The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs

The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs
Author: Martin H. Manser
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Total Pages: 513
Release: 2007
Genre: Proverbs, English
ISBN: 0816066736

Lists the meaning and origin of more than 1,700 traditional and contemporary English proverbs.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs
Author: John Simpson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1993
Genre: Proverbs, American
ISBN: 9780192800022

Lists recorded usages and meaning for hundreds of proverbs arranged by key word, from "Absence makes the heart grow fonder" to "Youth must be served."

The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations

The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations
Author: Jon R. Stone
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 413
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1135881103

The Routledge Dictionary of Latin Quotations completes our enormously successful and award-winning Latin for the Illiterati series of volumes, rounding off the trilogy with a comprehensive treasury of classic Latin quotations, mottoes, proverbs, and maxims collected from the worlds of philosophy, rhetoric, politics, science, religion, literature, drama, poetics, and war.Distinguished by the combination of user-friendliness and comprehensiveness, this book will provide students, scholars, and general readers with an eminently browsable resource that is as useful as it is enjoyable.

Twilight

Twilight
Author: Ernst Rosmer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1912
Genre:
ISBN:

Provocative and Contemplative Quotations

Provocative and Contemplative Quotations
Author: John L. Bowman
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2013-12-10
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1491835664

Emerson wrote that thinking is hard to do, which is why so few do it. Socrates asserted the unexamined life is not worth living, Franklin pondered prudentiality, Sartre examined the existentialist void, Bothius described the wheel of fortune, Cicero mused on old age, Shakespeare dramatized revenge, La Rochefoucauld unveiled vices tribute to virtue, Montaigne said no wind works for those with no port of destination and Sophocles explained it is a mistake to wait until evening to see how splendid the day has been. For millennia brilliant historic thinkers have pondered timeless truths about human nature. Many provocative and contemplative ideas have resonated through time, proving as meaningful today as in the past. This book offers a compendium of thought-provoking quotations along with cogent author comments. It is a celebration of thinkingand thought never goes out of fashion.

As You Like It

As You Like It
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Broadview Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2012-07-13
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1460400259

Both a witty satire of literary cliché and a tender meditation on the varieties of love, As You Like It continues to be one of Shakespeare’s most beloved and widely performed comedies. In the introduction to this new edition, David Bevington traces the complex relationships between the characters in the play, and explores the history of its criticism from Samuel Johnson to the twenty-first century. As part of the newly launched Broadview Press / Internet Shakespeare Editions series, this edition features a variety of interleaved materials—from facsimile pages, diagrams, and musical scores to illustrations and extended discussions of myth and folklore—that provide a context for the social and cultural allusions in the play. Appendices offer excerpts from Shakespeare’s key sources and influences, including Thomas Lodge’s Rosalind and Ben Jonson’s Every Man in His Humor. A collaboration between Broadview Press and the Internet Shakespeare Editions project at the University of Victoria, the editions developed for this series have been comprehensively annotated and draw on the authoritative texts newly edited for the ISE. This innovative series allows readers to access extensive and reliable online resources linked to the print edition.

Fortune Favors the Brave

Fortune Favors the Brave
Author: Benjamin Samuel Harrison
Publisher:
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1953
Genre: Pioneers
ISBN:

Bell went to California during the Gold Rush, was an adventurer with filibusters in Nicaragua, and served from Indiana in the Civil War. He returned to California and helped develop Los Angeles, published a newspaper, and wrote memoirs of early California. His Reminiscences of a ranger, or early times in southern California (1881) is on the Zamorano 80, no. 5.