Love, of course, is one of the most pleasant themes in our oral tradition. Frequently repeated phrases that constitute statements or pieces of moral advice on the topic function in our communal memory ...

Sure, love is wonderful, but sometimes it can be…complicated. Cultures all over the world have captured the hard lessons of love in the tiny, polished nuggets of wisdom we call proverbs. These 11 ...

This Valentine’s Day, let’s contemplate what love truly means, by way of the African proverbs: Where there is love, there’s no darkness. —Burundi (Love enlightens when it isn’t based on blind faith.) ...

No news is good news. Except that’s not always quite true. It certainly isn’t true when you have devoted your life to finding new proverbs. Wolfgang Mieder is professor of German and folklore at the ...

Who has more of a way with words than the Irish? From Joyce to Yeats to Shaw and down through the generations, they have pondered life's great questions, but also expressed their love beautifully.

My brethren we ought to have fear with love. What is fear with love How can one have fear with love? Fear with love and fear with fear Ooh! , it becomes so confusing. Is there anything like that? My ...