Download or read book War Proverbs and Maxims East and West written by Selwyn Gurney Champion and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 92 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 Based on the fieldwork conducted over thirty years by the American Dialect Society, this volume is complete with historical references to the earliest written sources, and supplies variants and recorded geographical distribution after each proverb.Many surprised await the reader in this vast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.
Download or read book The Politics of Proverbs written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how proverbs and to a lesser extent proverbial expressions, have played a significant role in political life during the 20th century. Takes as major examples the speeches and writings of Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, and Harry Truman to show how proverbs can be brought into the service of most any ideology. Also traces the use of proverbs and their cartoon analogues during the five decades of Cold War propaganda, and proverbial slurs against Native Americans and Asian Americans. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Behold the Proverbs of a People written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirteen chapters of this book comprise an intriguing and informative entry into the world of proverb scholarship, illustrating that proverbs have always been and continue to be wisdom's international currency. The first section of the book focuses on the field of paremiology (proverb studies) in general, the spread of Anglo-American proverbs in Europe, and the phenomenon of modern proverbs. The second section analyzes the use of proverbs in the world of politics, including a chapter on President Obama, while the third concentrates on the uses of proverbs in literature. The final section ends with detailed cultural studies of the origin, history, dissemination, use, function, and meaning of specific proverbs. Noted scholar Wolfgang Mieder shows that proverbs matter in culture, literature, and politics. Proverbs remain part and parcel of oral and written communication, and, he demonstrates, they deserve to be studied from a range of viewpoints. While various chapters deal with a variety of issues and approaches, they cohere through a rhetorical perspective that looks at the text, texture, and context of proverbs as speech acts that make a noteworthy impact on culture and society. Whether proverbs appear in everyday speech, on the radio, on television, in films, on the pages of newspapers or magazines, in advertisements, in literary works, or in political speeches, they serve as formulaic verbal devices to add authoritative weight through tradition, convention, and wisdom.
Download or read book The Wisdom of Many written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 20 studies of proverbs first published in 1981 by Garland. Among the general topics are structure, oral transmission, and practical reasoning. Proverbs examined in detail include African, Yiddish, Shakespeare's, Chinese, Irish, and those used in advertising. Includes an addenda to the bibliography. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book American Proverbs written by Wolfgang Mieder and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1989 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study represents the first comprehensive treatise of American proverbs, each chapter including an interpretative essay, a special bibliography, and numerous texts in contexts. The fifteen chapters deal with the proverb in general, American proverbs in particular, proverbs of the immigrants, proverbs current in the various states, proverbs of the Native Americans, Afro-American proverbs, Benjamin Franklin's «proverbs», proverbs in prose literature, proverb poems, proverbs in popular songs, wellerisms, proverbs in comics and cartoons, proverbs in advertisements, and a special final chapter on the modern American proverb «Different strokes for different folks». A large bibliography, three indices, and forty illustrations are included.
Download or read book War horseiana Or An Authentic Report of the Sayings and Doings of the War horse and His Ponies written by Timothy Watchem (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Sayings of Martin Luther King Jr written by Sreechinth C and published by UB Tech. This book was released on with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SAYINGS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR ~ Best Martin Luther King Quotes ~ - More than 1100 Martin Luther King Quotes - Martin Luther King was born on the 15th January 1929 at Atlanta, USA. He was an iconic American activist, humanitarian. He becomes well known by leading famous African-American Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King received Nobel Peace Prize in the year 1964 for his efforts he put in fighting against racial inequality through a nonviolence mode. It was April 4th 1968 when Martin Luther King was assassinated at Memphis, Tennessee during his campaign. The assassination of Martin Luther King triggered riots around America. Martin Luther King's charismatic talking skills reflected in his quotes too. Like his speeches, his quotes are also famous. Here we have collected sayings and quotes of Martin Luther King which consists of quotations about various topics like social, life, success, courage, education, god, relationship, love, freedom, etc. You can find some motivational and mood shifting quotes among those he had spoken. This book, 'The Sayings of Martin Luther King, Jr: Best Martin Luther King Quotes' contains the sayings and quotes of Martin Luther King, probably the biggest collection of Martin Luther King quotes that you can find. Spare some time for his wordings. Turn the pages and grasp the gifts that Martin Luther King has left for you.
Download or read book The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers written by and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sayings and Stories of the Desert Fathers and Mothers offers a new translation of the Greek alphabetical Apophthegmata Patrum, The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. For the first time in an English translation, this volume provides: extensive background and contextual notes significant variant readings in the alphabetical manuscripts and textual differences vis-à-vis the systematic and anonymous Apophthegmata reference notes to both quotations from Scriptures and the many allusions to Scripture in the sayings and stories. In addition, there is an extensive glossary that offers information and further resources on people, places, and significant monastic vocabulary. Perfect for students and enthusiasts of the desert tradition.
Download or read book Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations written by Hugh Percy Jones and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twilight Hours in the Adirondacks The daily doings and several sayings of seven sober social scientific students in the Great Wilderness of Northern New York variously versified by H D L S etc written by Homer D. L. SWEET and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases written by Bartlett Jere Whiting and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."
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Download or read book The Lenzy Kelley Book of Sayings written by Bubba and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-01-03 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will encompass a litany of sayings and quotes which will reflect the authors opinion of the world today. Some of the comments are sartorial and meant to be funny. However, most are meant to be serious and to drive home a point. The majority of comments and sayings in this book emanate from the print media, news articles, TV and movies. Some of the comments are original and deride from the authors personal experience and observations. This book entails 53 chapters of subjects that range from politics, government, race relations, and a plethora of other subjects.
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