“Confucius says” usually begins a fortune-cookie message or a proverb. That shouldn’t surprise us, because proverbs are found in many lands and cultures. The Old Testament even has a whole ...

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These days, people use a shortened version of most of the proverbs, because of the natural process of cutting the speech and expressions, to make it short and faster. We already explained the ...

Russians are fans of proverbs and masterfully juggle them in different situations. A foreigner who wants to know Russian as a native and to understand Russians and their “mysterious soul ...

But we’re not all poets, and it can be difficult to explain all the ways that someone ... that can sum up your feelings in a single phrase. Proverbs are short popular sayings that are usually ...

He is the author of the book The Way We Talk Now. Proverbs are like other traditions — they owe their longevity to how easy it is to reinterpret what they mean. Take "A rolling stone gathers no ...