Paremiography

There are many published collection of proverbs, ranging from ancient Akkadian clay tablets to internet sites.

In addition, there are published collections from languages that do not have a long written tradition, such as Temne, Oromo, Bambara, Bassa.

This is the source of many English proverbs, including "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king" from "In regione caecorum rex est luscus".

For example, there has been a project to collect proverbs from multiple generations of French speakers in Belgium.

In this way, he was able to collect hundreds of proverbs from the Pashto language of Afghanistan and Pakistan, even though he was in the USA.

"[18] Some scholars collect and list the proverbs used by certain authors or speakers, such as Chaucer, Martin Luther (Cornette 1997), Abraham Lincoln (Mieder 2000), and Agatha Christie (Bryan 1993).

A listing of proverb collections from around the world has been published as International Bibliography of Paremiography (Wolfgang Mieder 2011).