of received wisdom are both ...