The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions interrogates the truth of proverbs, adages, aphorisms and bons mots ...

My advanced age, plus staying pretty much cooped up due to the COVID pandemic, has had me reflecting on the past. And in some ways, longing for it. I’ve been writing down adages as they’ve come to ...

In times such as these, when hope is thin and trust seems headed for the western horizon, songs and adages of the past keep coming back, to soothe and to reassure. At the moment, the song is “Comin’ ...

When I was a callow youth, my neighborhood buddies and I used to sing a learned lyric that played around with levels of diction: These days my youthful adventure in oblique obfuscation, polysyllabic ...