8,789 Words of Wisdom: Proverbs, Precepts, Maxims, Adages, and Axioms to Live By

With words of comfort and motivation, humor and warmth, here are thousands of proverbs, precepts, maxims, adages, and axioms—8,789 of them, to be precise—that prove just as true today as the day they were coined. Polished over years of use, there’s the unexpected, the playful, even the counterintuitive.