p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American
This study represents the first comprehensive treatise of American proverbs, each chapter including an interpretative essay, a special bibliography, and numerou
Americans have a gift for coining proverbs. "A picture is worth a thousand words" was not, as you might imagine, the product of ancient Chinese wisdom -- it was