As would be expected, some quotations might well become proverbs, a good example being Theodore Roosevelt's 1901 statement "Speak softly and carry a big stick." There are some American speakers ...

My oldest examples are more than 4,000 years old, but the sentiments, in many cases, are still part of the daily conversation in many societies. Many of the proverbs reflect considerable male anxiety.

but The Oxford English Dictionary found examples as far back as the 1600s, when a gift was more likely to be a quill than a fruitcake. Alamy Finding out exactly where in the past a proverb emerged ...

So we wondered: Are these both examples of proverbs from African countries? What we found is that it takes a lot of phone calls to track down the origins of a proverb. And in the end, the answer ...

In short, the sources below are all great historical examples of their associated proverbs, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they originated the expressions. Whatever the case, it’s fun to ...

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 ...

There are many examples of Trump’s line included in a longer poem about memory. Those who say Trump’s proverb is Nigerian have latched onto one website, poemhunter.com, which says the poem’s ...