1001 Smartest Things Ever Said

by Edited by Steven D. Price

• ISBN13: 9781592282661
• ISBN10: 1592282660
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: The Lyons Press

Summary

"The riders in a race do not stop short when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill . . . The canter that brings you to a standstill need not be only coming to rest. It cannot be, while you still live. For to live is to function. That is all there is to living." -Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., on his 90th birthday (March 31, 1931) and after more than a half-century as Justice of the the Supreme Court "We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it-and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again-and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore." -Samuel L. Clemens ("Mark Twain"), American author "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." -Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930 "We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American civil rights leader

Author Biography

Steven D. Price, a consulting editor of The Lyons Press, is the author of twenty-three books, including The Quotable Horse Lover, The Ultimate Fishing Guide, and Old As the Hills: The Story Of Bluegrass Music. A resident of New York City, he is a keen observer of human achievement and folly.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. vii
Life and Death (And Some of What Happens in Between)	p. 1
Love and Friendship	p. 89
Success, and Ways to Achieve It	p. 119
The Life of the Mind	p. 215
Politics and Politicians, Government and Statesmen	p. 265
Proverbial Wisdom	p. 305
Selected Quoted Sources	p. 341
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