Most of us have heard the proverb "blood is thicker than water" countless times. It's typically used to emphasize that family ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Proverbs 26:1-12, with eleven verses about the fool, constitute the longest sequence of verses on the same topic in Proverbs. Six of these are "variant repetitions," repeated elsewhere in altered form ...

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 ...

Good artists copy; great artists steal. Perhaps Benjamin Franklin knew as much, because when he wrote his famous Poor Richard’s Almanack, he did not cite sources for the proverbs that peppered its ...

Meaning: This slightly outdated proverb is one of a genre of sayings advising people to be brief and not beat aroud the bush. Only the ignorant talk a lot without saying anything. Another version of ...

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 ...