‘A horse knows the road, even if its rider does not’ A horse on the steppe remembers what maps forget: A proverb from Mongolia where survival once depended on animal instinct, weather sens...
(AI image used for representational purposes only) “Look before you leap.”What does the proverb meanA leap is different from an ordinary step. Once a person has left the ground, there is little room t...
‘Even a blind hen finds a grain sometimes’ Imagine watching a hen pecking endlessly across a farmyard. Now imagine that the hen cannot see. Logic says it should never find food. Yet, soone...
The food that is in the mouth is not yet in the belly Africa has a rich collection of old sayings belonging to different countries and their stories present a slice of their culture. Among many well-k...
French proverb – Little by little, the bird makes its nest. You want to write a book. You start with a sentence. Then another. Then another. The language app you downloaded? One lesson a day. Th...
Chinese proverb – Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still The new language app you downloaded sits untouched on your phone. The gym membership you bought in January has...
‘A desperate person clings even to a knife’ Why a desperate person ‘clings to a knife‘ and why this Filipino proverb still speaks to the modern world Imagine standing at the ed...
Canadian proverb of the day is: Do not yell ‘dinner’ until your knife is in the loaf A premature celebration of success often jinxes the outcome and though it’s a little superstitiou...
Nigerian proverb of the day (AI-generated image) Stare at a gutter long enough and you’ll catch fish. It sounds like nonsense at first. Who finds fish in a gutter? But that’s the sly trick...
Japanese proverb of the day (AI-generated image) A thousand years against one hour. That’s the strange arithmetic at the heart of this Japanese proverb, and it’s worth pausing on. The repu...