There’s a reference book called the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, which is how I know that it was some five-and-a-half centuries ago that a book first declared, “What you don’t know can’t hurt you.” ...

Thirty proverbs on power, justice, and politics.Yet that’s not to suggest the book has nothing to say of power as it works in our political context—far from it. Proverbs cautions us to be ...

"Your maxims are proverbs of ashes!" Thus spoke Job when his friends spouted pious platitudes in the face of his considerable suffering. Brock, a Harvard theologian, and Parker, a seminary ...

Depending on your origins, proverbs can be witty, funny, philosophical, and sometimes, even offensive.