Peculiar Proverbs: Weird Words of Wisdom from Around the World - Stephen Arnott
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 Peculiar Proverbs: Weird Words of Wisdom from Around the World - Stephen Arnott
Newest Review: ... as "Honesty is the best policy" (never say it when the missus asks if her bum looks big in anything though) or ... more  ... "Look before you leap" (as we all know, we all leap into pools of flaming petrol on a daily basis). These are of course a bit too "normal" for the book of "peculiar proverbs" and it's with great amusement that these are absent from the main body of the book.
However included in the book as the much quirkier, weirder, silly and some which have most certainly been lost in translation "He who eats old bread will swim easily" being one such example from Russia.
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Pages: 296, Hardcover, Summersdale Publishers Last Update 05.12.2009 05:43
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Peculiar Proverbs: Weird Words of Wisdom from Around the World - Stephen Arnott: Frequent kisses end up in a baby (853 words)
by - written on 31/07/09 (Very useful, 70 readings)
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"He who wastes money on silly book, gives up dinner due to lack of money"...is oddly one absent from a book so full of bizarre and wonderful proverbs that it may well have been lost on the cutting table. The book however does feature over 500 odd proverbs from around the world catalogued from a range of sources and countries by famed writer Stephen Arnott, who's silly idea has lead to this peculiar book. The book includes the wacky, the useless, the poignant and the most downright confusing of proverbs amongst it's 271 pages, which may seem mainly pointless, but it's still an oddly appealing release. The author, who many may know of from his previous ... Read the complete review
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