Pearls of Wisdom
N/A, August 1987. Trade Paperback. Men take more pains to mask than to mend.--Benjamin Franklin. These and other sage words in a collection of the wisest sayings and most profound insights of our history.
Quotations
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The Heretic's Handbook of Quotations: Cutting Comments on Burning Issues
See Sharp Press, January 1992. Trade Paperback. This oversize book contains thousands of quotations on politics, sex, law, labor, capitalism, anarchism, women, religion, the arts, and 20 other subjects. Organized in chapters by subject, this book also contains an index, capsule biographies, and dozens of cartoons and illustrations. Hundreds of.....
The Faber Book of Epigrams & Epitaphs
Faber & Faber, 1977. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 291 pages. Over 700 entries from the sixteenth century to modern times. First paperback edition (first printing). A very good copy in wrappers (paperback). Provenance: Acquired from the estate of the singer, songwriter, and poet Rod McKuen, who sold millions of books.....
Baturrillo de paremiologia, o Tratado de frases celebres, apotegmas proverbiales y refranes, con aplicacion a las ciencias y en especial a la agricultura
Tip. de Calixto Alvarez Lozano, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. 207 pages. Quotations, proverbs, and sayings, mostly translated into Spanish from other languages. First edition (first printing). Minor staining to pages, else a very good copy in a period binding of quarter calf over decorated paper. Original wrappers not bound in.....
Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances
William Pickering, 1852. First Edition. Hardcover. cxlvi pages. 5-1/2 by 7 inches. The second book by Edward FitzGerald, best known for translating the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. This is an anonymously published collection of aphorisms. 'I meant it to be the best little book of its kind extant. I am.....
The best after-dinner stories
Folio Society, January 2003. Hardcover.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (17th Edition)
Little, Brown and Company, November 2002. Hardcover. First published in 1855, BARTLETT'S FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS has been completely updated and revised for the seventeenth edition by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. This 17th edition, under Kaplan's splendid direction, contains over 20,000 quotations, representing 2,500 authors, 90 of whom are new to.....
Familiar quotations; a collection of passages, phrases, and proverbs (11th ed., rev. and enl.)
Little, Brown and co, January 1937. Hardcover.
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