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Proverbs

Afghan-Pakistani – 220
American – 270
Arabian Wisdom
British - Eng-Norw – 500
Chinese – ca. 420 ☥
Danish – 217
Dutch – 58
Egyptian – 24 + 120 precepts
English – 1610
Faroese – Eng-Fao – 72
Finnish – Finn-Eng – 41
French – Eng-Fr – 112 + 42
German – Eng-G ☥ ca. 100
Hungarian – 76
Icelandic – Eng-Icel – 26 + 28
Indian – 170
Irish – 400
Italian – 320+
Jewish – 129
Kashmir – Ca. 150 ☥
Manx – Eng-Gael – 70
Norse (Havamal) – 165 stanzas
Norwegian – Eng-Norw ☥

Persian – 120
Russian – 511
Scottish – 640
Sicilian – 136
Spanish – Eng-Sp – 32
Sumerian – 74
Swedish - Eng-Sw – 200
Tamil – 66
Turkish – 48
Tyrolean – 18
Welsh – 111

PROVERBS AND TEXTS ON PROVERBS

Animal Proverbs – ca. 320
Erasmus Proverbs and Adages ☥
Peacock Sayings ☥
Ligure Sayings ☥
Easier Living ☥
Practical Proverb Wisdom ☥
On Proverbs
Wisdom Proverbs from the Old Testament – 38 ☥

PIETER BREUGEL. PROVERBS. DETAIL

Pieter Breugel. Netherlandish Proverbs, with peasant scenes illustrating over 100 proverbs. 1559. Detail.

Relevant and fit proverbs work as suggestive and well simplified expression channels for what could be hard-won impressions.

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