1001 Smartest Things Ever Said

by Price, Steven D.

• ISBN13: 9781592287888
• ISBN10: 1592287883
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-04-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

In this witty collection you will find quotations grouped in categories that reflect the range of human existence, hopes, and achievement: Life and Death (And Some of What Happens in Between) "Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness." James Thurber Love and Friendship "The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing." Blaise Pascal Success and Ways to Achieve It "Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."Sir Winston Churchill The Life of the Mind "Don't talk unless you can improve the silence." Jorge Luis Borges Politics and Politicians, Government and Statesmen "Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes." Benjamin Franklin Proverbial Wisdom "Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow." Swedish proverb

Author Biography

Steven D. Price, a consulting editor of The Lyons Press, is the author of more than twenty-three books, including 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said, 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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