About proverbs
“People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.”
― Oscar Wilde
Dictionaries
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by Call Number: e-book; click title to connectISBN: 0198605242Publication Date: 2003
A Dictionary of American Proverbs by Call Number: PN6426 .D53 1992ISBN: 0195053990Publication Date: 1991A Dictionary of International Slurs by
Call Number: HT1523 .R6 1979ISBN: 0916500055Publication Date: 1979A polyglot of foreign proverbs; comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish, with English translations and a general index by
Call Number: PN6404 .B6 1968Publication Date: 1857; 1968The Prentice-Hall Encyclopedia of World Proverbs by
Call Number: PN6405 .M54 1986ISBN: 013695586XPublication Date: 1985
Modern Proverbs and Proverbial Sayings by Call Number: PN6403 .W48 1989ISBN: 0674580532Publication Date: 1989Dictionary of Modern Proverbs by
Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2012.
Bibliographies
International bibliography of explanatory essays on individual proverbs and proverbial expressions by
Call Number: Z7191 .M54ISBN: 326102934xPublication Date: 1977International Proverb Scholarship by
Call Number: Z7191 .M543 1982ISBN: 0824092627Publication Date: 1982- Call Number: Z7191 .M543 1990 v.1-3ISBN: 0824040376Publication Date: 1990
Investigations of Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, Quotations and Clichis by
Call Number: Z7191 .M545 1984ISBN: 3261034351Publication Date: 1984