Proverbial

This week's proverb comes from Petrarch: "To be able to say how much you love is to love but little." Join Joshua Gibbs ... Read more

Today's proverb comes from Pericles. Here it is: "Wait for the wisest of counselors, time." Join Josh as he contemplates... Read more

Welcome back to Proverbial with Joshua Gibbs. In this episode, Joshua contemplates a proverb from Cicero, who said that ... Read more

In this week's episode, Joshua Gibbs contemplates a proverb from Horace: "our fathers age was worse than ours grandfathe... Read more

This week's proverb is from French playwright, Albert Guinon: "People who cannot bear to be alone are generally the wors... Read more

This week's proverb comes from Hesiod, in Works and Days: "Take your fill when the cask is first opened and when it is n... Read more

This week's proverb comes from an unknown English source: "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Remember: Subsc... Read more

This week's proverb is a French proverb without any known attribution: "To understand all is to forgive all." Join Joshu... Read more

This episode's proverb comes from Goethe: "a man does not mind being blamed for his faults and being punished for them, ... Read more

This week proverb comes by way of English essayist, William Hazlitt, who wrote that, "he will never have true friends wh... Read more

This week's proverb comes from Edmund Burke. It goes like this: "People will not look forward to posterity who never loo... Read more

This week's proverb comes from Solomon: "Do not pay attention to every word people say or you may hear your servant curs... Read more

This week's proverb comes from that famous American essayist, Ralph WaldoEmerson: "I pay the school master but 'tis the ... Read more

This week's (highly disputed) proverb is unattributed but well known. It say, "time heals all wounds." Join Josh Gibbs a... Read more

Today's proverb comes from George Orwell: The aim of the a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that... Read more

This week's proverb comes from England but is unattributed. It goes like this: "the cobbler's children have no shoes." J... Read more

This week's proverb comes from Alfred Lord Tennyson, the famous English poet, who once opined that "Tis better to have l... Read more

This week's proverb comes from the Roman scholar Cicero who said, "I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with su... Read more

This week's proverb is commonly attributed to Saint Ambrose: "When in Rome, do as the Romans Do." Remember, if you like ... Read more

This week's proverb comes from, well, almost everyone. It's the saying, "life goes on." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contempl... Read more