Penguin Dictionary of Proverbs

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Entertaining and informative, this rich and diverse collection of over 6000 proverbs (and their origins) is a delight to browse and the perfect addition to any home reference shelf.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

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

Author notes provided by Syndetics

ROSALIND FERGUSSON has worked extensively as an editor, lexicographer and writer for over twenty years. Her previous publications include THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF SYNONYMS AND ANTONYMS, THE PENGUIN RHYMING DICTIONARY and CHOOSE YOUR BABY'S NAME. She is currently working on the forthcoming NEW PENGUIN ENGLISH DICTIONARY and THE PENGUIN A-Z THESAURUS.
She is married and lives in Newington, nr Sittingbourne, Kent.