- Paperback: 480 pages
- Publisher: Ballantine Books; Reissue edition (Sep 12 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0449902854
- ISBN-13: 978-0449902851
- Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 2.7 x 20.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 726 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,425,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Plato to Groucho, this comprehensive edition features some of the most quotable people who ever lived. They are the famous, infamous, the little-known, and the unknown, inspired enough by life to comment on it, and smart enough to be clever about it.
"Like eating peanuts--once you start it's hard to stop."
FORBES Magazine
"You'll love this book and read its lines aloud to helpless friends."
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Like eating peanuts--once you start it's hard to stop."
FORBES Magazine
"You'll love this book and read its lines aloud to helpless friends."
DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Ingram
From the sagacity of the ancient philosophers to the urbanity of Groucho Marx, 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. Illustrated.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
"Nothing ever goes away",
By loce_the_wizard "loce_the_wizard" (Lilburn, GA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (Paperback)
Apparently this quote from Barry Commmoner was correct. Where on earth did Byrne find some of this stuff?There are dozens of well-known compilations of quotations, and hundreds of lesser known ones. This book tends more toward the humorous or cynical side than the more serious collections such as Bartlett's or the Penguin Dictionary of Quotations. And though those two volumes belong on any professional writer's collection, it's a toss up whether you need these 1,911 quotes, especially given how mean-spirited many of these quotes are. For instance, we have Bhagwhan Shree Rajneesh noting, "Jesus was a crackpot." Or Leo Tolstoy opining "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal," a quote the author was so fond of that he included it on at least four different pages. Of course, there are those moments when material of this ilk fits the bill. One big strike is that the book is not that easy to use. You have to rely on the indices to find quotes by either the person's name or by topic. Then, the topics sometimes do not seem, in my estimation, to match the quotes. The author also saw fit to cram a bunch of his own quotes throughout the text. Oddly, he didn't bother checking with you or me to see what wit we might have dispensed. If you run across this book used, find one in the remainders section, or see a discarded copy on a city bus, you may wish to snare it. Otherwise, you can do just as well with some of the Web sites that provide quotes. (Incidentally, I think 2 and a half stars might be a more accurate rating.)
3.0 out of 5 stars
The 1811 Best Things Anybody Ever Said,
By "amblin10" (Jacksonville, Florida USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (Paperback)
Would rate another star if it weren't for the author placing his own 100-or-so quotable quotes in the midst of the truly classic zingers.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not the best quotes ever!,
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This review is from: 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (Paperback)
I was disappointed that I had never heard of 50% of the people that are quoted in this book. I was expecting more exciting and funny quotes from famous people from all areas. What happened to great quotes from presidents, rock stars, movie stars, and scientists? There are so many people who said great things that are left out of this book. There has to be a better book of quotes out there!
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