Proverbial

Proverbial

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Proverbial episodes

  • The King of Infinite Space
    In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway wrote, “It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.” Joshua Gibbs investigates. 

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    23 min
  • Michael Bay
    "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible," said Stanislaw Lec. This isn't just a proverb about riots and mobs, though. It's about our guilty pleasures. Joshua Gibbs examines. 

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    22 min
  • Lenny Belardo
    "Don't smile before Christmas" is a common proverb traded by veteran teachers. It is a saying which is particularly offensive to an egalitarian age. Joshua Gibbs explores. 

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    22 min
  • I Care
    "You can't make everybody happy all the time," but why would any sane person try? Join Joshua Gibbs as he considers the paradoxes of human happiness. 

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    22 min
  • Drenched to the Bone
    "May you live in interesting times" is a Chinese curse. Why? What's so bad about interesting things? Tolstoy is interesting, right? Joshua Gibbs investigates. 

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    20 min
  • On Occasion
    "The art of living is to know how to enjoy a little and endure very much," claimed William Hazlitt. Join Joshua Gibbs as he mulls over this proverb. 

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    24 min
  • Prometheus
    "God doesn't give with both hands" is unusual because very few proverbs refer to God. Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates this hard saying. 

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    31 min
  • Marvin
    Jane Austen wrote, "The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient - at others, so bewildered and so weak - and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! - We are to be sure a miracle every way - but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out." In this episode, Gibbs tells a single story from a difficult summer when he believed his life was ending.

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    30 min
  • My Girls
    "Birds of a feather flock together." This is a hard saying for social engineers of all sorts, especially teachers and party hosts. Join Joshua Gibbs as he unpacks this surprisingly confrontational saying.

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    20 min

About Proverbial

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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…