Download or read book The Macmillan Book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases written by Burton Egbert Stevenson and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1965 with total page 3052 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sayings which range from the Greeks and Hebrews of 800 and 700 B.C. down to the present.