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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
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• 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
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• Steps to the Crown (London: P. Wellby, 1907), by Arthur Edward Waite
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• 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
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• 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)
• Wisdom for the wise; a book of proverbs, (New York, Dodge publishing company, [c1907]), by Lorenzo Sosso (page images at HathiTrust)
• A century of observations ... ([Philadelphia, 1919]), by Emanuel Furth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Armilla catechetica = A chain of principles, or, An orderly concatenation of theological aphorismes and exercitations, wherein the chief heads of the Christian religion are asserted and improved / by John Arrowsmith. (Cambridge : Printed by John Field, printer to the University, 1659), by John Arrowsmith (page images at HathiTrust)
• The kaleidoscope of anecdotes and aphorisms / collected by Catherine Sinclair ... (London : R. Bentley, 1851), by Catherine Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sentenzen aus Jean Pauls und Hippels Schriften, aus Dya-Na-Sore, Agnes von Lilien, Walter und Nanny : für Humanität und Menschenbildung. (Frankfurt am Main : In der Berenschen Buchhandlung, 1801), by Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von Stammbüchern und Rebus. (Berlin, W. Hertz, 1855) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A cheerful year book, for the recording of engagements and other serious matters, accompanied by philosophic and moral aphorisms ... (New York, H. Holt and company, 1906), by Frederick Milton Knowles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon : or, Many things in few words, addressed to those who think / (New York : William Gowans, 1849), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laconics : or Instructive miscellanies, selected from the best authors, ancient and modern / (Philadelphia :, 1827) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The book of aphorisms. (Glasgow, W. R. McPhun, 1834), by Robert Macnish (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorisms of the Three Threes / (Chicago : C.H. Kerr, 1887), by Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana (University of Illinois at Chicago) ICIU and Three Threes (Club), ed. by Edward Owings Towne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil d'adages et de pensées détachées, empruntés la plupart aux langues orientales et suivis de quelques essais de littérature, (Paris, Challamel, 1867), by Ch. Duchenoud (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon; (New York, E. Kearny, [1836?]), by Charles Caleb Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pensées ingenieuses des anciens et des modernes / (A Paris : Chez la veuve de Sebastien Mabre-Cramoisy ..., 1692), by Dominique Bouhours, veuve Mabre Cramoisy, and Adriaan Schoonebeek (page images at HathiTrust)
• A laconic manual and brief remarker [electronic resource] : containing over a thousand subjects, alphabetically and systematically arranged / (Toronto : R. Dick, 1853), by Charles Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• A laconic manual and brief remarker [electronic resource] : containing over a thousand subjects, alphabetically and systematically arranged / (Toronto : R. Dick, 1853), by Charles 1798-1856 Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• A laconic manual and brief remarker [electronic resource] : containing over a thousand subjects, alphabetically and systematically arranged / (Toronto : R. Dick, 1852), by Charles 1798-1856 Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• Predigten über Sprüchwörter / (Erfurt : In der Henningschen Buchhandlung, 1799-1801), by Sylvester Jakob Ramann and Harold Jantz Collection (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library) NcD (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorisms on man / (Dublin : Printed by W. Sleater, Dame-Street, and P. Byrne, Grafton-Street, MDCCXC [1790]), by Johann Caspar Lavater, Patrick Byrne, William Sleater, and Henry Fuseli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specchio di scienze et compendio delle cose, d'Oratio Rinaldi bolognese : nel quale sommariamente si trouano raccolte le materie più notabili, che da' studiosi d'ogni scienza possono desiderarsi, ridotte tutte sotto i suoi capi vniuersali : nvovamente posto in lvce. (In Venetia : Appresso Francesco Ziletti, 1583), by Orazio Rinaldi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Living words, or, Sam Jones' own book [electronic resource] : containing sermons and sayings of Sam P. Jones and Sam Small, delivered in Toronto and elsewhere : with the story of Mr. Jones' life written by himself / (Toronto : W. Briggs, [1886?]), by Sam P. Jones and Sam W. Small (page images at HathiTrust)
• A pioneer gathering of books of a sententious character, comprising proverbs, parables, sage summaries and saws [electronic resource] : being the contents of the Log shanty book-shelf for the year 1893, in the Pioneer's Lodge, Exhibition Park, Toronto / ([Toronto? : s.n.], 1893), by Henry Scadding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Benjamin Franklin's Way to wealth; and William Penn's Maxims ... (New-York : Published by Daniel Cooledge, 1834), by Benjamin Franklin and W. Fruits of solitude Penn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brilliants / (New York : H. M. Caldwell, 1893), by David Swing and Alice L. Williams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Truth, (Chicago, Ill., Regan Printing and Publishing House, [c1909]), by John Alexander Joyce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophy and froth. (New York, Broadway Pub. Co., 1905), by Florence Rosse (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gems of thought; being a collection of more than a thousand choice selections, or aphorisms, from nearly four hundred and fifty different authors, and on one hundred and forty different subjects. (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1888), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon; or many thngs in few words;addressed to those who think. (New York, Wella, [1836, 1828]), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laconics : or, the best words of the best authors. (London : S.W. Sustenance, 1831) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sententsii sau Pilde filosofeshchi. (Iashii : In typ. Sfn. Mitropoliu, 1844), by Mikhail Grigoriu Sturza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon : or, Many things in few words : addressed to those who think / (London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1820-1825), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guesses at truth / (London: : Macmillan and Co., 1874), by Julius Charles Hare and Augustus William Hare (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geistige Waffen. Ein Aphorismen-Lexikon... (Freiburg i B. und Leipzig : P. Waetzel, [1901]), by Camille Schaible (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The works of Christina Queen of Sweden : containing maxims and sentences in twelve centuries, and reflections on the life and actions of Alexander the Great / (London : Printed for D. Wilson and T. Durham ..., 1753), by Queen of Sweden Christina (page images at HathiTrust)
• The economy of human life. (London, G. Nodes, [17--?]), by Robert Dodsley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The management of the tongue : under the following very important and useful heads: conversation--babbler--silent man--witty man-- droll--jester ... / (Boston : Published by Isaiah Thomas, 1817), by Laurent Bordelon and Duke University. Library Jantz Collection. German Americana (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon; or, Many things in few words: addressed to those who think. (New-York, C. Wells, [1836]), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon: or, Many things in few words; addressed to those who think. (London, Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1837), by Caleb Charles Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hive: or, A collection of thoughts on civil, moral, sentimental and religious subjects: selected from the writings of near one hundred of the best authors of different nations; but chiefly from the English writers. Intended as a repository of sententious, ingenious, and pertinent sayings, in verse and prose... (Hartford, Lincoln & Gleason, printers, Printed for and sold by Oliver D. Cooke, 1803) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon; or, Many things in few words; addressed to those who think. (Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, 