Japanese proverb of the day highlights the meaning of the saying, "An ant's nest could bring down a hill." The proverb ...

African proverb of the day highlights the importance of caution, patience, and emotional control when dealing with powerful ...

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 ...

On the surface, the idea is straightforward. Give someone a fish and they eat for a day. Give them a fishing rod and they can keep feeding themselves. The contrast is clear enough that you don’t ...

A PROVERB, says the Oxford Dictionary, is ‘a short pithy saying in common and recognized use; a concise sentence, often metaphorical or alliterative in form, which is held to express some truth ...

Zulu Proverb of the day: A Zulu proverb highlights how the poor are often heard last. This ancient wisdom stresses that valuable ideas can come from anyone. Societies often overlook opinions based on ...

PROF Wolfgang Mieder (born 1944) is best known for his work on paremiology. Paroemias means proverbs and paremiology is the study of proverbs. Mieder says that the discussion as to what proverb is and ...

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 everything. There’s good reason: proverbs touch on just about ...

A proverb is wisdom packed in a brief and crisp sentence. Born of words of the wise, a proverb not only proffers advice based on experience but it also reflects the linguistic, cultural and social ...