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The Penguin dictionary of proverbs / [edited by] Rosalind Fergusson and Jonathan Law.
LIBRA PN6405 F47 2000
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Proverbs.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 365 pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Other Title:
- Dictionary of proverbs
- Proverbs.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Penguin Books, 2000.
- Summary:
- Whether you are looking for a few wise words of advice, like 'Least said soonest mended', some trenchant observation, such as 'You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink,' or a common belief, such as 'A green Yule makes a fat churchyard', you will find them all in the newly revised and extended Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs. Entertaining and easy to use, it offers wit and wisdom to all.
- Contents:
- Absence 1
- Adversity 2
- Advice 4
- Ambition 6
- Anger 7
- Anticipation 9
- Appearance 10
- Asking 12
- Authority 13
- Badness 15
- Beauty 17
- Beginnings 19
- Believing 20
- Borrowing 21
- Breeding 22
- Building 24
- Change 25
- Character 27
- Children 28
- Choosing 31
- Cleanliness 32
- Commerce 32
- Company 34
- Conceit 35
- Conformity 36
- Conscience 37
- Contempt 38
- Contentment 38
- Corruption 40
- Country lore 42
- Courage 45
- Cowardice 46
- Crime 47
- Criticism 49
- Cruelty 50
- Cunning 51
- Danger 52
- Days 54
- Death 55
- Deceit 58
- Deeds 60
- Defamation 62
- Delay 63
- Deserving 64
- Destiny 65
- Devil 65
- Differences 66
- Diligence 68
- Discipline 70
- Dress 72
- Drinking 73
- Earliness 77
- Eating 78
- Education 81
- Endings 83
- Endurance 83
- Enemies 84
- England 85
- Envy 90
- Equality 90
- Experience 92
- Eyes 93
- Fame 95
- Familiarity 96
- Fear 96
- Fine arts 97
- Flattery 98
- Foolishness 99
- Foresight 102
- Forgiveness 103
- Friends 105
- Gain 109
- Gambling 110
- Giving 111
- Gluttony 113
- God 114
- Goodness 117
- Gossip 118
- Gratitude 120
- Greatness 121
- Greed 123
- Habit 125
- Happiness 125
- Haste 128
- Hatred 130
- Health 131
- Helping 133
- Honesty 134
- Honour 135
- Hope 136
- Hospitality 137
- Hunger 138
- Hypocrisy 139
- Idleness 141
- Ignorance 143
- Imperfection 143
- Inconvenience 145
- Inquisitiveness 145
- Justice 147
- Kindness 149
- Knowledge 150
- Lateness 152
- Law 152
- Lending 155
- Liberty 156
- Life 157
- Likelihood 158
- Love 159
- Loyalty 164
- Luck 165
- Lust 167
- Marriage 169
- Mind 175
- Miserliness 176
- Moderation 177
- Months 179
- Names 184
- Nature 184
- Necessity 185
- Neighbours 185
- News 186
- Obedience 188
- Occupations 188
- Old people 191
- Opportunity 193
- Optimism 194
- Parents 196
- Passion 197
- Patience 198
- Paying 199
- Peace 201
- People and places 201
- Perseverance 206
- Possession 207
- Poverty 208
- Praise 213
- Pride 214
- Promises 215
- Proverbs 216
- Quarrelling 217
- Regret 219
- Relations 220
- Religion 221
- Remedies 226
- Resolution 227
- Responsibility 227
- Revenge 229
- Royalty 230
- Sacrifice 233
- Safety 233
- Seasons 234
- Self 235
- Servants 237
- Shame 239
- Silence 240
- Similarity 241
- Skill 242
- Sleep 242
- Small things 244
- Solitude 245
- Sorrow 246
- Spending 249
- Strength 250
- Success 251
- Suffering 252
- Superstitions 253
- Talking 256
- Temptation 260
- Thrift 261
- Time 263
- Travel 265
- Trial 266
- Trouble-making 267
- Trust 268
- Truth 269
- Use 272
- War 273
- Weakness 274
- Wealth 275
- Weather 280
- Will 286
- Wisdom 288
- Women 290
- World 294
- Worry 295
- Worth 296
- Writing 297.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 1983.
- Includes index.
- "Market House Books Ltd."
- ISBN:
- 0140514783
- OCLC:
- 48774118
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