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  • Paperback: 592 pages
  • Publisher: Ebury Press (2 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0091909201
  • ISBN-13: 978-0091909208
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 15.2 x 4.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 378,954 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees,' as William Blake so aptly put it. What he probably meant, being a publisher and a printer himself, was that the wise man cuts down the tree and turns the resultant paper into a one-size-fits-all book packed with the sagest advice, quips and quotations from some of the wisest and funniest people whose counsel you could ever wish to hear. "A Word from the Wise" is a one-stop shop with over 6,000 quotes. It's a vast resource, but every one is a gem, from such knowledgeable souls as Hunter S Thompson, The Talmud, Dorothy Parker, and Daffy Duck. With each quote handily placed within every possible category you could think of, and with more quotes in every genre than anywhere else, "A Word From the Wise" is a must for anyone who thinks they could do with knowing a little bit or a lot more. 'A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.' - The Talmud. 'Imagination is more important than knowledge.' - Albert Einstein. 'If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.' - John Paul Getty. 'Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.' - George Bernard Shaw. 'Women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition.' - Timothy Leary. 'A narcissist is someone better-looking than you are.' - Gore Vidal.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "The only difference between a Rut and a Grave are their dimensions." Ellen Glasgow, 31 Dec 2008
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A little less worthy than the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this 550 page directory is listed alphabetically, by category: ability, death, fate, youth, Zen, etc. It achieves a good balance of humo(u)r from both sides of the Atlantic, as befits an author who splits her time between the UK and the US. The most prolific contributors are Woody Allen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stanislaw J. Lec, H. L. Mencken, George Bernard Shaw, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and, of course, The Simpsons. Shakespeare and the Bible hardly got a look in!

Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist; Wikipedia is a very useful accompaniment to this book, as it provides no clues as to who the people quoted are. Her contribution is a thought provoking one for the turn of the year, I thought. Or perhaps I prefer Spike Milligan: "There is a time to live, a time to die, a time to laugh, and at no time are the three of them very far apart."
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