Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

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Bortlett's Familiar Quotations, the classic and indispensable reference, has, for the sixteenth edition, been completely revised and updated by preeminent Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. This distinguished new edition, the most thorough revision in decades, contains 340 authors new to Bartlett's, and isan unrivaled resource not for just who said it, but alsó for who said it first. Bartlett's Sixteenth is truly a map through our culture and history. Here is a sampling of the more than 1,600 new quotations, ranging from classic to contemporary sources: Sell when you can, you are not for all markets. -William Shakespeare An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind. -Saint Bonaventure Yellow eat, black eat, as long as it catches mice, it is a good eat. -Deng Xiaoping Somé of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -Glória Steinem Beam me up, Scotty. -Anonymous/Star Trek fans A physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect... Tovább

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Bortlett's Familiar Quotations, the classic and indispensable reference, has, for the sixteenth edition, been completely revised and updated by preeminent Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Justin Kaplan. This distinguished new edition, the most thorough revision in decades, contains 340 authors new to Bartlett's, and isan unrivaled resource not for just who said it, but alsó for who said it first. Bartlett's Sixteenth is truly a map through our culture and history. Here is a sampling of the more than 1,600 new quotations, ranging from classic to contemporary sources: Sell when you can, you are not for all markets. -William Shakespeare An example from the monkey: The higher it climbs, the more you see of its behind. -Saint Bonaventure Yellow eat, black eat, as long as it catches mice, it is a good eat. -Deng Xiaoping Somé of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. -Glória Steinem Beam me up, Scotty. -Anonymous/Star Trek fans A physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plánt vines. -Frank Lloyd Wright The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. -Steve [Stephen Bantu] Biko Go ask Alice/When she's ten feet tall. -Grace Slick In politics, ifyouwantanythingsaid.askaman. Ifyou want anythingdone, ask a woman. -Margaret Thatcher "Classic." A book which people praise and don't read. -Mark Twain Vissza