1001 Smartest Things Ever Said

by Edited by Steven D. Price

Copyright 2004 by Steven D. Price All Rights Reserved.

Categories:  Contemporary  Quotations

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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.

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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