1001 Smartest Things Ever Said
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Tags: Contemporary, Quotations
ISBN-13:9781592287888
Description
In this witty collection you will find quotations grouped in categories that reflect the range of human existence, hopes, and achievement:
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
Quotes
"This is a book full of smart things that I'm sure I'll keep handy in the coming months and years."
—Tavis Smiley, National Public Radio
Extended Copyright Information
Copyright 2004 by Steven D. Price
Initial Publication by The Lyons Press,
an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
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About the Author
Steven D. Price, a consulting editor of The Lyons Press, is the author of more than twenty-three books, including 1001 Smartest Things Ever Said, 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.
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The future you shall know when it has come; before then forget it.
One's own thought is one's world. What a person thinks is what he ...
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