Portuguese proverb of the day explains how success often depends on comparison. It shows that even small skills can make ...

Arabic proverb of the day highlights the saying “The end result of a good deed is a slap with the palms.” The proverb ...

Turkish proverb of the day explains the meaning of “Measure a thousand times and cut once” and shows how planning, patience, ...

This week’s guest on Poetry in Daily Life is Nile Stanley, PhD, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida. A teacher educator, artist-in-residence, and researcher for 36 years, he has been on a mission to ...

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 ...

Turkish Proverb of the Day: Turkish wisdom teaches that truth, like the sun, cannot be permanently obscured by falsehoods.

There is no place like home. The apple does not fall far from the tree. All that glitters is not gold.These are some examples of proverbs that most ...

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 ...