Proverbs 30:8 offers a wise prayer for balance: “Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is my portion ...

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark ...

There is a proverb for every occasion; that may be why proverbial wisdom is so contradictory itself. It seems so obvious to me now and I can hardly fathom how I didn't see it before. So, I have lined ...

(CNN) — If March’s weather is anything like what roared through Texas and the rest of the central and southern US in February… we’re in deep trouble. Often, March’s weather can be this ferocious. Have ...

MOLINE, Ill. — “March comes in like a lion and leaves like a lamb,” is a popular weather folklore saying that you may hear around this time of year. The saying was first coined in Thomas Fuller's 1732 ...

‘A person acts what he is when he may do what he will,’ wrote a monk in Kent at some point in the first half of the 11th century. This gnomic utterance was not of his own making — the monk in question ...

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