The Book of Wise Sayings is an excellent resource for today's authors, speakers, teachers, networkers, and bloggers. These 589 sayings and quotes range from a variety of topics such as ability, fortune, friendship, youth and zeal. Many of the quotes come from ancient, western historians, and Eastern Philosophers.
Whether it's like "a bump on a log" or "a bat out of hell", these expressions have been around forever. Dr. Funk explains over 400 droll, colorful, and sometimes pungent expressions of everyday speech. Derived from classical sources, historic events, famous literature, frontier humor, and the frailties of humankind, each of these sayings have an interesting story behind their origin.
The proverbs in this book are all genuine sayings collected from many cultures around the world. They are extracts from a number of proverb collections (many dating from the nineteenth century) compiled by various folklorists, linguists, social anthropologists and travellers.
This collection ignores the common sayings we’re all familiar with and concentrates on the more colourful, unusual and, in some cases, incomprehensible proverbs that have been recorded over the years.
Many of these sayings fall naturally into categories such as ‘Love and Marriage’ or ‘The Fairer Sex’ but others are not so easy to classify and have been ordered in a less conventional fashion.
The Bible said it first
It is truly amazing how much of our day to day speech had its beginnings in the Bible. We have here three sheets covering 54 sayings which are still in common use today. Some of these sayings were first spoken by Jesus while some others have been in use for over 3000 years. See if you can discover more of these sayings from your Bible. These sheets can be useful for people of all ages as they can give us another opportunity to introduce the Bible into our daily conversations.
