Webster's Dictionary of Quotations

by STRUMPF, MICHAEL

• ISBN13: 9780517220603
• ISBN10: 0517220601
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Gramercy

Summary

Find the perfect quote to give your speech or writing that extra sparkle. This concise, accessible, handy volume features thousands of quotes on over two hundred topics from politicians, writers, philosophers, actors, scientists, clergy, and other people from all walks of life. These short and witty sayings cover aging, friendship, hardship, procrastination, blushing, laziness, money, temptation, and other topics profound and frivolous. Indexed by author and topic and extensively cross-referenced throughout.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Ability	1	(1)
Accomplishment	2	(3)
Achievement	5	(3)
Acting	8	(2)
Action	10	(2)
Adolescence	12	(3)
Advertising	15	(1)
Advice	16	(3)
African-Americans	19	(2)
Afterlife	21	(3)
Age	24	(7)
Alcohol	31	(1)
Alimony	32	(1)
Ambition	33	(2)
Americans	35	(2)
Ancestry	37	(2)
Anger	39	(1)
Animals	40	(2)
Argument	42	(2)
The Arts	44	(5)
Authors	49	(4)
Bachelors	53	(1)
Bargains	54	(1)
Beauty	55	(3)
Behavior	58	(2)
Beliefs	60	(2)
Bible	62	(2)
Blame	64	(2)
Blindness	66	(1)
Blushing	67	(1)
Body	68	(1)
Books	69	(5)
Boredom	74	(2)
Bravery	76	(2)
Business	78	(2)
Cats	80	(1)
Celebrity	81	(1)
Change	82	(1)
Character	83	(3)
Charm	86	(1)
Chastity	87	(1)
Children	88	(5)
Christianity	93	(2)
Civilization	95	(1)
Committees	96	(2)
Computers	98	(2)
Conceit	100	(1)
Confidence	101	(1)
Conformity	102	(1)
Conscience	103	(1)
Conservative	104	(2)
Contentment	106	(1)
Conversation	107	(1)
Convictions	108	(2)
Creativity	110	(1)
Crime	111	(2)
Criticism	113	(1)
Death	114	(5)
Debt	119	(1)
Deception	120	(1)
Definitions	121	(1)
Democracy	122	(2)
Deprecation	124	(1)
Desire and Longing	125	(1)
Desperation	126	(1)
Diet	127	(1)
Diplomats	128	(1)
Direction	129	(1)
Disappointment	130	(1)
Disease	131	(1)
Divorce	132	(1)
Doctors	133	(1)
Dogs	134	(1)
Drama	135	(1)
Dreams	136	(1)
Education	137	(3)
Ego	140	(2)
Emptiness	142	(1)
Enemies	143	(1)
English	144	(1)
Envy	145	(2)
Eternity	147	(1)
Evil	147	(5)
Experience	152	(2)
Failure	154	(2)
Faith	156	(2)
Fame	158	(2)
Family	160	(2)
Fanaticism	162	(1)
Fashion	163	(1)
Fate	164	(1)
Fear	165	(2)
Feelings	167	(2)
Films	169	(2)
Flattery	171	(1)
Food	172	(3)
Fool	175	(1)
Forgiving	176	(1)
Freedom	177	(2)
Friendship	179	(6)
Future	185	(3)
Gambling	188	(1)
Genius	189	(2)
Giving	191	(1)
God	192	(6)
Goodwill	198	(1)
Government	199	(1)
Gratitude	200	(1)
Greatness	201	(2)
Grief	203	(1)
Habit	204	(1)
Happiness	204	(5)
Hardship	209	(1)
Hate	210	(1)
Health	211	(2)
Heart	213	(1)
Hell	214	(1)
Heroism	215	(1)
History	216	(6)
Hollywood	222	(2)
Hope	224	(3)
Humor	227	(1)
Husbands	228	(4)
Hypocrisy	232	(2)
Ideals	234	(1)
Ideas	235	(3)
Idleness	238	(1)
Ignorance	239	(5)
Imagination	244	(1)
Imitation	245	(1)
Independence	245	(1)
Individualism	246	(1)
Inflation	247	(1)
Insanity	248	(1)
Intelligence	249	(4)
Israel	253	(1)
Jealousy	254	(2)
Jobs	256	(4)
Journeys	260	(1)
Joy	261	(2)
Judgment	263	(2)
Justice	265	(1)
Kindness	266	(2)
Kisses	268	(1)
Knowledge	269	(5)
Language	274	(4)
Lateness	278	(1)
Laughter	279	(4)
Laws	283	(2)
Laziness	285	(2)
Learning	287	(4)
Leisure	291	(3)
Letters	294	(2)
Liberal	296	(1)
Liberty	297	(1)
Life	298	(13)
Listening	311	(1)
Literature	312	(2)
Loneliness	314	(1)
Love	315	(10)
Luck	325	(2)
Lying	327	(3)
Man	330	(2)
Manners	332	(3)
Marriage	335	(2)
Memory	337	(1)
Mind	338	(2)
Money	340	(2)
Morality	342	(2)
Music	344	(2)
Neighbor	346	(2)
Opinions	348	(2)
Opportunity	350	(1)
Optimism	351	(1)
Originality	352	(2)
Parents	354	(3)
Patience	357	(1)
Peace	358	(2)
Pleasure	360	(3)
Politics	363	(3)
Poverty	366	(2)
Power	368	(2)
Praise	370	(1)
Prejudice	371	(4)
Procrastination	375	(1)
Race and Racism	376	(2)
Reading	378	(1)
Reality	379	(2)
Reason	381	(1)
Religion	382	(3)
Reputation	385	(1)
Revenge	386	(1)
Riches	387	(4)
Right	391	(2)
Security	393	(1)
Self	394	(2)
Sex	396	(2)
Silence	398	(1)
Sincerity	399	(1)
Solitude	400	(2)
Sorrow	402	(1)
Success	403	(2)
Suffering	405	(2)
Talent	407	(2)
Talk	409	(1)
Taste	410	(1)
Taxes	411	(1)
Television	412	(2)
Temptation	414	(2)
Thought	416	(2)
Time	418	(1)
Travel	419	(1)
Troubles	420	(2)
Trust	422	(1)
Truth	423	(1)
Understanding	424	(1)
Universe	424	(2)
Vanity	426	(1)
Vice	427	(1)
Virtue	428	(2)
War	430	(3)
Wisdom	433	(1)
Wives	434	(2)
Woman	436	(6)
Words	442	(1)
Work	443	(2)
World	445	(2)
Youth	447	(2)
Index of Topics	449	(10)
Index of Sources	459