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Cynics, scholars, comedians, candidates, reporters, writers, philosophers, and just about everyone else finally have their say! Every generation has its wits, wags, pundits, punsters, and one-liner champions. And this marvelous collection of classic quotes from throughout history shows off the best of the best. For the first time, the three popular volumes of The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said--all 1,911 of them--are collected in one impressive book of wisdom. From Plato to Groucho, this comprehensive edition quotes some of the most quotable people who ever lived. They are the famous, the infamous, the little-known, and the unknown, inspired by life to comment on it and smart enough to be clever about it. Praise for 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."--Winston Churchill "You'll love this book and read its lines to helpless friends."--Dallas Morning News "A winner!"--The New York Daily News "A delightful assortment."--Atlanta Journal "Like eating peanuts--once you start it's hard to stop."--Forbes "[Robert] Byrne has a delicious sense of the ridiculous and a zest for fun. The humor roams the scale from the chuckle to the roar."--San Francisco Progress "Terrific! A real upper! An ideal gift."--Dear Abby… (más)
I read this over the course of several days as my bedside read. It's a lot of fun, and I'll hold on to it for future reference/enjoyment. A couple of my favorites:
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. (Redd Foxx)
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. (Socrates, 470-399 B.C.)
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. (Abraham Lincoln)
I can't believe that out of 100,000 sperm, you were the quickest. (Steven Pearl)( )
This book provides an irreverent balance to more serious quotation books. The best part is the index and the occassional "dialogs" between quotees. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Thou shalt not steal. Exodus 20:15 (ca. 700 B.C.)
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Primeras palabras
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
It's amazing how much wit, insight, and bile can be packed into a single short sentence.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This is a compilation of three previously published books, all edited by Robert Byrne, with a new introduction: The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1982) The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984) The Third and Possibly the Best 637 Things Anybody Ever Said (1986)
Cynics, scholars, comedians, candidates, reporters, writers, philosophers, and just about everyone else finally have their say! Every generation has its wits, wags, pundits, punsters, and one-liner champions. And this marvelous collection of classic quotes from throughout history shows off the best of the best. For the first time, the three popular volumes of The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said--all 1,911 of them--are collected in one impressive book of wisdom. From Plato to Groucho, this comprehensive edition quotes some of the most quotable people who ever lived. They are the famous, the infamous, the little-known, and the unknown, inspired by life to comment on it and smart enough to be clever about it. Praise for 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."--Winston Churchill "You'll love this book and read its lines to helpless friends."--Dallas Morning News "A winner!"--The New York Daily News "A delightful assortment."--Atlanta Journal "Like eating peanuts--once you start it's hard to stop."--Forbes "[Robert] Byrne has a delicious sense of the ridiculous and a zest for fun. The humor roams the scale from the chuckle to the roar."--San Francisco Progress "Terrific! A real upper! An ideal gift."--Dear Abby
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Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. (Redd Foxx)
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. (Socrates, 470-399 B.C.)
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. (Abraham Lincoln)
I can't believe that out of 100,000 sperm, you were the quickest. (Steven Pearl) (