The Little Giant Encyclopedia of ProverbsFor your amusement, for your edification and inspiration, for livening up that speech you have to give: proverbs have an irresistible power. These little pockets of wisdom say volumes about a culture--so take a tour around the world in words. You'll encounter the lively and colorful sayings from all around the world: Africa and its diaspora (Haiti, Jamaica, and African-American); Central and South America; Mexico; Native American; China, Japan; Italy; Ireland; Scotland; Israel; and the Arab nations. |
Contents
Introduction | 11 |
About the Proverbs | 17 |
Encyclopedia of Proverbs | 44 |
Adaptation | 55 |
Appearance | 80 |
Arrogance | 88 |
Authenticity | 89 |
Barter | 91 |
Humanity | 309 |
Humor | 313 |
Hunting Fishing | 315 |
Ignorance | 318 |
Ignorance Knowledge | 319 |
Indecision | 321 |
Ingratitude | 322 |
Inspiration | 323 |
Beauty | 93 |
Bravery | 95 |
Business | 97 |
Caution | 101 |
Change | 109 |
Character | 110 |
Charity | 116 |
Children | 118 |
Choices | 122 |
Common Sense | 125 |
Conduct | 133 |
Confidence | 134 |
Conflict | 135 |
Consequences | 141 |
Cooperation | 143 |
Courage | 146 |
CourageCowardice | 148 |
Courtesy | 149 |
Criticism | 151 |
Death | 154 |
Death Life | 158 |
Debt | 159 |
Deception | 162 |
Defeat Victory | 164 |
Deity | 165 |
Destiny | 167 |
Commonality 126 | 168 |
Comparison 131 | 169 |
Completion 131 | 171 |
Compromise 132 | 174 |
Drink | 175 |
Education | 178 |
Effort | 180 |
Elders | 181 |
Emotion | 182 |
Endurance | 184 |
Environment | 185 |
Envy | 186 |
EqualitySuperiority | 189 |
Essence | 190 |
Experience | 192 |
Expression | 197 |
Fairness | 198 |
Faith | 199 |
FoodHunger | 227 |
Fools Folly | 229 |
Foreigners | 236 |
The Forest | 237 |
Fortune | 238 |
Friends | 244 |
Friends Enemies | 246 |
Friendship | 254 |
Futility | 257 |
Generosity | 259 |
Giving Receiving | 260 |
GodReligion | 262 |
Familiarity 200 | 266 |
Farming 210 | 270 |
GossipLies | 271 |
GossipRumour | 272 |
Gratitude | 274 |
Greed | 275 |
GreedEnvy | 278 |
Guile | 279 |
Health | 287 |
Hearth Home | 290 |
Help | 293 |
Home Family | 294 |
Honesty | 296 |
Honor | 303 |
Hospitality | 307 |
Judgement | 324 |
Justice | 326 |
Kindness | 330 |
Knowledge | 333 |
Law | 337 |
Leadership | 340 |
Learning | 343 |
Life | 344 |
Life Lessons Wisdom | 347 |
Livelihood | 348 |
Love | 349 |
Loyalty | 358 |
Marriage | 361 |
Matchmaker | 369 |
Maturity | 370 |
Memories | 371 |
Men | 373 |
The Mill | 374 |
Moderation | 375 |
Morality | 377 |
Motivation | 378 |
Nature | 379 |
Neighbors | 383 |
Obstinacy | 384 |
Optimism | 386 |
Passions | 389 |
Pathways Footpaths | 391 |
Patience | 394 |
PeaceGood Wishes | 397 |
Perseverance | 398 |
Perspective | 403 |
Philosophy | 407 |
Pragmatism | 408 |
Pride | 410 |
Proverbial Wisdom | 413 |
Proverbs | 414 |
Prudence | 415 |
Scotland | 432 |
Selfishness | 433 |
Sensitivity | 434 |
Shame | 435 |
Sin | 436 |
Sincerity | 440 |
Sorrow | 441 |
Sport | 442 |
Status | 443 |
Strategy | 444 |
Success | 445 |
Suitability | 450 |
Superstition | 451 |
Suspicion | 452 |
Taste | 453 |
Temptation | 454 |
Thrift | 455 |
Tolerance | 456 |
Tradition | 457 |
Trust | 458 |
Truth | 461 |
Value | 464 |
Vanity | 466 |
Vision | 467 |
Vulnerability | 469 |
WealthPoverty | 470 |
Weather | 473 |
Wisdom | 475 |
Wit | 480 |
Women | 481 |
Work | 483 |
Bibliography | 486 |
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Common terms and phrases
African American agus aino anger Arabic Argentinean beautiful better bhíonn bhíos blind Bolivian child Chinese Chinese Colombian Cuban culture dance Death Dominican Republic drink duine Ecuadoran enemy English American English English evil eyes faults fear fearr féin fish fool give goat ha'adam Haitian hand happy Hausan heart Hebrew Honduran honor Hopi horse Igbo Irish Irish Italian Jamaican Japanese Kikuyu laugh lihiyot Little Giant Encyclopedia live look maith Mamprussi man's married mejor Mexican Mexican Mexican Mexican There's minic mouth nation Native American never Nicaraguan Níl óige one's Ovambo Panamanian passion person Peruvian poor proverbs Puerto Rican quiere Russian Russian Scottish she'ain shel Shlosha Shona Sioux sorrow speak stone Swahili tell things tree truth Tshi Ugandan Uruguayan Venezuelan wife wine wisdom wise woman Yiddish Yoruban yoter