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• Proverbs

• Proverbs, Greek -- Early works to 1800

• Greek proverbs

• Centuriae XXI Proverbiorum, Ex Optimis Auctoribus Graecis Collectae (in Latin and Greek; Leiden: J. and D. Elsevier, 1653), by Michael Apostolius, contrib. by Petrus Pantinus and of Cyprus Gregory II
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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

• Vox Populi: Essays in the History of an Idea (originally published 1969; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by George Boas (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British (new edition, with Ramsay's collection of Scottish proverbs added; London: T. and J. Allman, 1819), ed. by Thomas Fuller, contrib. by Allan Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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)
• A Dictionary of International Slurs (Ethnophaulisms); With a Supplementary Essay on Aspects of Ethnic Prejudice (Cambridge, MA: Sci-Art Publishers, c1944), by A. A. Roback (page images at HathiTrust)
• One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• 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
  • page images at HathiTrust

• 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, Textuality, and Nativism in African Literature (Gainesville, FL et al.: University Press of Florida, c1998), by Adéléke Adéè̳kó̳ (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)

• Old Stories and Sayings of Great Britain and Ireland (London: C. W. Daniel, ca. 1911), ed. by Isabella Fyvie Mayo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Wit and Wisdom of the Haytians (New York: Scribner and Armstrong, 1877), by John Bigelow (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hawaiian Proverbs and Riddles (in English and Hawaiian; Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin #77; Honolulu: The Museum, 1930), by Henry P. Judd (page images at HathiTrust)

• Old Stories and Sayings of Great Britain and Ireland (London: C. W. Daniel, ca. 1911), ed. by Isabella Fyvie Mayo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Second Frutes (facsimile reproduction of a 1591 edition, with new introduction; Gainesville, FL: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1953), by John Florio, contrib. by R. C. Simonini (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ancient Jewish Proverbs (London: John Murray, 1911), by A. Cohen (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Yiddish Proverb: A Study in Folk Psychology (reprinted from the Jewish Forum, 1918), by A. A. Roback (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Yiddish Proverb: A Study in Folk Psychology (reprinted from the Jewish Forum, 1918), by A. A. Roback (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mongo Proverbs and Fables (Bongandanga: Congo Balolo Mission Press, 1921), by E. A. Ruskin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Maallaere og Ordtoke Fraa Vest-Agder, Fraa Fyrste Helvti av 1600-Talet (Handskr. no. 464, 8 i Thottske Samling) (Aeldre Norske Sprogminder #1, in Norwegian; Oslo: Grøndahl & Son, 1911), ed. by Torleiv Hannaas (with a later monograph in the series; multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• Norske Maalsamlingar Fraa 1740-Aari (Handskr. nr. 597. 4to i Kallske Samling) (Aeldre Norske Sprogminder #4, in Norwegian; Oslo: J. Dybwad, 1923), by Knud Leem, ed. by Torleiv Hannaas
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

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

• Sechuana Proverbs, With Literal Translations and Their European Equivalents; Diane Tsa Secoana le Maele a Sekgooa a a Dumalanang naco (in English and Tswana; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1916), by Sol. T. Plaatje
  • HTML at fynbosch.com
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Sechuana Proverbs, With Literal Translations and Their European Equivalents; Diane Tsa Secoana le Maele a Sekgooa a a Dumalanang naco (in English and Tswana; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1916), by Sol. T. Plaatje
  • HTML at fynbosch.com
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only