proverbs

A collection of over five hundred adages, observations, proverbs, and other unofficial rules that govern life, organized alphabetically by speaker, from Lord Acton, who said, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely," to Zimmerman's Law of Complaints which states, "Nobody notices when things go right.".

Explains in simple terms what several popular proverbs and sayings mean.

Illustrates twenty well-known proverbs, from "Birds of a feather flock together" to "Every cloud has a silver lining.".

Explores the histories of a variety of everyday sayings known as maxims.

Contains twenty centuries-old proverbs, representing enduring values in Korean society, each with an illustration, and the proverb in English, romanized Korean, and Korean characters; followed by brief explanations of the proverbs.

Presents and explains over 1,500 celebrated expressions used in America, with a discussion of the origin of each proverb or saying, a list of variants, and examples of its use in newspapers, literature, magazines, television, and popular speech. Includes an index by main word and a bibliography.

Contains proverbs and riddles and explains what they are and that they are a part of folklore that tells us something about who we are and how we see the world.

Defines more than nine hundred allusions; each entry includes the term's history and pronunciation and contemporary examples of the word or phrase.

Extensive collection of American proverbs including thousands of proverbs that have never been recorded as well as traditional ones.