Quotations category: 2735 books
The Quotable Hitchens
From Alcohol to Zionism--The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Over the past few decades, the bestselling author of Hitch-22 has crisscrossed the globe debating religious scholars, Catholic clergy, rabbis, and devout Christians on the existence of God--appearances that have attracted thousands of people on both sides of the issue. He has been invited to talk...
by A Non
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
‘Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.’ Red Buttons
WISE WORDS FOR FATHERS
Being a dad is great, but nobody ever said it was easy. This book is packed with inspiring and witty quotations to help you keep going through the hard times and enjoy fatherhood in all its glory.
by Tabitha Carrington
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2015
Hundreds of funny quotes by famous people that will tickle your funny bone and make your brain's humor center tingle. No anonymous quotes here and no boring quotes allowed. Here's a few examples:"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."- Winston Churchill“Silence...
The Great Thoughts, Revised and Updated
From Abelard to Zola, from Ancient Greece to Contemporary America, the Ideas That Have Shaped the History of the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Upon its publication, George Seldes's The Great Thoughts instantly took its place as a classic--a treasure house of the seminal ideas that have shaped the intellectual history of the world down through the ages. Seldes, a pivotal figure in the history of American journalism and a tireless researcher,...
Bite-Size Einstein
Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The kindly, white-heaired old fellow with the bushy mustache once called "the world's grandfather," Albert Einstein was easily the twentieth century's most remarkable and revered man of science. His leaps of imagination changed forever the way we look at the universe. He gained international...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
In this witty collection you will find quotations grouped in categories that reflect the range of human existence, hopes, and achievement:
Life and Death (And Some of What Happens in Between)
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
—James Thurber
Love...
Treasures of My Mind
A Book of Quotations
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
This is the age of self-expression, thanks to the multiplicity of social media. Self-publishing is what I would refer to as the high end of social media where persons like myself can express our thoughts with meaning and freedom. We dont have to wait on the high gods of the publishing world to give...
by Polly Fielding
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
The act of compassion is one of the nobler qualities of the human race. It is defined as the ability to feel and respond sensitively to the suffering of another. When we show or receive compassion, we experience a sense of the interdependence of humanity. We see it demonstrated daily in many...
by Richard Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
For many people in the English-speaking world, Victor Hugo’s name immediately brings up his novels The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Misérables. Their enduring success has overshadowed his many other achievements: he was a playwright, poet, politician and philosopher. And above all, he was a...
The Wit and Wisdom of John F. Kennedy
An A-to-Z Compendium of Quotations
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996
Though he did not live long enough to write his memoirs, John Fitzgerald Kennedy left behind a legacy of wit and wisdom that still informs the lives and hopes of the American people today. Known for his courage and charisma, he embodied the youthful, optimistic spirit of the mid-20th century American....
by Winston Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2014
This book brings together almost 200 of Sir Winston Churchill´s most striking quotations and thoughts, ranging from self-help and personal motivation to deeper considerations on knowledge, history and the future of humanity and, last but not least, his witty replicas and humorous confessions about his personal life.
by
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
This entertaining collection gathers together William Shakespeare's wisest and wittiest quotations. Quotable Shakespeare proves that brevity is the soul of wit and is sure to delight all lovers of the Bard's uniquely perceptive and influential works.
by W. J. Rock
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2010
Handbook for Civilization is a book of wisdom helpful for life in todays world. It consists of philosophical quotations and sayings for the readers consideration. Thinkers from various times and cultures are presented. It is essentially a book about values and ideas, such as culture, education, freedom,...
Wit and Wisdom of the American Presidents
A Book of Quotations
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
"I know only two tunes," said Ulysses S. Grant. "One of them is Yankee Doodle and the other isn't." Jimmy Carter observed: "Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread." And Warren Harding complained: "The White House is a prison. I can't get away from the men who dog...