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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

100 Fresh Takes on Familiar Sayings and Quotations. As his own cover suggests, Baggini's book takes to task 100 well-known aphorisms that are frequently misused. Take this saying written by German ...