“Fine words doth butter no parsnips” or so a man once said. Well, boy howdy, are your boys buttering up a big ‘ole batch of proverbs this week. We talk about our favorite sententious sayings in this episode and attempt to solve what science, art, and religion have failed to do: to answer “what is a proverb?” and “are we friends?”
“The Perception of Proverbiality” from Wise Words: Essays on the Proverb By: Shirley L Arora
Chicken Sexing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_sexing
Burgess Meredith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgess_Meredith
Downtime with John and Emily: https://www.getdowney.com/downtime-podcast/
The Yattering and Jack: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_Blood#Volume_One
“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 39 [Free Press, 1979]
