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• Proverbial Lore in Nebraska (1933), by Emma Louise Snapp (PDF at unl.edu)
• Signs, Omens, and Portents in Nebraska Folklore (1933), by Margaret Cannell (PDF at unl.edu)
• One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images
  • DjVu at Georgia

• What Goes Around Comes Around: The Circulation of Proverbs in Contemporary Life (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2004), ed. by Kimberly J. Lau, Peter Tokofsky, and Stephen D. Winick (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Dumpy Proverbs (Dumpy Books for Children #24; London: Grant Richards, 1903), by Honor C. Appleton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Proverbs are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Wolfgang Mieder (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Our Hypocritical New National Motto "In God We Trust": A Study of the Congressional Substitution for "E Pluribus Unum" and its Theological Implications (New York: Exposition Press, 1963), by Abbott Boone (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903), ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt, contrib. by Alice Meynell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nachlese zu den Devisen für Deutschlands Gelehrte, Künstler etc. (in German; 1773), by Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Proverbs are the Best Policy: Folk Wisdom and American Politics (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2005), by Wolfgang Mieder (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• English-Romanian Dictionary of Equivalent Proverbs (second edition), by Teodor Flonta (HTML at deproverbio.com)

• Ancient Jewish Proverbs (London: John Murray, 1911), by A. Cohen (HTML at sacred-texts.com)

• Mongo Proverbs and Fables (1921), by E. A. Ruskin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• English-Romanian Dictionary of Equivalent Proverbs (second edition), by Teodor Flonta (HTML at deproverbio.com)

• A Collection of Scotch Proverbs, by Pappity Stampoy, contrib. by Archer Taylor (Gutenberg text)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Meditations in Wall Street (New York: W. Morrow and Co., 1940), by Henry Stanley Haskins, contrib. by Albert Jay Nock (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sand and Foam (1926), by Kahlil Gibran (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from The Atchison Globe (Topeka, KS: Crane and Co., 1911), by E. W. Howe (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Mashafa Falâsfâ Tabîbân: Das Buch der Weisen Philosophen Nach dem Aethiopischen Untersucht (in German; Leipzig: Druck von F. A. Brockhaus, 1875), by Carl Heinrich Cornill
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations From the Arabic (1913), by John Wortabet (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Platitudes in the Making: Precepts and Advices for Gentlefolk (reprint; original published London: D.J. Rider; New York: M. Kennerly, 1911), by Holbrook Jackson (page images (with notes added by a reader) at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stil und Form der Aphorismen Lichtenbergs: Ein Baustein zur Geschichte des Deutschen Aphorismus (in German; Keil: W. G. Mühlau, 1912), by Walter A. Berendsohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Distichs of Cato: A Famous Medieval Textbook, trans. by Wayland Johnson Chase (multieple formats at archive.org)

• The Table-Talk of John Selden (second edition; London: J. R. Smith, 1856), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Weller Singer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Table Talk of John Selden (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1892), by John Selden, ed. by Ri. Milward and Samuel Harvey Reynolds (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Aphorisms, by Hippocrates, trans. by Francis Adams (HTML at Internet Classics)

• Platitudes in the Making: Precepts and Advices for Gentlefolk (reprint; original published London: D.J. Rider; New York: M. Kennerly, 1911), by Holbrook Jackson (page images (with notes added by a reader) at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Quodlibets, by Robert Hayman (illustrated HTML at mun.ca)

• Minims: or, Man is the Only Animal That Wears Bow Ties (1982), by Tom Weller (illustrated HTML at tweller.com)

• Ovid's Elegies, by Ovid, trans. by Christopher Marlowe (HTML at Perseus)

• Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology, ed. by J. W. Mackail (Gutenberg text)
• Martial und die Griechische Epigrammatik (only volume published, in German; Vienna and Leipzig: A. Holder, 1911), by Karl Prinz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Poems of Meleager of Gadara (London: The Egoist Press, 1920), by Meleager, trans. by Richard Aldington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Minor Poems of Homer: The Battle of the Frogs and Mice; Hymns and Epigrams (with introductions by Coleridge and a Life of Homer spuriously attributed to Herodotus; New York: A. Denham and Co., 1872), by Homer, trans. by Thomas Parnell, George Chapman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Congreve, Richard Hole, and Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie, contrib. by Henry Nelson Coleridge and Pseudo-Herodotus (multiple formats at Internet Archive)
• Philodemos = Philodemos: His Twenty-Nine Extant Poems, by Philodemus, trans. by George Economou (HTML at Light and Dust)

• Ludvig Holbergs Moralske Tanker (Danish translations and notes on Latin epigrams; Copenhagen: K. Schønberg, 1859), by Ludvig Holberg, ed. by Gotfred Benjamin Rode
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Art of Worldly Wisdom, by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, trans. by Joseph Jacobs (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Reflections: or, Sentences and Moral Maxims (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1871), by François La Rochefoucauld, trans. by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell
  • PDF at Case Western
  • Gutenberg text
• The Economy of Human Life (this edition attributed to Dodsley, with illustrations "by F. Howard, Harvey, Williams, etc."; London: John van Voorst, 1834), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by F. Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life, in Two Books (this edition attributed to Dodsley; London: Printed for Shirley, Neely, and Jones, et al., 1809), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Frederick Mackenzie, W. M. Craig, and Thomas Uwins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life: Translated From an Indian Manuscript, Written by An Ancient Bramin (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; London: Printed for T. Tegg, 1811), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life, Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin; To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Manner in Which the Said Manuscript Was Discovered (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, 1807), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Alexander Anderson (page images at Google)
• The Wisdom of Life, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)
• The Wanderer (1932), by Kahlil Gibran (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di, trans. by James Ross (HTML at Fordham)
• The Rose Garden of Sa'di (or The Gulistan), by Sa'di, trans. by Edward Rehatsek
  • PDF at Omhaloskepsis
  • HTML at Adelaide

• Wikiquote (electronic edition, collaboratively updated) (HTML at wikiquote.org)
• Geflügelte Worte (in German; Berlin: Haude und Spener, 1880), by Georg Büchmann (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Geflügelte Worte (in German; Berlin: Haude und Spener, 1882), by Georg Büchmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Toasts and Forms of Public Address for Those Who Wish to Say the Right Thing in the Right Way, by William Pittenger (Gutenberg text)

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