The Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs Second Edition

by Fergusson, Rosalind

• ISBN13: 9780140514780
• ISBN10: 0140514783
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Penguin Books

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.

Table of Contents

Absence	1	(1)
Adversity	2	(2)
Advice	4	(2)
Ambition	6	(1)
Anger	7	(2)
Anticipation	9	(1)
Appearance	10	(2)
Asking	12	(1)
Authority	13	(2)
Badness	15	(2)
Beauty	17	(2)
Beginnings	19	(1)
Believing	20	(1)
Borrowing	21	(1)
Breeding	22	(2)
Building	24	(1)
Change	25	(2)
Character	27	(1)
Children	28	(3)
Choosing	31	(1)
Cleanliness	32	(1)
Commerce	32	(2)
Company	34	(1)
Conceit	35	(1)
Conformity	36	(1)
Conscience	37	(1)
Contempt	38	(1)
Contentment	38	(2)
Corruption	40	(2)
Country lore	42	(3)
Courage	45	(1)
Cowardice	46	(1)
Crime	47	(2)
Criticism	49	(1)
Cruelty	50	(1)
Cunning	51	(1)
Danger	52	(2)
Days	54	(1)
Death	55	(3)
Deceit	58	(2)
Deeds	60	(2)
Defamation	62	(1)
Delay	63	(1)
Deserving	64	(1)
Destiny	65	(1)
Devil	65	(1)
Differences	66	(2)
Diligence	68	(2)
Discipline	70	(2)
Dress	72	(1)
Drinking	73	(4)
Earliness	77	(1)
Eating	78	(3)
Education	81	(2)
Endings	83	(1)
Endurance	83	(1)
Enemies	84	(1)
England	85	(5)
Envy	90	(1)
Equality	90	(2)
Example	92	(1)
Experience	92	(1)
Eyes	93	(2)
Fame	95	(1)
Familiarity	96	(1)
Fear	96	(1)
Fine arts	97	(1)
Flattery	98	(1)
Foolishness	99	(3)
Foresight	102	(1)
Forgiveness	103	(2)
Friends	105	(4)
Gain	109	(1)
Gambling	110	(1)
Giving	111	(2)
Gluttony	113	(1)
God	114	(3)
Goodness	117	(1)
Gossip	118	(2)
Gratitude	120	(1)
Greatness	121	(2)
Greed	123	(2)
Habit	125	(1)
Happiness	125	(3)
Haste	128	(2)
Hatred	130	(1)
Health	131	(2)
Helping	133	(1)
Honesty	134	(1)
Honour	135	(1)
Hope	136	(1)
Hospitality	137	(1)
Hunger	138	(1)
Hypocrisy	139	(2)
Idleness	141	(2)
Ignorance	143	(1)
Imperfection	143	(2)
Inconvenience	145	(1)
Inquisitiveness	145	(2)
Justice	147	(2)
Kindness	149	(1)
Knowledge	150	(2)
Lateness	152	(1)
Law	152	(3)
Lending	155	(1)
Liberty	156	(1)
Life	157	(1)
Likelihood	158	(1)
Love	159	(5)
Loyalty	164	(1)
Luck	165	(2)
Lust	167	(2)
Marriage	169	(6)
Mind	175	(1)
Miserliness	176	(1)
Moderation	177	(2)
Months	179	(5)
Names	184	(1)
Nature	184	(1)
Necessity	185	(1)
Neighbours	185	(1)
News	186	(2)
Obedience	188	(1)
Occupations	188	(3)
Old people	191	(2)
Opportunity	193	(1)
Optimism	194	(2)
Parents	196	(1)
Passion	197	(1)
Patience	198	(1)
Paying	199	(2)
Peace	201	(1)
People and places	201	(5)
Perseverance	206	(1)
Possession	207	(1)
Poverty	208	(5)
Praise	213	(1)
Pride	214	(1)
Promises	215	(1)
Proverbs	216	(1)
Quarrelling	217	(2)
Regret	219	(1)
Relations	220	(1)
Religion	221	(5)
Remedies	226	(1)
Resolution	227	(1)
Responsibility	227	(2)
Revenge	229	(1)
Royalty	230	(3)
Sacrifice	233	(1)
Safety	233	(1)
Seasons	234	(1)
Self	235	(2)
Servants	237	(2)
Shame	239	(1)
Silence	240	(1)
Similarity	241	(1)
Skill	242	(1)
Sleep	242	(2)
Small things	244	(1)
Solitude	245	(1)
Sorrow	246	(3)
Spending	249	(1)
Strength	250	(1)
Success	251	(1)
Suffering	252	(1)
Superstitions	253	(3)
Talking	256	(4)
Temptation	260	(1)
Thrift	261	(2)
Time	263	(2)
Travel	265	(1)
Trial	266	(1)
Trouble-making	267	(1)
Trust	268	(1)
Truth	269	(3)
Use	272	(1)
War	273	(1)
Weakness	274	(1)
Wealth	275	(5)
Weather	280	(6)
Will	286	(2)
Wisdom	288	(2)
Women	290	(4)
World	294	(1)
Worry	295	(1)
Worth	296	(1)
Writing	297