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• 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
  • HTML at Gutenberg Australia
  • text at Gutenberg Australia
• 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
• Steps to the Crown (London: P. Wellby, 1907), by Arthur Edward Waite
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • 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)
• 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• 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)

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• 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)

• 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

• 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
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• 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
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• 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 (Gutenberg text)
• Sparks From the Philosopher's Stone (London: D. Bogue, 1882), by James Lendall Basford
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• 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, William Marshall 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 Sayings of the Wise, or, Food for Thought: A Book of Moral Wisdom, Gathered From the Ancient Philosophers (London: E. Stock, 1908), by William Baldwin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Treatise of Morall Phylosophie, Contayning the Sayings of the Wyse (London: E. Whitchurche, 1547)
  • negative page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at EEBO TCP
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di, trans. by James Ross (HTML at Fordham)
• The Gulistan of Sa'di, by Sa'di, trans. by Edward Rehatsek (HTML at Wayback Machine)

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