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Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages
A proverb is a remnant of the ancient philosophy preserved amidst very many destructions on account of its brevity and fitness for use.
From a work of Aristotle now lost.
Publius
Syrus.

Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages

Classified Subjectively and Arranged Alphabetically

Compiled by Robert Christy

The 20,500 selections in this classic reference work comprise an encyclopedic scope of English proverbs as well as translations from every major language.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

NEW YORK, LONDON: G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS, 1887
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2010

List of Subjects
Directory of 1,964 Proverb Classifications
Most Popular Maxim Categories
Advice, Age, Anger, Beauty, Better, Business, Child, Company, Conduct, Conscience, Courage, Death, Devil, Do, Eat, Enemy, Envy, Evil, Faults, Fear, Fire, Flattery, Fool, Fortune, Freedom, Friend, Friendship, Gift, Giving, God, Gold, Good, Happiness, Health, Heart, Honesty, Honor, Hope, Hunger, Idleness, Impossible, Jest, King, Knowledge, Labor, Law, Learning, Life, Living, Love, Lying, Man, Matrimony, Misfortunes, Money, Patience, Poor, Poverty, Praise, Pride, Purse, Rich, Silence, Sleep, Sorrow, Speech, State, Thief, Thing, Time, Tongue, Travelling, Trust, Truth, Vice, Virtue, War, Wife, Wine, Wisdom, Wise, Wit, Woman, Word, Work, Youth