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 ...

A Maori recommendation advises a mother as follows: “Massage the legs of your daughter, that she may have a good appearance when standing before the fire on the beach”. Young Maori women, it is ...

Proverbs 31:4-7 (RSV): [4] It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to desire strong drink; [5] lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and pervert the ...

From "early bird" to "gift horse," there's a proverb for every situation. While they don't hold absolute truth, parents and advertisers find them useful. Wolfgang Mieder tells DW how to create one - ...

I have come across a collection of Urdu proverbs. Muhammad Zaman Khan, a lawyer by profession, has compiled it – a labour of love. He has also published it on his own. In the first of two sections of ...

What is a modern day "virtuous" woman? Proverbs 31 is the last chapter in the book of wisdom. When it comes to being last, it proves a good woman is worth waiting for. It describes the type of woman ...

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 ...

The Book of Proverbs can be a humbling or even humiliating read. For every verse that lulls us into self-satisfaction of our righteousness comes another that aims its arrows at our own hearts too.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Maria Zijlstra: Hi, I'm Maria Zijlstra, talking today with the much-lauded professor of German and ...

The book "Pearls of Wisdom from the Gulf and the Globe" represents a compendium of the Gulf's most commonly used proverbs, featuring 1,001 proverbs translated from Arabic into English Manama: For most ...