1871), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wits common-wealth:, or, A treasury of divine, moral, historical and political admonitions, similies, and sentences. : For the use of schools. (London : Printed for W. Taylor, at the Ship and Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row., MDCCXXII. [1722]), by active 1580-1607 N. L. (Nicholas Ling), Isabelle Brown, William Taylor, John Bodenham, and former owner. CSmH Francis Bacon Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Backbone : hints for the prevention of jelly-spine curvature and mental squint ; a straight-up antidote for the blues and a straight-ahead sure cure for grouch. (Ravenswood, [Ill.], c1911), by S. DeWitt Clough (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophische Aphorismen nebst einigen Anleitungen zur philosophischen Geschichte / (Leipzig : Schwickert, 1793-1800), by Ernst Platner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Einfaelle und Begebenheiten / ([Leipzig : s. n.,], 1761), by Karl Ferdinand Hommel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Auntient lere, containing a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages on interesting and important subjects, (London, Longman, 1812) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The poetic lacon, or, Aphorisms from the poets. A collection of laconic and beautiful sentiments, culled from ancient and modern poetry. (New York, D. Appleton & co.; Philadelphia, G. S. Appleton, 1847), by Benjamin Casseday (page images at HathiTrust)
• Scaligeriana, sive, Excerpta ex ore Josephi Scaligeri / (Hagae-Comitis : Ex typographia Adriani Vlacq, 1666), by Joseph Juste Scaliger, Isaac Vossius, Jean Daillé, Nicolas Vassan, Jean Vassan, Pierre Dupuy, Jacques Dupuy, and Duke University. Library. Gilbert Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• L. Annaei Senecae & P. Syri mimi, forsan etiam aliorum, singulares sententiae / (Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Johannem du Vivie, 1708), by Syrus Publilius, Abraham Preiger, Siwart Haverkamp, Joseph Juste Scaliger, Janus Gruterus, and Lucius Annaeus Seneca (page images at HathiTrust)
• L. Annaei Senecae & P. Syri mimi, forsan etiam aliorum, singulares sententiae / (Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Henrici [sic] Teering, 1727), by Syrus Publilius, Abraham Preiger, Siwart Haverkamp, Joseph Juste Scaliger, Janus Gruterus, and Lucius Annaeus Seneca (page images at HathiTrust)
• Richardsoniana : or, Occasional reflections on the moral nature of man; subbested by various authors, ancient and modern, and exemplified from those authors. With several anecdotes interspersed / (London : J. Dodsley, 1776), by Jonathan Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon, or, Many things in few words : addressed to those who think / (New York : Charles Wells, 1836), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Johnsoniana; or, Supplement to Boswell: being anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, (London, J. Murray, 1836) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ḳlasifitsirṭes aforizmen-zamelbukh : oysgeṿehlṭe gedanḳen fun di berihmṭesṭe shrifṭshṭeler fun ale felḳer un tsayṭen /, ed. by Daṿid Igelberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wise sayings from the Orient. (Mount Vernon, N. Y., Peter Pauper Press, [1963]), by Peter Pauper Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Nordiskt och klassiskt : Aforismer. (Stockholm : Bonnier, [1914]), by Vilhelm Ekelund (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Spruchwörterbuch : Sammlung deutscher und fremder sinnsprüche, wahlsprüche, inschriften and haus und gerät, grabsprüche, sprichwörter, aphorismen, epigramme, von Bibelstellen, liederanfängen, von zitaten aus älteren und neueren klassikern, sowie aus den werken moderner schrifsteller, von schnaderhüpfin, wetter- und bauernregeln, regeln, redensarten usw., nach den leitworten, sowie geschichtlich geordnet und unter mitwirkung deutscher gelehrter und schriftsteller herausgegeben von Frans freiherrn von Lipperheide. (Berlin : F. Lipperheide, 1909), ed. by Franz Lipperheide (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hecatongraphie : c'est à dire la description de cent figures & hystoires, cõtenas̃ plusieurs apophtegmes, prouerbes, sentences & ditz, tant des anciens, que des modernes / (À Paris : Par Estienne Groulleau ..., 1548), by Gilles Corrozet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apothegmas que son dichos graciosos y notables de muchos reyes y principes illustres, : y de algunos philosophos insignes y memorables y de otros varones antiguos que bien hablaron para nuestra doctrina y exemplo: / (En Enuers [Antwerp] : En la enseña del vnicornio dora do en casa de Martin Nucio, 15.49), by Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Nuyts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apophthegmata Graeca regum & ducum, philosophorum item, aliorúmque quorundam: ex Plutarcho & Diogene Laertio. / ([Geneva] : Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, illustris viri Huldrichi Fuggeri typographus., Anno 1568), by Plutarch, Raffaele Regio, Henri Estienne, Diogenes Laertius, and Plutarch. Apophthegmata laconica. Latin & Greek (page images at HathiTrust)
• Teutsche Apophthegmata, das ist, Der teutschen Scharsinnige kluge Sprüche : in zwei Teil / (Zu Leijden, : bey Frantz Hegern. ;, im 1644 Jahre), by Julius Wilhelm Zincgref and Johann Leonhard Weider, contrib. by American Institute of Wine & Food (page images at HathiTrust)
• Disticha de moribus / (Antuerpiae : Apud Philippum Nutium, anno 1565), by Phillipus Nutius and Martin Godoy de Loaysis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Morvm philosophia historica; ex probatis scriptoribus collecta, ([S.l.] Excvdebat Iacobvs Stoer, 1594), by Simon Goulart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Elegantiarum e Plauto et Terentio libri duo, : Publii Syri mimographi & poëtarum veterum sententiae selectae, / (Lipsiae. : Imprimebat Iohannes Steinman. Typis Voegelianis., Anno 1571), by Ernst Vögelin, Syrus Publilius, Terence. Selections. German and Latin, Titus Maccius. Selections. German and Latin Plautus, Georg Fabricius, and Desiderius Erasmus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Floresta española de apoctemas, o, Sentencias sabia- y graciosamente dichas de algunos españoles / (Madrid : Impr. de P.J. Alonso de Padilla, 1728), by Melchor de Santa Cruz de Dueñas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Valesiana, ou, Les pensées critiques, historiques et morales, et les poesies latines de monsieur de Valois / (Paris : F. & P. Delaulne, 1694), by Adrien de Valois, Louis Cousin, and Charles de Valois (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apophthegmatum opus cum primis frugiferum, : uigilanter ab ipso recognitum authore, è Graeco codice correctis aliquot locis, in quibus interpres Diogenis Laërtij sesellerat. / ([Lyon] : Seb. Gryphius excudebat Lugduni,, anno 1541), by Desiderius Erasmus, Sebastianus Gryphius, and Diogenes Laertius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apophthegmatum ex optimis vtriusque linguae scriptoribus quum priscis, : tum recentioribus. : Parabolarum item seu similitudinum, loci communes / (Parisiis, : Apud Ioannem Parant, via Iacobaea., 1579), by Konrad Lykosthenes and Jean Parent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gerardi B. De Van Swieten ... Commentaria in omnes aphorismos Hermanni Boerhaave de cognoscendis, et durandis morbis. (Venetiis : Typis J.B. Pasquali, 1761), by Gerard Swieten and Herman Boerhaave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Des . Erasmi Rot . Apophthegmatum libri octo , cum primis frugiferi , denuo vigilanter ab ipso recogniti autore, non sine lucro nouae accessionis. Accessit eiusdem epistola, quae continet quomodo ei qui in Principum aula viuere decreuerit, vita componenda est ... (Antuerpiae : apud Ioan. Stelsium in scuto Burgundiae, 1540), by Desiderius Erasmus, Joannes Grapheus, and Jean Steelsius (page images at HathiTrust)
