Proverbs
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Broader terms:Related terms:Narrower terms:- Proverbs -- History and criticism
- Proverbs -- Juvenile literature
- Proverbs -- Political aspects
- Mottoes
- Proverbs in literature
- Proverbs, American
- Proverbs, English
- Proverbs, Greek
- Proverbs, Haitian
- Proverbs, Hawaiian
- Proverbs, Irish
- Proverbs, Italian
- Proverbs, Jewish
- Proverbs, Kongo
- Proverbs, Norwegian
- Proverbs, Scottish
- Proverbs, Tswana
- Proverbs, Yiddish
- Adages
- Ana
- Gnomes (Maxims)
- Proverbial sayings
- Proverbs -- Dictionaries
- Sayings
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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
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Aphorisms and apothegms- Nachdenkliches ("zweite folge", in German; New York: The author, 1943), by Karl T. Marx (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- 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
- Caprichos (in Spanish; Madrid: Cuadernos Literarios, 1925), by Ramón Gómez de la Serna, illust. by José Moreno Villa (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Greguerías (in Spanish; Valencia: Prometeo, ca. 1914), by Ramón Gómez de la Serna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Greguerías Escogidas (in Spanish; Paris et al.: Agencia Mundial de Librería, ca. 1924), by Ramón Gómez de la Serna (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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
- Steps to the Crown (London: P. Wellby, 1907), by Arthur Edward Waite
- Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations From the Arabic (1913), by John Wortabet (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
- Ioannis Stobaei Florilegium (4 volumes in 1, in Greek with Latin notes; Leipzig: B. G. Teubneri, 1855-1857), ed. by Stobaeus and August Meineke (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Kaleidoscope of Anecdotes and Aphorisms (London: R. Bentley, 1851), ed. by Catherine Sinclair
- 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)
- Aphorisms on Man (second edition; London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. Johnson, 1789), by Johann Caspar Lavater, ed. by Henry Fuseli (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- A Thousand and One Epigrams, Selected From the Writings of Elbert Hubbard (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, 1911), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
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