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aphorisms and proverbs

Familiar quotations; a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs traced to their sources in ancient and modern literature

By John Bartlett

The home book of quotations, classical and modern

By Burton Egbert Stevenson

Deipnosophistae

By Athenaeus of Naucratis

Vermischte unphysiognomische Regeln

By Johann Caspar Lavater

A polyglot of foreign proverbs, comprising French, Italian, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danish

By Henry George Bohn

Commentaria in Hermanni Boerhaave Aphorismos

By Swieten, Gerard Freiherr van

The aphorisms of Hippocrates

By Hippocrates

Medical Education

By Kieran Walsh,Fiona Godlee

A provincial glossary

By Francis Grose

Aphorismi

By Herman Boerhaave

The quotable Osler

By Sir William Osler

Fuṣūl Mūsā

By Moses Maimonides

A truthtelling manual and the art of worldly wisdom

By Baltasar Gracián y Morales

A compleat collection of English proverbs

By John Ray

Proverbs, maxims and phrases of all ages

By Christy, Robert

Sylva

By Heathcote, Ralph

Medical axioms, aphorisms and clinical memoranda

By James Alexander Lindsay

Kitāb al-fuṣūl fī al-ṭibb

By Moses Maimonides

Dictionary of quotations

By Evans, Bergen

Sir William Osler

By Sir William Osler

A collection of proverbs and popular sayings relating to the seasons, the weather, and agricultural pursuits

By Michael Aislabie Denham

Bayerische sagen und Bräuche

By Friedrich Panzer

Medical Aphorisms

By Moses Maimonides

Familiar medical quotations

By Maurice B. Strauss