My 91-year-old grandmother has a litany of wise sayings, but one in particular always stayed with me. A few times after we attended a funeral, she would comment on the eulogies with a matter-of-fact ...

My 91-year-old grandmother has a litany of wise sayings, but one in particular always stayed with me. A few times after we ...

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Our collection of food proverbs and wise old sayings about food, eating and cooking from a variety of sources all over the world. He who eats alone chokes alone. Through sickness we recognize the ...

A modern twist on an old proverb claims that to err is wise. That’s a moral perversion of the original saying, and very much in keeping with our times. Because what the proverb actually said was that ...

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‘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 ...

The Japanese have a famous proverb about its highest mountain. It translates roughly as, “A wise person climbs Mount Fuji once; only a fool climbs it twice.” An even bigger goofball does it twice in ...

Proverbs tells us how the tongue of the wise brings or promotes healing. If we’re fortunate, we have known a wise man or woman, someone who spoke with love and truth specific to us and our situation.

All of us forget more than we remember, and therefore it has been my constant Custom to note down and record whatever I thought of myself, or received from Men, or Books, worth preserving… — from ...