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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb is anonymous (but very well known): The apple does not fall far from the tree. Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb is unattributed and it goes like this: "No good deed goes unpunished." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb is unattributed: "hunger is the best sauce." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In this week's episode Joshua Gibbs contemplates Solomon's famous "there is a time" proverb from Scripture. Join him as he contemplates what this passage has to say for modern men and women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This weeks' proverb is unattributed: "happy wife, happy life." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb comes from composer Gustav Mahler, who said that "tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. And if you like the show please leave a rating or a review wherever you get podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb is unattributed and says: "if all men were angels no government would be necessary." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb is unattributed, but it goes like this: "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women. Remember to rate and review wherever you get podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb is from Jules Renard, who said: "To have a horror of the bourgeoisie is bourgeoisie." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb comes to us via Solomon who wrote: "The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth the brilliant or favor to the learned, but time and chance happen to them all." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb comes to us by way of Dr. Samuel Johnson and it goes like this: "He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplaltes what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's (very famous) proverb comes from William Shakespeare and his play, As You Like It . It says, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. If you like this show be sure to rate and review wherever you get podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb comes from the Roman writer, Seneca, who said that "to repay a favor too quickly is ingratitude." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates with this proverb has to say to modern men and women. And if you like this episode be sure to rate and review wherever you get podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb is an old Jewish saying: "Whoever saves one life, saves the world entirely." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women. And if you like this episode, please be sure to rate and review it wherever you get podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb comes from Leo Tolstoy, that famous Russian novelist, who once wrote that "all happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say to modern men and women. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb is unattributed but quite famous: "Desperate times call for desperate measures." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to offer modern men and women. If you like this episode please be sure to rate and review wherever you get podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb comes from Alfred Lord Tennyson, the famous English poet, who once opined that "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to say for modern men and women. And if you like this episode be sure to rate and review wherever you get podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb comes from the Roman scholar Cicero who said, "I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with such men as these." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates what this proverb has to offer modern men and women. If you like this episode, be sure to rate and review wherever you get podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb comes from that famous American essayist, Ralph WaldoEmerson: "I pay the school master but 'tis the school boys who educate my son." Join Joshua Gibbs for a contemplation of this proverb and what it has to offer modern men and women. And remember to rate and review wherever you listen to podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week's proverb comes from England but is unattributed. It goes like this: "the cobbler's children have no shoes." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates the nature of this proverb and what it has to say for modern men and women. If you like this episode be sure to rate and review it wherever you listen to podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Today's proverb comes from George Orwell: The aim of the a joke is not to degrade the human being but to remind him that he is already degraded . Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates this saying and what it can offer modern men. If you like this episode, please be sure to rate and review in whatever app you're using to listen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This episode's proverb comes from Goethe: "a man does not mind being blamed for his faults and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers for them, but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up." Join Joshua Gibbs as he contemplates the implications of this proverb for modern men. If you like this episode, please be sure to rate and review wherever you get podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
