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Author : Herbert Victor Prochnow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (813 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Wit, Wisdom & Satire written by Herbert Victor Prochnow and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of wit, wisdom & satire written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Victor Prochnow
Publisher : Castle Books, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780785820246
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Wit, Wisdom, and Satire written by Herbert Victor Prochnow and published by Castle Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 5,000 definitions by wise men and wags, arranged alphabetically by subject to sharpen your writing and speech.
Author : Herbert Victor Prochnow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (274 download)
Download or read book A Dictionary of Wit, Wisdom, & Humor written by Herbert Victor Prochnow and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Byrne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743235797
Total Pages : 673 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)
Download or read book The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said written by Robert Byrne and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An irreverent selection of humorous quotes, one-liners, definitions, and quips features words of wisdom from contributors ranging from Goethe to David Letterman on such topics as families, philosophy, movies and television, and education.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chronicle Books
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452127735
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Yiddish Wisdom written by Chronicle Books and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The tongue is the pen of the heart/Di tsung iz der feder fun di hartz” and more sayings that sum up Jewish character and culture from generations past. Decade after decade, Yiddish proverbs continue to capture the humor, warmth, and traditions of Jewish life. Now, the beloved Yiddish Wisdom has been expanded with even more proverbs and fresh illustrations to be cherished by a new generation. With more than 150 folk sayings translated in Yiddish and English—from the whimsical and witty (Dress up a broom and it will also look nice/Az men batziert a bezem iz er oich shain) to the poignant (When one must, one can/Az me muz, ken men) and practical (When you look to the heights, hold on to your hat/Az du kukst oif hoicheh zachen, halt tsu dos hitl)—this treasured volume is the perfect gift for any celebration.
Author : Robert Byrne
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0449902854
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (499 download)
Download or read book 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said written by Robert Byrne and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 1,911 quotes from scholars, comedians, political candidates, writers, reporters, philosophers, and other people from throughout history.
Author : John Cunningham Wood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415248259
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (482 download)
Download or read book Henry Ford written by John Cunningham Wood and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sadia Belkhir
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027246882
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)
Download or read book Proverbs within Cognitive Linguistics written by Sadia Belkhir and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume presents an innovative set of researches featuring theoretical and practical discussions of the proverb in cognition and culture. To date, there seems to be a need for state-of-the-art research into this subject matter. This volume aims at responding to this need. The chapters contribute, from a Cognitive Linguistics interdisciplinary perspective, to the existing body of literature on the proverb. The book begins with a first part containing three chapters concerned with theoretical discussions of proverbs in cognition and culture. The three chapters in the second part ponder proverbs within a cognitive-cross-cultural perspective. The third part of the volume includes three chapters that deal with the proverbs of individual languages and cultures. The three chapters in the fourth part study proverbs and/or related phenomena from a cognitive and cultural perspective: snowclones, idioms, and proverbial phrases. This book will be of interest to academics interested in proverbs within a cognitive linguistic framework and to scholars in the areas of language studies, applied linguistics, language teaching and learning, and Cognitive Linguistics in general, and to those researchers who wish to refine their knowledge about the cognitive activities featuring proverb use and their interaction with sociocultural contextual variables.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048648923X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain written by Mark Twain and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Familiarity breeds contempt — and children." "When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear." "Heaven for climate. Hell for company." This attractive paperback gift edition of the renowned American humorist's epigrams and witticisms features hundreds of quips on life, love, history, culture, travel, and other topics from his fiction, essays, letters, and autobiography.
Author : Anthony W. Shipps
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252016950
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (169 download)
Download or read book The Quote Sleuth written by Anthony W. Shipps and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tracer's goals are to identify the source of a quotation, to find or to produce detailed citation based on a reliable edition of the work, to find an authoritative text of the passage being traced, and to do all this in the shortest time possible and with the least possible amount of effort.
Author : Bahman Dehgan
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476614822
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book America in Quotations written by Bahman Dehgan and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.... No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do”—Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835). “Americans will pay a big price for an invention that will help them save time they don’t know what to do with”—Anonymous. This collection of quotations—both serious and humorous—about America is divided into 19 main topics: The Nation, The American People, Places, Nature, Mind, The Individual, Human Relations, Social Life, Culture and Media, Literature and Language, Religion and Belief, Past and Future, History, War and the Military, International Relations, Politics and Government, Law and Order, Business and Economy, and Food. Each main topic is divided into subtopics; for example, “Culture and Media” has these: Architecture, Art, Charlie Chaplin, Dance, Fashion, Intellectuals, Marilyn Monroe, Movies, Music, Elvis Presley, and Television. The author attributes each quote to its speaker, author or composer, and wherever possible, provides the date of the quote and the name of the work in which it was published. In the case of uncertainty about the exact date of a quote, the author provides the birth and death dates of the person to whom the quote is attributed. Also included are a keyword and subject index and a speaker index.
Author : B. Dziemidok
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401116563
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Comical written by B. Dziemidok and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of the comical is one of the most interesting issues in aesthetics. Its significance extends well beyond the sphere of aesthetic studies and has at tracted the attention of the scholars working in other fields such as the theorists and historians of particular art forms, sociologists, psychologists, as well as anthropologists, ethnographers and the theorists of education. Philosophy has devoted a lot of attention to the comical. Since Aristotle al most every philosopher has felt obliged to comment on this question. However, even though they have offered a number of accurate observations on the subject, the philosophers involved in the discussion about the comical have earned a reputation of being rather devoid of the sense of the comical and many a time their considerations have been compared to those of a blind man talking about colours. And yet the problem of the comical kept attracting them to such an ex tent that they paid no heed to the difficulties involved and neglected the risk of becoming ridiculous themselves. Adolf Zeissing once remarked that all the litera ture on the comical is a "comedy of errors" committed while defining the comi cal. Yet even he could not resist the temptation of adding another page to this "comedy of errors". Tadeusz Boy-Zeleriski claimed that the good thing about the philosophical writing concerning the comical is that it offers not only the theory of the comical but at the same time is the theory's practical application.
Author : Anna T. Litovkina
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319911988
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Women Through Anti-Proverbs written by Anna T. Litovkina and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines stereotypical traits of women as they are reflected in Anglo-American anti-proverbs, also known as proverb transformations, deliberate proverb innovations, alterations, parodies, variations, wisecracks, fractured proverbs, and proverb mutations. Through these sayings and witticisms the author delineates the image of women that these anti-proverbs reflect, her qualities, attributes and behavior. The book begins with an analysis of how women’s role in the family, their sexuality and traditional occupations are presented in proverbs, and presents an overview of the genre of the anti-proverb. The author then analyses how this image of women is transformed in anti-proverbs, sometimes subverting, but often reinforcing the sexist bias of the original. This engaging work will appeal to students and scholars of humour studies, paremiology, gender studies, cultural studies, folklore and sociolinguistics alike.
Author : Anna T. Litovkina
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527542785
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Marriage Seen through Proverbs and Anti-Proverbs written by Anna T. Litovkina and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores various aspects of marriage and the ways it is viewed and conceptualized in the body of Anglo-American anti-proverbs (or proverb transformations). It also depicts those who contribute to the institution of marriage (that is, husbands and wives), and analyses their nature, qualities, attributes and behaviours as revealed through such anti-proverbs. In addition, the text investigates those who remain single and do not belong to the institution of marriage, but contribute to the institution of marriage. It will appeal to a wide range of readers, from the casually interested general reader to the paremiologist, paremiographer, lexicographer, and anthropologist.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1152 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1963 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)
