books.google.com - From our earliest years we have heard proverbs, and many of them are repeated without much thought. Yes, ‘birds of a feather flock together’ and ‘absence makes the heart grow fonder’, but these sayings are so familiar that we are scarcely aware they are proverbs. It has been so for thousands...http://books.google.com/books/about/Preposterous_Proverbs.html?id=SvQUbm8UdsIC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePreposterous Proverbs