Best Quotations for All Occasions: Your Key to Wit & Wisdom-A Special Selection of Enduring Quotations from the Best That Has Been Written and Said

by Lewis C. Henry (Editor)

If you want to be the life of the party, if you're making a speech, writing a paper, looking for a telling phrase, or simply reading for pleasure, turn the pages of this incomparable treasure trove for a superb, up-to-date collection of popular quotations. Here is poetry and prose, songs and maxims, utterances both great and delightfully to the point. Arranged alphabetically by subject and source to give you the quotation you need in an instant, there is also a handy selective authors' index. As useful as a dictionary, and as amusing as a witty friend, BEST QUOTATIONS FOR ALL OCCASIONS is a one-stop encyclopedia of the writings and teaching of the world's greatest minds.

Genres: Reference, Nonfiction

557 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1945

Reviews

[Alejandro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Learning never exhausts the mind!


THE JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES...

Books about quotations are several out there and I won't claim that this at hand is the best in the field, but certainly is a good choice about it.

Obviously I bought it quite some time ago, way before of that thing called "internet" that you must hear about it, it seems that it will become quite trendy...

...so, maybe a book about quotations seems outdated when you can find quotes about anything online.

However, as I explained you, I bought this book back then, in 1998, so don't be harsh on me.

And since I still have it the book, well, I thought it was a fair idea to comment about it.

[Reagan Faith Waggoner · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers. – Henry VI

There was a little girl, and she had a little curl, right in the middle of her forehead; when she was good she was very, very good, when she was bad she was horrid. -Longfellow

Every burned book enlighten the world. Emerson

Advertisements contain the only truth to be relied on in a newspaper. -Jefferson

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. Helen Keller

They are able because they think they are able. -Virgil, Aeniad

[Lucinda · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fun book to read with your best friend, or even with anyone you can laugh with, and be chagrinned with. Some quotes are silly, some are sadly true, and some are just downright puzzling.

[Sidharth Vardhan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is third best collection of quotes ever made - after Wikiquotes and Goodreads.

[Jared · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a gem. The quotations are eclectic and interesting.

[Theresa · Rating 2 out of 5]

as a distraction my sophomore year i collected quotations