"If you want to go fast, go alone; but if you want to go far, go together." That was one piece of advice passed along at the just-concluded Democratic National Convention. The words were spoken by New ...

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 ...

Linguistic approaches of proverbs lack clear definition as well as reliable corpus, being widely dependent on an intuitive idea of proverbs. So we first try to shed light on the common notion of ...

Variations of this adage can be traced back to biblical times and are based on the experiences of mariners who sailed the Earth’s middle latitudes, where storms generally travel from west to east. The ...

PROVERBS not only are packed with wisdom, but they also reflect the culture, society and the people who use them. Studying proverbs may lead to analyses that have linguistic as well as cultural ...

A biblical proverb is "a short saying that expresses a universal truth for practical, godly living," according to Christianity.com. The word "proverb" comes from the Hebrew root word meaning "to be ...

I must commend our author, Loolo Florence Chinyere Duru, for her deep interest in the Igbo language and its proverbs. Proverbs are the wisdom of a people in a nutshell. Complex stories and situations ...

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 ...

Meaning: This is the opposite of the French proverb “Les bons comptes font les bons amis,” or “good accounts make good friends.” In this case, the proverb means, “don’t worry about the money you owe ...