• The day-book of John Stuart Blackie, (London, G. Richards, 1901), by John Stuart Blackie and Archibald Stodart Walker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Floresta general. (Madrid : Imprenta de Fortanet, 1910-1911), by Melchor de Santa Cruz de Dueñas and Francisco Asensio y Mejorado (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Denksprüche für's Leben von unsern Classikern. (Hildburghausen : Druck vom Bibliographischen Institute, [183-?]) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon : or Many things in few words : addressed to those who think / (London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821-22), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pansies from French gardens / (Chicago : Browne's Bookstore, 1911), by Henry Attwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Okřídlená slova / (V Karlíně : Nakl. "Vesmiru", 1921), by Jan Voborník (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tausend-- ein Gedanke : Aphorismen für Geist und Herz / (Dresden : H. Weiss, [1904]), by Heinrich Weiss (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Parrhasiana, ou, Pensées diverses sur des matiéres de critique, d'histoire, de morale et de politique : avec la défense de divers ouvrages de Mr. L.C. / (Amsterdam : H. Schelte, 1701), by Jean Le Clerc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Menagiana, ou, Les bons mots et remarques critiques, historiques, morales, et d'erudition / (A Amsterdam : Chez E. van Harrevelt, MDCCLXII [1762]), by Gilles Ménage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Flores omnivm penè doctorvm, qvi cùm in theologia, tum in philosophia hactenus claruerunt: (Lvgdvni : Apud Gulielmum Rouillium, 1558), by Thomas Hibernicus (page images at HathiTrust)
• A szólásokról. Adalék a szóláshasonlatok, szólásmódok és közmondások elméletéhez. (Budapest, Magyar Nyelvtudományi Társaság, 1910), by Vilmos Tolnai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Böcker och vandringar : aforismer, dikter, essays / (Malmö : Aktiebolaget Framtidens förlag, 1910), by Vilhelm Ekelund (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Polonius : a collection of wise saws and modern instances (Portland, Maine : Thomas B. Mosher, 1901), by Edward FitzGerald, contrib. by Thomas Bird Mosher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorisms and reflections : conduct, culture and religion / (Chicago : A. C. McClurg & co., 1901), by John Lancaster Spalding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Athenaevs = Athēnaiou Deipnosophis[t]ou ... (Venetiis : Apvd Aldvm, et Andream socervm, Mense Avgvsto, 1514), by of Naucratis Athenaeus, Markos Mousouros, and Aldo Manuzio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les sentences dans la poésie grecque d'Homère à Euripide / (Paris : Société nouvelle de librairie et d'édition, 1903), by Trumbull Stickney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kant - Aussprüche. (Leipzig, Ernst Wunderlich, 1901), by Immanuel Kant, ed. by Raoul Richter (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kango kogen jukugo daijirin / (Ōsaka : Aoki Sūzandō, Meiji 36 [1903]), by Bimyō Yamada (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thoughts / (Grafton, Mass. : Ivan Panin, 1899), by Ivan Panin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raccolta di varj motti brighelleschi, arguti, allegorici, e satirici ad uso del teatro / (Torino : Presso i fratelli Reycends libraj : e Ignazio Soffietti stampatore, 1794), by Atanasio Zannoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raccolta di varj motti arguti, allegorici, e satirici, ad uso del teatro / ([Venice? : s.n., 1787?]), by Atanasio Zannoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Sammlungen der Spruchverse des Publilius Syrus, (Leipzig, B.G. Teubner, 1877), by Wilhelm Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raccolta di motti brighelleschi arguti, allegorici e satirici di Atanasio Zannoni, comico / (Torino : Reycend e compa., 1807), by Atanasio Zannoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Metron. (Stockholm, A. Bonnier, [1918]), by Vilhelm Ekelund (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mishbetset ha-peninim : tiḳbotset mishle, maʼamare ṿe-sipure ḥokhmah u-musar ... me-iti Lipman Naizaṭts. (Ṿarsha : Bi-defus shel Ts.Y. Bomberg, 1854), by Lipman Naizaṭts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cream of wit; classified dictionary of inspiration from the masters of oratory, literature, and philosophy. (Sebring, Fla., [1953]), by Rod Arkell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rips and raps, (New York, F.A. Stokes Company, [1903]), by Lisle de Vaux Matthewman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selections for autograph and writing albums. (New York : Charles A. Lilley, 1879) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tracings; or, A reflection of nature. (New York, The Century co., 1896), by Effie Scott O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Seven seventy seven sensations. (Boston, Mass., The author, 1897), by James Lendall Basford (page images at HathiTrust)
• A thousand flashes of French wit, wisdom, and wickedness / (New York : D. Appleton, c1880, t. p. 1889), by J. comp De Finod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tausend Gedanken des Collaborators. (Berlin, A. Hofmann, 1875), by Berthold Auerbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Short sayings of great men. With historical and explanatory notes, (Boston, J.R. Osgood & Company, 1882), by Samuel Arthur Bent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epigrams : phrases and philosophies for the use of the young / (Boston : C. T. Brainard, 1909), by Oscar Wilde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wit and wisdom of George Eliot ; (Boston : Roberts, 1882, c1873), by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medical lectures and aphorisms / (London : Henry Frowde : Hodder & Stoughton, 1908), by Samuel Gee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altfranzosische Sprichwörter und Sentenzen : aus den höfischen Kunstepen über antike Sagenstoffe und aus einigen didaktischen Dichtungen nebst einer Untersuchung über Sprichwörtervarianten ... / (Borna-Leipzig : R. Noske, 1905), by Fritz Schepp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Altenglische Spruchweisheit. Alt- und mittelenglischen Autoren entnommen. ([Wien, Verlag der Staats-Realschule, 1897]), by Leon Kellner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Short sayings of great men. With historical and explanatory notes, (Boston, J. R. Osgood, 1882), by Samuel Arthur Bent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mivḥar ha-peninim / (Ṿilna : Bi-defus H. Dṿorzets, 635 [1875]), by Ibn Gabirol and Yehuda Leyb ben Yaʻaḳov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Floresta general. (Madrid : [Sociedad de Biblio̲filos Madrilen̲os], 1910-1911), by Bernardino Ferna̲ndez de Velasco y Pimentel Fri̲as, Melchor de. Floresta espan̲ola Santa Cruz de Dueñas, Francisco Asensio y Mejorado, and Pablo Oyanguren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The opinion shop / (London : Gay and Hancock, [1911]), by Hildric Davenport (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hints on conversation / (London : Sold by F.C. and J. Rivington ... Printed by Messrs. Trewman and Co., Exeter, 1819), by Laurent Bordelon (page images at HathiTrust)
• A thousand flashes of French wit, wisdom, and wickedness. (New York : D. Appleton, 1902), by J. De Finod (page images at HathiTrust)
• Calendar of customs, superstitions, weather-lore, popular sayings, and important events connected with the county of Somerset. ([n.p.], 1920), by Somerset County Herald and William George Willis Watson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Self defense; critique - esthétique. ([Paris : Imprimerie littéraire], 1919), by Pierre Reverdy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The way to wealth / (Nottingham : Printed by C. Sutton, Bridlesmith-Gate, [ca.1800?]), by Benjamin Franklin (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Octavum renata, renovata, ac longe ornatius etiam, quàm unquam antea, exculta Sphinx theologico-philosophica : promens ac proponens pia, erudita, arguta ac festiva aenigmata sive scrupos, ex variis, & quamplurimis, tum sacris, tum profanis, authoribus sedulò comportatos, qui mirificè faciunt ad comparandam sapientiam, ad exercenda, acuenda & alenda liberalia ingenia, ad formanda judicia, ingenuamqúe delectationem philologorum omnium / ([Herborn? : s.n., 1621?]), by Johann Heidfeld and Albert Szenczi Molnár (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Fiore di filosofi e di molti savi, attribuito a Brunetto Latini; (Bologna, G. Romagnoli, 1865), ed. by Antonio Cappelli, contrib. by Brunetto Latini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquity : or The wise instructor. Being a collection of the most valuable admonitions and sentences, compendiously put together, from an infinite variety of the most celebrated Christian and heathen writers, divine, moral historical, poetical and political. (York : Printed for J. Brooks, the editor, by N. Nickson, 1773), by Jonathan Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• So spricht das volk. Volksthumliche redensarten. (Berlin, E. Schotte & Co., 1860), by Franz Sandvoss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorisms on man, manners, principles & things... (Portsmouth [N.H.] Printed at the Oracle office for the author, 1810), by Joseph Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
