There is a proverb for every occasion; that may be why proverbial wisdom is so contradictory itself. It seems so obvious to me now and I can hardly fathom how I didn't see it before. So, I have lined ...

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark ...

MOLINE, Ill. — “March comes in like a lion and leaves like a lamb,” is a popular weather folklore saying that you may hear around this time of year. The saying was first coined in Thomas Fuller's 1732 ...

‘A person acts what he is when he may do what he will,’ wrote a monk in Kent at some point in the first half of the 11th century. This gnomic utterance was not of his own making — the monk in question ...

From a Biblical perspective to me, one of the most potent passages of scripture can be found in Isaiah 33:6. The prophet states, and I quote, “And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy ...

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