Download or read book Dictionary of American Maxims written by David George Plotkin and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of American Maxims written by David Kin and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of American Maxims written by David Kin and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensive collection of aphorisms of fundamental American moral rules and principles on a variety of subjects. Over the course of centuries, humanity has set down an accumulation of acute and succinct wisdom. It has the potential to be valuable and reliable, if they should be consistent in putting into practice the precepts which the best minds of the species have bequeathed them. Homo sapiens are fast learners and equally speedy forgetters. Therefore, from time to time, they should be reminded of this beneficial wisdom. In Dictionary of American Maxims, author David Kin collects a wide array of bon mots (and some wisecracks) attributed to American minds ranging from President George Washington to newspaper gossip columnist Walter Winchell. Kin has organized a vast array of wise sayings alphabetically by subject from “Ability” to “Zoroaster.” This is rich fare, certain to inspire, educate, and entertain.
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Download or read book Dictionary of American Proverbs written by David George Plotkin and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of American Proverbs written by David Kin and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of American Proverbs written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans have a gift for coining proverbs. "A picture is worth a thousand words" was not, as you might imagine, the product of ancient Chinese wisdom -- it was actually minted by advertising executive Fred Barnard in a 1921 advertisement for Printer's Ink magazine. After all, Americans are first and foremost a practical people and proverbs can be loosely defined as pithy statements that are generally accepted as true and useful. The next logical step would be to gather all of this wisdom together for a truly American celebration of shrewd advice.A Dictionary of American Proverbs is the first major collection of proverbs in the English language based on oral sources rather than written ones. Listed alphabetically according to their most significant key word, it features over 15,000 entries including uniquely American proverbs that have never before been recorded, as well as thousands of traditional proverbs that have found their way into American speech from classical, biblical, British, continental European, and American literature. Based on the fieldwork conducted over thirty years by the American Dialect Society, this volume is complete with historical references to the earliest written sources, and supplies variants and recorded geographical distribution after each proverb.Many surprised await the reader in this vast treasure trove of wit and wisdom. Collected here are nuggets of popular wisdom on all aspects of American life: weather, agriculture, travel, money, business, food, neighbors, friends, manners, government, politics, law, health, education, religion, music, song, and dance. And, to further enhance browsing pleasure, the editors have provided a detailed guide to the use of the work. While it's true that many of our best known proverbs have been supplied by the ever-present "Anonymous," many more can be attributed to some very famous Americans, like Ernest Hemingway, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Mark Twain, J. Pierpont Morgan, Thomas Alva Edison, Abigail Adams, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, to name but a few offered in this fascinating collection.Who wouldn't want to know the origin of "the opera ain't over till the fat lady sings?" This uniquely American proverb and many more are gathered together in A Dictionary of American Proverbs. A great resource for students and scholars of literature, psychology, folklore, linguistics, anthropology, and cultural history, this endlessly intriguing volume is also a delightful companion for anyone with an interest in American culture.
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Download or read book A Dictionary of Latin and Greek Quotations Proverbs Maxims and Mottos Classical and Mediaeval written by Henry Thomas Riley and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cyclopedic Dictionary of Law written by Walter A. Shumaker and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dictionary of Latin Quotations Proverbs Maxims and Mottos Classical and Mediaeval written by Henry Thomas Riley and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Proverbs Maxims Folk Sayings written by Elmer Lewis Smith and published by Applied Arts Publishers. This book was released on 1968 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Books Relating to America written by Joseph Sabin and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of American and English Law written by Stewart Rapalje and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of American and English Law written by Stewart Rapalje and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Multilingual Dictionary of Maxims and Proverbs written by Panos Karagiorgos and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains 300 Greek maxims and proverbs accompanied by their counterparts in eight European languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Dutch, and Russian. The introduction relates the history, the origin, and the importance of proverbs; it also includes a short chapter on the use of proverbs in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Modern Greek literature. This book is a useful companion both for translators and interpreters; a vade mecum not only for them, but also for every learner of the above mentioned European languages.
Download or read book A Dictionary of American and English Law written by Stewart Rapalje and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
