‘THOSE who live in a glasshouse should change clothes in dark’, goes the anti-proverb, parodying the last part of the famous saying that advises to refrain from throwing stones. Anti-proverb is a ...
PROF Wolfgang Mieder (born 1944) is best known for his work on paremiology. Paroemias means proverbs and paremiology is the study of proverbs. Mieder says that the discussion as to what proverb is and ...