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• La langue : on connoistra en quoi consiste l'utilité de cet ouvrage, par la lecture des avertissemens qui le précedent / (A Paris : Chez Urbain Coustellier ... : Et chez Claude Prud'homme ..., 1707), by Laurent Bordelon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximas, conselhos moraes, pensamentos, memorias, sentimentos nobres e proverbios. (Hongkong, Typ. de Noronha, 1863), by Matthias Da Luz Soares (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorismes politiques, pensées morales et philosophiques de l'empereur Napoléon; (Londres, T. C. Newby, 1848), by Emperor of the French Napoleon I and James Alexander Manning, ed. by Caliste Auguste de Godde de Liancourt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Petit volume contenant quelques apperçus des hommes et de la société. (Paris, Deterville, 1818), by Jean Baptiste Say (page images at HathiTrust)
• The economy of human life ... (Hawick, Printed and sold by R. Armstrong, 1814), by Robert Dodsley and John Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Laconics : or, The best words of the best authors. / (Philadelphia : Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon, or, Many things in a few words : addressed to those who think / (New-York : printed by S. Marks, 1824), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
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• The management of the tongue, under the following very important and useful heads: conversation--babbler--silent man--witty man--droll--jester. (Boston, Published by Isaiah Thomas, 1814), by Laurent Bordelon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moral sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman slave; from the Latin, (Cleveland, O., L.E. Bernard & co., [etc.], 1856), by Publius Syrus and Darius Lyman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Koran: or, Essays, sentiments, characters, and callimachies, of Tri juncta in uno, M.N.A. or Master of no arts. (Vienna, Printed for R. Sammer, 1798), by Richard Griffith, Richard Griffith, and Laurence Sterne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Select remains of the Rev. John Mason, A.M. of London. Containing a variety of devout and useful sayings, on divers subjects, dijested under proper heads. (Salem, N.Y., Printed by Dodd & Rumsey, for the Female Society, 1806), by John Mason and N.Y.) Female Society in Salem for Promoting Religious Knowledge (Salem (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorisms and reflections: a miscellany of thought and opinion. (London, J. Murray, 1843), by William Benton Clulow (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Gems of thought; being a collection of more than 1000 choice selections or aphorisms. (New York, Appleton, 1880), by Charles Northend (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorisms on men, manners, principles and things ... Physiognomy, a poem: and the Blessings of poverty. (Boston, Print. by J. Howe, 1823), by Joseph Bartlett (page images at HathiTrust)
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• La sapienza dei secoli; dizionario di proverbi, consigli, sentenze, ammaestramenti. (Milano, A. Vallardi, [Pref. 1907]), by Antonio Tonioni (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• A cyclopaedia of illustrations of moral and religious truths; consisting of definitions, mataphors, similes, emblems, contrasts, analogies, statistics, synonyms, anecdotes, etc., etc. (London, E. Stock, 1865), by John Bate (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Aphorisms, opinions, and reflections of the late Dr. Parr : with a sketch of his life ... (London : J. Andrews, 1826), by Samuel Parr, ed. by E. B. H. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorisms on men, manners, principles and things ... (Portsmouth [N. H] Printed at the Oracle office for the author, 1810), by Joseph Barlett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Country town sayings; a collection of paragraphs from the Atchison globe, (Topeka, Kan., Crane & Company, 1911), by E. W. Howe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Paradojas y verdades (Madrid, Est. Tipogrf̀ico "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra", 1898), by Emanuel Wertheimer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aphorismes de M. Mesmer, dictés à l'assemblée de ses éleves, & dans lesquels on trouve ses principes sa théorie & les moyens de magnétiser ... Ouvrage mis au jour par M. Caullet de Veaumorel. (Paris, 1785), by Franz Anton Mesmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laconics : or Instructive miscellanies, selected from the best authors, ancient and modern ... (Philadelphia :, 1827), by A general reader, illust. by Alexander Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Die deutschen Sprichwörtersammlungen nebst Beiträgen zur Characteristik der Meusebachschen Bibliothek. Eine bibliographische Skizze (Leipzig, T.O. Weigel, 1852), by Julius Zacher (page images at HathiTrust)
• Auswahl der schönsten Denk- und Sittensprüche, Sprüchwörter, Räthsel, Buchstabenwechsel, Grabschriften &c. : aus lateinischen Dichtern u. Prosaikern gezogen : ein nützliches Buch für die lateinische Schuljugend, wohl auch für Erwachsene brauchbar / (Nürnberg : F. Campe, 1842), by Eucharius Ferdinand Christian Oertel (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Sefer Åšekhel á¹­ov : ha-mekhil be-ḳirbo raÊ»yonot musariyim gevohim ... Ê»al pi yesode ha-Torah ṿeha-emunah Ê»im haÊ»taḳah zshargonit /, by B. J. Sack (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Phrases and philosophies for the use of the young / (London : [Leonard Smithers], 1903 [i.e. 1906]), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Leonard C. Smithers, illust. by Aubrey Beardsley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Petit volume contenant quelques aperçus des hommes et de la société. (Paris, Guillaumin, 1839), by Jean Baptiste Say (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon; or, Many things in few words, addressed to those who think. (New York, E. Kearny, [1836?]), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia critica Catoniana : per singulorum seriem consuetam Dionysii Catonis Distichorum ex ordine deducta : cui praemittuntur Maximi Planudis Metaphrasis Graeca, cum castigationibus Josephi Scaligeri ... : itemque Desiderii Erasmi Concinna expositio : adnexae sunt ... Barthi, Opiti, Daumi, Wachi, Boxhorni, Cannegieteri, Withofi, & Arntzeniorum fratrum Animadversiones selectae : addita ... Distichorum cuique Nova paraphrasis. (Amstelædami : apud F. Houttuyn, 1759), by Desiderius Erasmus, Joseph Juste Scaliger, and Maximus Planudes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The essayes or counsels, civill and morall of Francis Bacon : First published in 1597; newely written in 1625 / (New York : Dutton, 1900), by Francis Bacon and Henry Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Meditations of a mean man ... (New York, Dodge, [c1912]), by Walter Pulitzer, illust. by F. J Schwankovsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character and conduct; a book of helpful thoughts by great writers of past and present ages, (Liverpool, H. Young & Sons [etc., etc.], 1905), ed. by Constance M. Whishaw (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Diccionario de las metáforas y refranes de la lengua castellana. (Barcelona, Estab. tip. de N. Ramirez, 1876), by José Musso y Pontes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes (London, A. L. Humphreys, 1906), by Emperor of the French Napoleon I and Caliste Auguste Godde de Liancourt, trans. by James Alexander Manning (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliographie des ouvrages publiés sous le nom d'ana; accompagnée de notes critiques, historiques et littéraires; (Bruxelles, Impr. de Delevingne & Callewaert, 1839), by Jean Pie Namur (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libro de los libros : ó, Ramillete de máximas, pensamientos y dichos sentenciosos agudos ó memorables / (Madrid : La Illustracíon, 1847), by Pedro Felipe Monlau (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Nouveau manuel complet du moraliste, ou, Pensées et maximes instructives, pour tous les âges de la vie; recueillies des meilleurs auteurs, tant anciens que modernes, (Paris, Roret, 1838), ed. by Victor François Tremblay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hugsvinns-mál, ásamt þeirra látinska frumriti, (Videyar Klaustri, H. Helgason, 1831), by Hallgrímur Scheving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les incertitudes de l'heure présente [electronic resource] ; réflexions sur la politique, les guerres, les alliances, le droit, la morale, les religions, les philosophies, etc. (Paris : E. Flammarion, 1923), by Gustave Le Bon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 1. Catonis disticha de moribus, 2. Dicta insignia septem sapientum Graeciae, 3. Mimi publiani, sive, Senecae proverbia, Anglo Latina. Cato item Grammatice interpretatus