Author: Stephen Arnott
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429953292
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Peculiar Proverbs is a hilarious and enlightening collection of genuine proverbs from around the world that ignores the sayings we are all familiar with and focuses on the more obscure. Some are deft, witty, and colorful, others are just plain weird, but they are all fascinating. The proverbs are grouped in topics ranging from work (or reasons not to), family life, love, food, age, religion, money, and many more. Humor and wisdom characterize these bizarre and quirky sayings, and they reveal much about their countries of origin, and plenty about human nature. Peculiar Proverbs includes sayings you won't find in any other collection, sometimes so surreal they defy you to decipher them, providing hours of entertainment. Remember: The man who tickles himself can laugh when he chooses. *Dogs and rude people have no hands (Italy) *God preserve us from pitchforks, for they make three holes (Switzerland) *It is not necessary for priests to marry as long as peasants have wives (Germany) *A mother-in-law, like the yucca tree, is useful underground (Cuba) *Better the gurgling of a camel than the prayers of a fish (Egypt) *Give a dog an appetizing name, and eat him (China) *There are two good people: one of them is dead, and the other one was not born (Estonia) *Mediocrity is climbing a molehill without sweating (Iceland) *You cannot drink water, it is not vodka (Russia) *A cow pat is wider when trodden on (Ireland)
Peculiar Proverbs
Author: Stephen Arnott
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429953292
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Peculiar Proverbs is a hilarious and enlightening collection of genuine proverbs from around the world that ignores the sayings we are all familiar with and focuses on the more obscure. Some are deft, witty, and colorful, others are just plain weird, but they are all fascinating. The proverbs are grouped in topics ranging from work (or reasons not to), family life, love, food, age, religion, money, and many more. Humor and wisdom characterize these bizarre and quirky sayings, and they reveal much about their countries of origin, and plenty about human nature. Peculiar Proverbs includes sayings you won't find in any other collection, sometimes so surreal they defy you to decipher them, providing hours of entertainment. Remember: The man who tickles himself can laugh when he chooses. *Dogs and rude people have no hands (Italy) *God preserve us from pitchforks, for they make three holes (Switzerland) *It is not necessary for priests to marry as long as peasants have wives (Germany) *A mother-in-law, like the yucca tree, is useful underground (Cuba) *Better the gurgling of a camel than the prayers of a fish (Egypt) *Give a dog an appetizing name, and eat him (China) *There are two good people: one of them is dead, and the other one was not born (Estonia) *Mediocrity is climbing a molehill without sweating (Iceland) *You cannot drink water, it is not vodka (Russia) *A cow pat is wider when trodden on (Ireland)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1429953292
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Peculiar Proverbs is a hilarious and enlightening collection of genuine proverbs from around the world that ignores the sayings we are all familiar with and focuses on the more obscure. Some are deft, witty, and colorful, others are just plain weird, but they are all fascinating. The proverbs are grouped in topics ranging from work (or reasons not to), family life, love, food, age, religion, money, and many more. Humor and wisdom characterize these bizarre and quirky sayings, and they reveal much about their countries of origin, and plenty about human nature. Peculiar Proverbs includes sayings you won't find in any other collection, sometimes so surreal they defy you to decipher them, providing hours of entertainment. Remember: The man who tickles himself can laugh when he chooses. *Dogs and rude people have no hands (Italy) *God preserve us from pitchforks, for they make three holes (Switzerland) *It is not necessary for priests to marry as long as peasants have wives (Germany) *A mother-in-law, like the yucca tree, is useful underground (Cuba) *Better the gurgling of a camel than the prayers of a fish (Egypt) *Give a dog an appetizing name, and eat him (China) *There are two good people: one of them is dead, and the other one was not born (Estonia) *Mediocrity is climbing a molehill without sweating (Iceland) *You cannot drink water, it is not vodka (Russia) *A cow pat is wider when trodden on (Ireland)
Sayings, Proverbs and Humour of Ulster
Author: Sir John William Byers
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Proverbs
Author: William Henry Porter
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Category : Proverbs
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Category : Proverbs
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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Flowers and Flower Lore
Author: Hilderic Friend
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 736
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Eliza Cook's journal
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Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Languages : en
Pages : 430
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The Form and Function of Proverbs in Ancient Israel
Author: John M. Thompson
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110808153
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110808153
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars, in this way introducing them to a wider audience in Europe and North America. The series he founded for that purpose, Studia Judaica, continues to offer a platform for scholarly studies and editions that cover all eras in the history of the Jewish religion.
Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review
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Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Sermons. Life of Winter. Memoirs of John Clark. A charge to the wife of a minister. The wife's advocate, etc
Author: William Jay
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Category : Devotional calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Publisher:
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Category : Devotional calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Standard Works of the Rev. William Jay ... Comprising All His Works Known in this Country
Author: William Jay
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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Publisher:
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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The Works of the Rev. William Jay: Sermons. Life of Winter. Memoirs of John Clark. A charge to the wife of a minister. The wife's advocate, etc
Author: William Jay
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Category : Dissenters, Religious
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissenters, Religious
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description