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• catalog abstract ""From "Look before you leap" and "You can't sell the cow and have the milk too" to "There's no fool like an old fool" and "Practice what you preach," the wisdom of proverbs has delighted people throughout the ages. Now, Proverbs Are Never Out of Season provides an engaging look at the significance of traditional proverbs and their variations in the modern world." "Wolfgang Mieder takes a fascinating tour of the many roles proverbs have played and continue to play today - from sales pitch to propagandistic tool. He looks at how we adapt proverbs to rapidly changing social attitudes - the original wording of proverbs changes to fit modern advertising slogans or political rhetoric, misogynist sayings become feminist slogans, and late medieval woodcuts illustrating proverbs find their modern equivalents in political cartoons and comic strips. In an investigation of the origin of the proverb "Early to bed and early to rise," Mieder not only reveals that Benjamin Franklin was by no means the coiner of this popular saying, but that of the 1,044 proverbs in Poor Richard's Almanack, only 5% were actually coined by Franklin himself (among them "There will be sleeping enough in the grave" and "Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes it")." "Mieder also traces the origin of the proverb "A picture is worth a thousand words" back to an advertising slogan used in 1921. He points out the truth of such medical proverbs as "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," and "Stuff a cold and starve a fever," revealing that while this medical advice may be quite general, it expresses some common-sense insights gained from experience and supported by medical scholarship. And he shows how the frequently cited "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water" found its way from 16th-century Germany to the United States. (Among those who have used it in their literary works are Martin Luther, George Bernard Shaw, and Gunter Grass.)." "Wolfgang Mieder, the world's foremost proverb expert, has been studying proverbs for most of his life. He has published more than fifty books on his favorite subject, including the mammoth Dictionary of American Proverbs. Complete with thirty-eight illustrations, here is a rich compendium of the many uses of proverbs throughout history and undeniable proof that proverbs are never our of season."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b4064328.
• catalog created "1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1993.".
• catalog description ""From "Look before you leap" and "You can't sell the cow and have the milk too" to "There's no fool like an old fool" and "Practice what you preach," the wisdom of proverbs has delighted people throughout the ages. Now, Proverbs Are Never Out of Season provides an engaging look at the significance of traditional proverbs and their variations in the modern world." "Wolfgang Mieder takes a fascinating tour of the many roles proverbs have played and continue to play today - from sales pitch to propagandistic tool. He looks at how we adapt proverbs to rapidly changing social attitudes - the original wording of proverbs changes to fit modern advertising slogans or political rhetoric, misogynist sayings become feminist slogans, and late medieval woodcuts illustrating proverbs find their modern equivalents in political cartoons and comic strips. In an investigation of the origin of the proverb "Early to bed and early to rise," Mieder not only reveals that Benjamin Franklin was by no means the coiner of this popular saying, but that of the 1,044 proverbs in Poor Richard's Almanack, only 5% were actually coined by Franklin himself (among them "There will be sleeping enough in the grave" and "Laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes it")." "Mieder also traces the origin of the proverb "A picture is worth a thousand words" back to an advertising slogan used in 1921. He points out the truth of such medical proverbs as "An apple a day keeps the doctor away," and "Stuff a cold and starve a fever," revealing that while this medical advice may be quite general, it expresses some common-sense insights gained from experience and supported by medical scholarship. And he shows how the frequently cited "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water" found its way from 16th-century Germany to the United States. (Among those who have used it in their literary works are Martin Luther, George Bernard Shaw, and Gunter Grass.)."".
• catalog description ""Wolfgang Mieder, the world's foremost proverb expert, has been studying proverbs for most of his life. He has published more than fifty books on his favorite subject, including the mammoth Dictionary of American Proverbs. Complete with thirty-eight illustrations, here is a rich compendium of the many uses of proverbs throughout history and undeniable proof that proverbs are never our of season."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "1. "The Wit of One, and the Wisdom of Many": General Thoughts on the Nature of the Proverb -- 2. "A Proverb Is a Short Sentence of Wisdom": Popular Views of the Proverb -- 3. "Proverbs Everyone Ought to Know": Paremiological Minimum and Cultural Literacy -- 4. "Old Wisdom in New Clothing": The Proverb in the Modern Age -- 5. "Early to Bed and Early to Rise": From Proverb to Benjamin Franklin and Back -- 6. "A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words": From Advertising Slogan to American Proverb -- 7. "An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away": Traditional and Modern Aspects of Medical Proverbs -- 8. "Good Proverbs Make Good Vermonters": The Flavor of Regional Proverbs.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 256-270) and indexes.".
• catalog extent "xviii, 284 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Proverbs are never out of season.".
• catalog identifier "0195077288 (alk. paper) :".
• catalog isFormatOf "Proverbs are never out of season.".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
• catalog relation "Proverbs are never out of season.".
• catalog subject "398.9 20".
• catalog subject "PN6401 .M49 1993".
• catalog subject "Proverbs History and criticism.".
• catalog tableOfContents "1. "The Wit of One, and the Wisdom of Many": General Thoughts on the Nature of the Proverb -- 2. "A Proverb Is a Short Sentence of Wisdom": Popular Views of the Proverb -- 3. "Proverbs Everyone Ought to Know": Paremiological Minimum and Cultural Literacy -- 4. "Old Wisdom in New Clothing": The Proverb in the Modern Age -- 5. "Early to Bed and Early to Rise": From Proverb to Benjamin Franklin and Back -- 6. "A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words": From Advertising Slogan to American Proverb -- 7. "An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away": Traditional and Modern Aspects of Medical Proverbs -- 8. "Good Proverbs Make Good Vermonters": The Flavor of Regional Proverbs.".
• catalog title "Proverbs are never out of season : popular wisdom in the modern age / Wolfgang Mieder.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".