Latinis & vernaculis vocibus pari ordine, sed diversis ut intelligant ... (London, Printed by J. Wilde, 1719) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The mental spark plug, (New York, Silent Partner Company, [c1923]), by Fred De Witt Van Amburgh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitāb badāyiʻ al-ḥikam / ([Cairo : ʻA.Y. al-Jardilī, 18--]), by ʻAlī Yūsuf Jardilī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Laconics; or, the best works of the best authors. (London, C. Tilt, 1840), by John Timbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Questions du temps et problèmes d'autrefois. Pensées sur l'histoire, la vie sociale, la littérature. Cours du Collége de France. <1841-1867> (Paris : G. Baillière, 1867), by Philarète Chasles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rabbinnische Anthologie, oder, Sammlung von Erzählungen, Sprichwörtern, Weisheitsregeln, Lehren und Meinungen der alten Hebräer / (Breslau : M. Friedländer, 1835), by R. J. Fürstenthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polonius : a collection of wise saws and modern instances. (London : W. Pickering, 1852), by Edward FitzGerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lacon, or, Many things in few words : addressed to those who think / (New York : C.P. Fessenden, 1832), by C. C. Colton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's Gedanken und Maximen : Lichtstrahlen aus seinen Werken / (Leipzig : F. A. Brockhaus, 1871), by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg and Eduard Grisebach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorisms for the year (New York [Press of J. J. Little & co.], 1895), by Alice Wellington Rollins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer Mivḥar ha-peninim = : Das Buch Mibchar ha-peninim / (Berlin : [s.n.], 1842), by Ibn Gabirol, Ahron Dessau, and ca. 1270-ca. 1340 Jedaiah ben Abraham Bedersi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ploutarchou, Apophthegmata vasileōn kai stratēgōn : Apophthegmata Lakōnika : Ta palaia tōn Lakedaimoniōn epitēdeumata : Apophthegmata Lakainōn = Plutarchi, Apophthegmata regum et imperatorum : Apophthegmata Laconica : Antiqua Lacedæmoniorum instituta : Apophthegmata Lacænarum. (Londini : apud G. Darres, & C. Dubosc, 1741), by Plutarch and Michael Maittaire (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shekel hakodesh (the Holy shekel) : to which is added Yesod hayirah (The foundation of religious fear) / (London : Oxford University Press, 1919), by Joseph Kimḥi and Hermann Gollancz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• For the gaiety of nations. Fun and philosophy from the American newspaper humorists, (New York : Dodge Pub. Co., [1909]), by Wallace de Groot Cecil Rice (page images at HathiTrust)
• The birthday souvenir /, by lithographer Ashbee & Dangerfield, contrib. by Griffith and Farran, illust. by Samuel Stanesby (page images at HathiTrust)
• Folk-lore (obra postuma) ... (Barcelona, Tip. "L'Avenç,", 1907), by Jacinto Verdaguer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Weisheits-Sprüche und Witzreden aus Johann Georg Hamann's und Immanuel Kant's sämmtlichen Schriften auserlesen und alphabetisch geordnet, (Amberg, C. F. Müller, 1828), by Johann Georg Hamann, Thaddä Anselm Rixner, and Duke University. Library. Jantz Collection. German Baroque Literature (page images at HathiTrust)
• One man's philosophy. ([Port Washington, N. Y., c1954]), by Frederick Woodson Lewis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The thought arouser / (New York : Silent Partner, c1929), by Fred De Witt Van Amburgh (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aphorisms of the Three Threes / (Chicago : Charles H. Kerr, 1887, c1886), by Three Threes (Club), ed. by Edward Owings Towne (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay towards a collection of books relating to proverbs, emblems, apophthegms, epitaphs and ana, being a catalogue of those at Keir. (London, Priv. print., 1860), by William Stirling Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pearls; or, The world's laconics. Being choice thoughts of the best authors, in prose and poetry. (Boston, B.B. Russell; Philadelphia, Quaker-City Publishing House; [etc., etc.], 1872), by Tryon Edwards (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some people / (Monmouth, Ill. : Howard Jane, 1915), by Mose Allen and J. H. Jayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar short sayings of great men, with historical and explanatory notes. (Detroit, Gale Research Co., 1968), by Samuel Arthur Bent (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hécatomgraphie, 1540 / ([s.l.] : H. Champion, 1905), by Gilles Corrozet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Maximes spirituelles avec des explications. (Paris, R. Ruffet & Cie., 1872), by Jean Nicolas Grou (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pensées / (Genève : Georg & Co., 1899), by Franc̜ois Frédéric Roget (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book of good cheer : "a little bundle of cheery thoughts" / (New York : Algonquin Publishing Co., [193-?]), by Edwin Osgood Grover (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Epigrams & aphorisms, (Boston, J. W. Luce, 1905), by Oscar Wilde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pitschens dits morels; vertieus dal frances in romaunsch d'Engiadina ota. (Genevra, stampo tres C. Gruaz, 1834), by B. Robbi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Philosophische Aphorismen nebst einigen Anleitungen zur philosophischen Geschichte. (Leipzig, Schwickert, 1776-1782), by Ernst Platner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vermischte unphysiognomische Regeln zur Menschen und Selbstkenntniss / ([Zurich? : s.n.], 1788 [i.e. 1789]), by Johann Caspar Lavater (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimen e litteris orientalibus, exhibens T̈aālibīi Syntagma dictorum brevium et acutorum, quod ex codice ms. Bibliothecae Leidensis (Lugduni Batavorum, S. & J. Luchtmans, 1844), by ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʻālibī and Josua Johannes Philippus Valeton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rabbinnische Anthologie, oder, Sammlung von Erzählungen, Sprichwörtern, Weisheitsregeln, Lehren und Meinungen der alten Hebräer / (Breslau : M. Friedländer, 1834), by R. J. Fürstenthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Salomo, oder Lehren der Weisheit ... (Winterthur, Steiner, 1785), by Johann Caspar Lavater (page images at HathiTrust)
• Barby Coey's philosophy. What are we here for, and what is it all about? A series of epigrammatic reflections on the closing of the 19th century. (New York, Brittannica Publ. House, [c1894]), by William Fennimore Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les sentences dans la poésie grecque d'Homère à Euripide / (Paris : G. Bellais, 1903), by Trumbull Stickney (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aforismos políticos, escritos en una de las lenguas del norte de la Europa por un filósofo, (Mexico, D.Mariano Ontiveros, 1822), trans. by Juan Antonio Llorente (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hécatomgraphie de Gilles Corrozet : libraire parisien (1540) chez Denys Janot / ([Paris] : H. Champion, 1905), by Gilles Corrozet and Charles Oulmont (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das buch der bücher. (Teschen, K. Prochaska, 1873), by Leopold Auspitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remaines of a greater work, concerning Britaine, the inhabitants thereof, their languages, names, surnames, empreses, wise speeches, poësies, and epitaphs. (At London, Printed by G. E. for Simon Waterson, 1605), by William Camden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes et réflexions morales, extraites de La Bruyere. (A Paris, Impr. de Monsieur, 1781), by Jean de La Bruyère and J. B. A. Suard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sprüche, mit und Glosse. Zur Unterhaltung für die Edlen im Lande ... (München, J.J. Lentner, 1816), by Johann Michael Sailer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Introduction to the art of thinking. (Edinburgh, Printed for W. Creech and T. Caddell, 1789), by Henry Home Kames (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les incertitudes de l'heure présente; réflexions sur la politique, les guerres, les alliances, le droit, la morale, les religions, les philosophies, etc. (Paris, E. Flammarion, 1923), by Gustave Le Bon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Specimen e litteris orientalibus [microform] : exhibens T̈aālibīi Syntagma dictorum brevium et acutorum quod ex codice ms. Bibliothecae Leidensis Arabice / (Lugduni Batavorum : S. & J. Luchtmans, 1844), by ʻAbd al-Malik ibn Muḥammad Thaʻālibī and Josua Johannes Philippus Valeton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tausend