Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs

Name: Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs
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ISBN: 9780140514780

ISBN-10: 0140514783

ISBN-13: 9780140514780

Edition: 2nd 2000 (Revised)

Authors: Rosalind Fergusson, Jonathan Law

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By turns witty, teasing and provoking, this collection includes over 6,000 proverbs from all over the world. Explanations are provided where the proverb's meaning is obscure or ambiguous.

Book details

List price: $13.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.08" wide x 7.80" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.638

Rosalind Fergusson was born in Liverpool in 1953 and obtained her degree in French from Exeter University. From 1978 to 1984 she worked for Market House Books where she became Senior Editor and worked on a range of reference books. Since leaving Market House Books she has worked as a freelance editor. Rosalind Fergusson is married and lives in Kent. Her leisure interests include walking, sailing and music.



Absence


Adversity


Advice


Ambition


Anger


Anticipation


Appearance


Asking


Authority


Badness


Beauty


Beginnings


Believing


Borrowing


Breeding


Building


Change


Character


Children


Choosing


Cleanliness


Commerce


Company


Conceit


Conformity


Conscience


Contempt


Contentment


Corruption


Country lore


Courage


Cowardice


Crime


Criticism


Cruelty


Cunning


Danger


Days


Death


Deceit


Deeds


Defamation


Delay


Deserving


Destiny


Devil


Differences


Diligence


Discipline


Dress


Drinking


Earliness


Eating


Education


Endings


Endurance


Enemies


England


Envy


Equality


Example


Experience


Eyes


Fame


Familiarity


Fear


Fine arts


Flattery


Foolishness


Foresight


Forgiveness


Friends


Gain


Gambling


Giving


Gluttony


God


Goodness


Gossip


Gratitude


Greatness


Greed


Habit


Happiness


Haste


Hatred


Health


Helping


Honesty


Honour


Hope


Hospitality


Hunger


Hypocrisy


Idleness


Ignorance


Imperfection


Inconvenience


Inquisitiveness


Justice


Kindness


Knowledge


Lateness


Law


Lending


Liberty


Life


Likelihood


Love


Loyalty


Luck


Lust


Marriage


Mind


Miserliness


Moderation


Months


Names


Nature


Necessity


Neighbours


News


Obedience


Occupations


Old people


Opportunity


Optimism


Parents


Passion


Patience


Paying


Peace


People and places


Perseverance


Possession


Poverty


Praise


Pride


Promises


Proverbs


Quarrelling


Regret


Relations


Religion


Remedies


Resolution


Responsibility


Revenge


Royalty


Sacrifice


Safety


Seasons


Self


Servants


Shame


Silence


Similarity


Skill


Sleep


Small things


Solitude


Sorrow


Spending


Strength


Success


Suffering


Superstitions


Talking


Temptation


Thrift


Time


Travel


Trial


Trouble-making


Trust


Truth


Use


War


Weakness


Wealth


Weather


Will


Wisdom


Women


World


Worry


Worth


Writing