Illuminating Wit, Inspiring Wisdom: Proverbs from Around the World - Softcover

9780735200012: Illuminating Wit, Inspiring Wisdom: Proverbs from Around the World

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0735200017 ISBN 13: 9780735200012

Publisher: Prentice Hall Pr, 1656

Collects two thousand proverbs that reflect the traditional wisdom of cultures from around the world on topics ranging from accomplishment and cabbage to weddings and zeal

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Review:

Proverbs are addictive. Providing the wisdom of the world as well as insight into the world, Mieder's collection of international proverbs is the sort of book you want to keep near at hand, to skim through in a pensive moment, to search for a good quote, to leave around in hopes that the kids imbibe some worthwhile sagacity, and to pass around a group of like-minded language and reference enthusiasts for the fun of reading aloud. From just one page you can find erudition from the French ("It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day") and the Vietnamese ("What is true of the buffalo's bowels is true of the cow's bowels") as well as a Yiddish sample ("You can't have more in the bowl than you have in the pot") and an African truth ("Send a boy where he wants to go and you'll see his best pace"). As interesting for the culturally specific metaphors as for the shared world experiences, these 2,000 proverbs are handsomely and durably bound for posterity. --Stephanie Gold

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