Sprüche. (Halle, J. Fricke, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Valesiana, ou, Les pensées critiques, historiques et morales et les poesies latines de monsieur de Valois / (A Amsterdam : Chez Florentin & Pierre Delaulne, 1694), by Adrien de Valois, Charles de Valois, and Louis Cousin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der teutschen Scharpfsinnige kluge Sprüch, Apophthegmata genannt, (Strassburg, Bey Josiæ Riheln seel. Erben, 1639), by Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorismen über die Kunst; als Einleitung zu Aphorismen über Organonomie, Physik, Psychologie und Antropologie. (Koblenz : Lassaulx, 1804), by Joseph von Görres (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apophthegmatum sacrorum loci communes : ex sacris ecclesiasticis, & secularibus scriptoribus collecti, iuxta alphabeti ordinem digesti, & in codicem relati, Simonis Govlartii Silvanectini operâ; accessit auctorum & capitum index. ([Geneva] : Excudebat Iacobus Stoer, MDXCII [1592]), by Simon Goulart, Théodore de Bèze, Johannes Sleidanus, Desiderius Erasmus, and Jacob Stoer (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Dionysii Catonis Disticha de moribus ad filium : praeter sedulam Variantis Lectionis per omnia Conlationem, lectissimis etiam adornata Flosculis Poëticis / (Amstelaedami : Apud F. Houttuyn, 1759) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le guide du bonheur; ou, Recueil de pensées, maximes et prières ... choisies ... (Paris, Rousseau [etc.], 1840), ed. by Benjamin Delessert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libro de los libros,ó, Ramillete de máximas, pensamientos y dichos sentenciosos agudos ó memorables / (Barcelona : S. Veguer, 1841), by O. E. Moralinto (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Mir i zhiznʹ. (Vilʹna : Tip. A.G. Syrkina, 1891), by J. Steinberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Deutsche Reime : Inschriften des 15. Jahrhunderts und der folgenden / (Berlin : Weidmann, 1885), by Hans Draheim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Menschliches, allzumenschliches : ein Buch für freie Geister / (Leipzig : E.W. Fritzsch, 1886), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Insunt Sexti ... sententiae cum appendicibus / (Bonnae : Universitate Fridericia Guilelmia Rhenana, 1891-1893), by Antonio Elter (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Goldkörner aus den schriften heiliger und gottesfürchtiger männer : eine sammlung religiöser sentenzen für das leben ... (Einsiedeln : Gebr. K. & N. Benziger, 1882), by Otto Gisler (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Les pensées d'une reine / (Paris : C. Lévy, 1882), by Carmen Sylva and Louis Ulbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Otto von Guericke. biographische ergänzungen. I : Otto von Gericke's sammung latnischer, französischer, italienischer, holländischer und deutscher sinnsprüche. Nach einer im Stadtarchiv zu Magdeburg aufgefundenen original-aufzeichnung / (Magdeburg, E. Baensch jun., 1885), by Otto von Guericke and Karl Paulsiek (page images at HathiTrust)
• British reason in English rhyme, (London, K. Paul, Trench, 1889), by Henry Halford Vaughan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Balthasar Gracians Handorakel und Kunst der Weltklugheit, (Leipzig: Philip Reclam, [1891]), by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Vincencio Juan de Lastanosa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Familiar short sayings of great men, (London : Chatto and Windus, 1887), by Samuel Arthur Bent (page images at HathiTrust)
• Worte des Herzens, (Leipzig : W. Fiedler, [1894]), by Johann Caspar Lavater and Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aforysmy Ivana A. Fedorovycha., by Ivan A. Fedorovych (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Aphorisms : an address delivered before the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, November 11, 1887 / (London ; New York : Macmillan, 1887), by John Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The tin trumpet, or Heads and tales, for the wise and waggish : to which are added, poetical selections / (Philadelphia : E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836), by Horace Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quelque six mille proverbes et aphorismes usuels empruntés à notre âge et aux siècles derniers, (Paris, Julien, Lanier et cie, 1856), by Charles Cahier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Laconics, or, New maxims of state and conversation : relating to the affairs and manners of the present times : in three parts. (London : Printed for Thomas Hodgson ..., 1701), by Thomas Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Sylva; or, The wood: being a collection of anecdotes, dissertations, characters, apophthegms, original letters, bons mots, and other little things... (London : T. Payne, and son, 1786), by Ralph Heathcote (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apophthegms of the ancients: being an historical collection of the most celebrated, elegant, pithy and prudential sayings of all the illustrious personages of antiquity. Expressing their philosophical, civil, and military notions; representing their humour, genius, wit, and manners; and exhibiting a choice variety of curious and improving anecdotes of their lives. (London, A. Millar, 1753), by Desiderius Erasmus (page images at HathiTrust)
• The day-book of John Stuart Blackie, (London : Richards, 1902), by John Stuart Blackie and Archibald Stodart Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• A thousand flashes of French wit, wisdom, and wickedness. (New York, D. Appleton and company, 1881), by J. De Finod (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Das apophthegma; literarhistorische studien, (Wien, Leipzig, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky a.g. [etc.], 1924), by Wilhelm Gemoll (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Otto von Guericke's sammlung lateinischer, französischer, italienischer, holländischer und deutscher sinnsprüche. Nach jüngst im archiv der Stadtbibliothek zu Magdeburg aufgefundener originalaufzeichnung. (Magdeburg, E. Baensch jun., 1885), by Otto von Guericke and Karl Paulsiek (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of select aphorisms and maxims; with several historical observations: extracted from the most eminent authors. (London : Printed by E. Cave, 1748), by Charles Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Esquisses et sentences / (Paris : Perrin et cie., 1891), by Hyacinthe Charencey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Apophthegmata ex probatis graecae latinaéqve lingvae scriptoribvs ([Genevae] excudebat I. Stoer, 1609), by Konrad Lykosthenes and Desiderius Erasmus (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Aphorisms, (Oxford, The Clarendon press, 1930), by F. H. Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Lifetime speaker's encyclopedia. (Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1962), by Jacob M. Braude (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wit and wisdom of the United Nations : proverbs and apothegms on diplomacy ; two parts in one volume. (United Nations, N.Y., 1961), ed. by Victor S. M. De Guinzbourg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sprichwörter und sentenzen der altfranzösischen Artus- und abenteuerromane. (Marburg, N. G. Elwert, 1886), by Alfred Kadler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Adagios portuguĕses reduzidos a lugares communs pelo licenciado Antonio Delicado (Lisboa, Livraria universal, 1923), by Antonio Delicado, ed. by Luís Chaves (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Katalog dzieł treści przysłowiowej składających bibljotekę Ignacego Bernsteina ... (Warszawa, Czcionkami drukarni W. Drugulina w Lipsku, 1900), by Ignatz Bernstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Parrhasiana. (A Amsterdam : Chez les héritiers d'Antoine Schelte, 1699-1701), by Jean Le Clerc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shekel hakodesh (the holy shekel). : The metrical work of Joseph Kimchi,. (London, New York, : Oxford University Press, 1919), by Joseph Kimḥi and Hermann Gollancz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sefer mivḥar ha-peninim : bi-melitsot ha-ḥakhamim ha-ḳadmonim, u-mishle filosofim ha-rishonim....ṿe-neʻataḳ me-ḥadash mi-leshon ha-ḳodesh li-leshon Ashkenaz / (Franḳfurṭ : Gedruḳṭ Fun Yohan Anṭon Ḳriger, [1794]), by Ibn Gabirol and Aaron ben Zevi Hirsch (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Life's questionings; a book of experience, (London, Methuen & co., [1905]), by William Romaine Paterson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Antiquity; or The wise instructer. Being a collection of the most valuable admonitions and sentences, compendiously put together, from an infinite variety of the most celebrated Christian and heathen writers, divine, moral, historical, poetical, and political. (Bristol, Printed for J. Brooks the editor, by S. Farley, 1770), by Jonathan Brooks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sprichwörter, sprichwörtliche redensarten und sentenzen bei den provenzalischen lyrikern. (Marburg, N. G. Elwert, 1888), by Eugen Cnyrim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das buch der bücher. (Wien [etc.] K. Prochaska, [1902]), by Leopold Auspitz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Aphorisms from Latham / (Iowa City : Prairie Press, [1962]), by P. M. Latham and William B. Bean (page images at HathiTrust)
