Proverbial

Proverbial

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Proverbial episodes

  • A New Twist On an Old Favorite
    This week's proverb comes via political philosopher Edumnd Burke who wrote, "A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views." Join Joshua Gibbs as he explores what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.

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    27 min
  • Bully for You
    This week's proverb comes from Dante: "Fame, without which man's life wastes out of mind leaving on earth no more memorial than foam in water or smoke upon the wind." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.

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    29 min
  • No Easy Way Out
    This week's proverb is unattributed and it goes like this: "No good deed goes unpunished."

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    30 min
  • Finish Him

    This week's Proverb comes from Goethe: “Man’s good intentions, resolutions that always succumb to ingrained habit, are like the cleaning, scrubbing and adorning that we practice on Sundays, holidays, and feast days. We always get dirty again, to be sure, but such a partial cleaning process has the advantage of upholding the principle of cleanliness.”


    Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this Proverb has to say for modern men and women.


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    27 min
  • The Long Farewell
    This week's proverb is from Jonathan Swift: "life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.

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    29 min
  • Silence is Golden
    This week's proverb, which is unattributed, is "let sleeping dogs lie." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.

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    25 min
  • Heaven Can Wait
    This week's proverb is unattributed: "Youth is wasted on the young." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.

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    22 min
  • Made in Italy
    This week's proverb is unattributed: "the clothes make the man." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.

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    28 min
  • The Best Part of the Trip
    This week's proverb comes from Dante, that great Italian writer, who wrote, "if the will won't will, nothing can force it." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women.

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    32 min

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On every episode of Proverbial, teacher and author Joshua Gibbs (How to Be Unlucky: Reflections on the Pursuit of Virtue and Something They Will Not Forget: A Handbook for…