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• Pensées et sentences. ([Caen, Imp. H. Delesques, 1904]), by Hyacinthe Charencey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Stufen, eine entwickelung in aphorismen und tagebuchnotizen. (München, R. Piper & co., 1922), by Christian Morgenstern and Margareta Morgenstern (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Floresta general ... (Madrid [V. Suárez], 1910-11), by Bernardino Fernandez de Velasco Frias y de Uceda, Melchor de Santa Cruz de Dueñas, and Francisco Asensio y Mejorado (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Athēnaiou Deipnosophistai : Athenaei Deipnosophistae libri XV : cum rerum et scriptorum indicibus : ad optimorum librorum fidem accurate editi. (Lipsiae : Sumptibus Ottonis Holtze, 1868), by of Naucratis Athenaeus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral aphorisms in Arabic, and a Persian commentary in verse : translated from the originals: with specimens of Persian poetry: likewise additions to the author's Conformity of the Arabic and Persian with the English language / (London : Printed by S. Rousseau, 1805), by Stephen Weston and Caliph ʻAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quomodo oratores attici sententiis usi sint / (Lipsiae : Typis R. Noske, 1912), by Hans Framm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The historical wisdom of the ages and sages; collected and indexed in order of topics for convenient use and ready reference ... (Detroit : La Tour Printing Company, 1939), by J. B. Corliss (page images at HathiTrust)
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• The silence : thoughts on the silence and on various other subjects / (Battle Creek, Mich. : Woodcox & Fanner, c1928), by Benjamin F. Woodcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts about human animals, and other thoughts (with selected poems) (Battle Creek, Mich., Woodcox & Fanner, [c1907]), by Benjamin F. Woodcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book of familiar quotations / (Girard, Kan. : Haldeman-Julius Co., c1925), by Lloyd E. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• From Mrs. Harvey's scrap book. ([West Virginia? : The West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs?, 1938?]), by John Speed Harvey, West Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs, and General Federation of Women's Clubs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Moral and religious aphorisms. Collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in MDCCIII, (London, Printed for J. Payne, 1753), by Benjamin Whichcote, Samuel Salter, and Anthony Tuckney, ed. by John Jeffery (page images at HathiTrust)
• The apophthegms of the ancients: being an historical collection of the most celebrated, elegant, pithy and prudential sayings of all the illustrious personages of antiquity. (London, A. Millar, 1753), by Desiderius Erasmus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Naked truths and veiled allusions, (Philadelphia : Henry Altemus Co., c1902), by Minna Thomas Antrim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Truths brought home, (Philadelphia, Dunlap printing co., 1896), by Byron Langham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Darts, sparks, and fragments, (Washington, 1896), by Harry Sutphin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aphorisms and reflections; (Chicago, A. C. McClurg & co., 1901), by John Lancaster Spalding (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cahier B 1910 / ([Paris] : Gallimard, 1926), by Paul Valéry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bisogna far gl'italiani, (Firenze, Vallecchi, [1926]), by Massimo d' Azeglio and Marco 1885- Rossi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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• Honein ibn Ishâk, Sinnsprüche der Philosophen / (Berlin : S. Calvary, 1896), by 809?-873 Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī, Abraham Loewenthal, and Judah ben Solomon Harizi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Honein ibn Ishâk, Sinnsprüche der philosophen. (Berlin, S. Calvary & Co., 1896), by 809?-873 Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq al-ʻIbādī and Abraham Loewenthal (page images at HathiTrust)
• Remains concerning Britain / (London : John Russell Smith, 1870), by William Camden, Mark Antony Lower, and Thomas Moule, ed. by John Philipot (page images at HathiTrust)
• Polonius : a collection of wise saws and modern instances / (London : Alexander Moring Limited, The De La More Press, 1905), by Edward FitzGerald (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Charlas de café; pensamientos, anécdotas y confidencias, (Madrid, Juan Pueyo, 1920), by Santiago Ramón y Cajal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Georg Christoph Lichtenbergs Aphorismen : nach den handschriften / (Berlin : B. Behr, 1902-1908), by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Apophthegmes of Erasmus, (Boston, Lincolnshire, Robert Roberts, 1877), by Desiderius Erasmus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Brevia; short essays and aphorisms by the author of "Friends in council." (London : Bell and Daldy, 1871), by Arthur Helps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anecdotes and biography : including many modern characters in the circles of fashionable and official life, selected from the portfolios of a distinguished literary and political character, lately deceased, alphabetically arranged / (London : Printed by J.W. Myers for Crosby and Letterman and R. Pitkeathley, 1799), by Leman Thomas Rede (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kriegsaphorismen, für Europäer oder solche, die es werdern wollen. Ein Versuch zur geistigen Mobilisierung. (Bern : E. Kuhn, 1917), by Oscar Levy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Im zeichen des Steinbocks; aphorismen. (München, Georg Müller, 1909), by Isolde Kurz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ana ; ou, Collection de bons mots, contes, pensées détachées, traits d'histoire et anecdotes des hommes célebres : depuis la renaissance des lettres jusqu'à nos jours ; suivis d'un choix de propos joyeux, mots plaisans, réparties fines et contes a rire, tirées de différens recueils. (Amsterdam, et se trouve, à Paris : Belin, [1799]), by Jacques Losme de Monchesnay, Pierre Barral, Jacques Lenfant, Guy Marais, Nicolas Boileau Despréaux, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal Sévigné, Urbain Chevreau, Adrien de Valois, M. Charpentier, Bonaventure d' Argonne, Gilles Ménage, Pope Pius II, Poggio Bracciolini, Antoine Furetière, Pierre-Daniel Huet, Christophe-Jean-François Beaucousin, and M. Garnier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sorberiana, ou, Bon mots, recontres agreables, pensées judicieuses, et observations curieuses / (A Paris : Chez la Veuve Mabre-Cramoisy, M.DCCXXXII [1732]), by Samuel Sorbière and François Graverol (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maximes de Napoléon, (La Haye, M. Nijhoff, 1922-), by Emperor of the French Napoleon I and Karel Johannes Frederiks (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sand and foam; a book of aphorisms, (New York, A. a. Knopf, 1928, c1926), by Kahlil Gibran (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Ḥikam al-sanīyah wa-al-marāshif al-aqdasīyah, [1208, i.e. 1794]. ([1794]), by Muḥammad Maḥmūd ibn ʻAlī Dāmūnī and flourished 1794 Khiḍr ibn Yūsuf al-Nābulusī al-ʻAqrabānī, contrib. by flourished 1794 Muḥammad al-Khayyāṭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nesayihü'l-ebrar, [late 16th or early 17th century?]. ([1574-1620?]), by fl. 1574? Abdülkerim b. Mehmet, contrib. by Sultan of the Turks Abdülhamid II and fl. 1870 Mustafa Reşit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Golden thoughts of Carmen Sylva [pseud.], Queen of Roumania : Translated by permission by H. Sutherland Edwards. (London : J. Lane, [19--?]), by Queen of Rumania Carmen Sylva, Sutherland H. Edwards, and Queen of Rumania 1881-1916 Elizabeth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On active service : a book of golden thoughts / (London ; New York ; Hodder and Stoughton, [1918]), by Alexander Ketterson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A glass eye at a keyhole. (Philadelphia : Dorrance and company, [©1938]), by Mary Pettibone Poole (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De Gnomologiorum Graecorum historia atque origine commentatio. (Bonnae : E.C. Georgi Typographeo Academico, 1893-1895), by Anton Elter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alkhimii︠a︡ teatra / (Berlin : Academia, 1923), by S. Vermelʹ, illust. by Aleksandr Arnshtam (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Listen to this, (San Francisco : Coleman Cox publishing co., [c1922]), by Coleman Cox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historia Pitoresca: Palavras e frases celebres (in Portuguese), by Alfredo Campos (Gutenberg ebook)
• Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, contrib. by James Marsh (Gutenberg ebook)
• Herr Adam und Frau Eva (in German), by Alexander Engel (Gutenberg ebook)
• Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man, by Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg ebook)
• Arabian Wisdom: Selections and Translations from the Arabic, by John Wortabet (Gutenberg ebook)
• 圍爐夜話 (in Chinese), by Yongbin Wang (Gutenberg ebook)
• 幽夢影 (in Chinese), by Chao Zhang (Gutenberg ebook)
• Crankisms, by Lisle de Vaux Matthewman, illust. by Clare Victor Dwiggins (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stufen: Eine Entwickelung in Aphorismen und Tagebuch-Notizen (in German), by Christian Morgenstern (Gutenberg ebook)
• Old Mr. Dod's sayings (London : Printed by A.M. and R.R., MDCLXXVIII [1678]), by John Dod (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Apophthegmata. English ([London] : Excusum typis Ricardi Grafton, 1542 [September] Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum), by Desiderius Erasmus and Nicholas Udall (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Paroles remarquables, les bon mots, et les maximes des Orientaux. English (London : Printed for Richard Baldwin ..., 1695), by Antoine Galland (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Gleanings, or, A collection of some memorable passages, both antient and moderne many in relation to the late warre. (London : Printed by R. I., and to bee sold by William Raybould ..., 1651), by Robert Grove (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Aphorisms political by James Harrington. (London : Printed by J.C. for Henry Fletcher ..., 1659), by James Harrington (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• VVits labyrinth, or, A briefe and compendious abstract of most witty, ingenious, wise, and learned sentences and phrases together with some hundreds of most pithy, facetious and patheticall complementall expressions / collected, compiled and set forth for the benefit, pleasure or delight of all, but principally the English nobility and gentry by J.S., gent. (London : Printed for M. Simmons, 1648), by James Shirley (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The rich cabinet furnished with varietie of excellent discriptions, exquisite charracters, witty discourses, and delightfull histories, deuine and morrall. Together with inuectiues against many abuses of the time: digested alphabetically into common places. Wherevnto is annexed the epitome of good manners, exttracted from Mr. Iohn de la Casa, Arch-bishop of Beneuenta. (London : Printed by I[ohn] B[eale] for Roger Iackson and are to be sold at his shop neere Fleete Conduit, 1616), by fl. 1616 T. G., Thomas Gainsford, and Giovanni Della Casa (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Apophthegmes of the ancients taken out of Plutarch, Diogenes Laertius, Elian, Atheneus, Stobeus, Macrobius and others : collected into one volume for the benefit and pleasure of the ingenious. (London : Printed for William Cademan ..., 1683), by John Bulteel, Plutarch. Selections. English, and Diogenes Laertius (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The saints nosegay, or, A posie of 741 spirituall flowers both fragrant and fruitfull, pleasant and profitable / collected and composed by Samuel Clark. (London : Printed by I.D. for Henry Overton and are to be sold at his shop, 1642), by Samuel Clarke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The true idioma of the Italian tongue wherein is contained many choice sentences and dialogues in Italian and English : also delightful dialects and apophthegms taken out of a famous author : and other necessary things mentioned in the table ... / published by P.P., an Italian, and teacher of the Italian tongue ... (London : Printed by E.C. and are to be sold by H. Seile ... N. Brook ... and Peter Dring ..., 1660), by Pietro Paravicino and Lodovico Guicciardini (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Proverbs English, French, Dutch, Italian, and Spanish. All Englished and alphabetically digested.: By N.R. Gent. (London : Printed for Simon Miller at the Star in Pauls Church-yard, 1659), by N. R. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Old Mr. Dod's sayings. Welsh ([London? : s.n., 1688?]), by John Dod (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Selections. Welsh ([London? : s.n., 1693?]), by John Dod (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Aphorisms political.: By James Harrington. (London : printed by J.C. for Henry Fletcher, at the signe of the three Gilt Cups in St. Pauls Church-yard, [1659]), by James Harrington (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Words of peace or, Dr. Mantons last sayings: many of them taken from him on his death-bed, or observed on other remarkable occasions; tending very much to the edification of Christians. (London : Printed by A.P. and T.H. for P. Brooksby, at the Golden Ball in West-Smithfield, near the Hospital-Gate, 1677), by Thomas Manton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Delight and pastime, or, Pleasant diversion for both sexes consisting of good history and morality, witty jests, smart repartees, and pleasant fancies, free from obscene and prophane expressions, too frequent in other works of this kind, whereby the age is corrupted in a great measure, and youth inflamed to loose and wanton thoughts : this collection may serve to frame their minds to such flashes of wit as may be agreeable to civil and genteel conversation / by G.M. (London : Printed for J. Sprint ... and G. Conyers ..., 1697), by Guy Miege (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• An extracte of examples, apothegmes, and histories collected out of Lycosthenes, Brusonius and others ; translated into Englishe, and reduced into an alphabeticall order of common places, by A.P. (Imprinted at London : By Henry Bynneman, for Humfrey Toie, [1572]), by John Parinchef (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Flores intellectuales, or, Select notions, sentences, and observations collected out of several authors, and made publick, especially for the use of young scholars, entring into the ministry / by Matthew Barker ... (London : Printed by J. Astwood for John Dunton ..., 1691), by Matthew Barker (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• More cheap riches, or, Heavenly aphorismes viz. a third, or rather true first part of the pocket companion compleated : being 300 golden sayings more / faithfully copied out of the manuscripts of Mr. H.C. (that eminent and faithful servant of God, many years agoe deceased) by N.C. (London : Printed by D.M. for J. Rothwell ..., 1660), by Nathanaell Church (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Cheap riches, or, A pocket-companion made of five hundred proverbial aphorismes &c. as the next ensuinge page will more particularly notifie / by Natthanaell Church. (London : Printed by S.G. to be sold at the Beare and Fountain ..., 1657), by Nathanaell Church (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Theatre of wits ancient and modern attended with severall other ingenious pieces from the same pen [brace] viz. I. Faenestra in pectore, or, A century of familiar letters, II. Loves labyrinth: A tragi-comedy, III. Fragmenta poetica, or, Poetical diversions, IV. Virtus redivivi, a panegyrick on our late king Charles of ever blessed memory concluding with A panegyrick on His Sacred Majesties most happy return / by T.F. (London : Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for Thomas Basset, 1661), by Thomas Forde (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Old Mr. Dod's sayings; or, A posie gathered out of Mr. Dod's garden. Collected by R.T. (Cambridge [Mass.]: : Printed by Marmaduke Johnson., 1673), by John Dod (HTML at Evans TCP)
• Vermischte unphysiognomische Regeln. English ([New York] : London: printed. New-York: re-printed by T. and J. Swords, for Berry and Rogers, Hanover-Square., M,DCC,XC. [1790]), by Johann Caspar Lavater, Henry Fuseli, and Cornelius Tiebout, trans. by Henry Fuseli (HTML at Evans TCP)

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