People say that a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes a mighty quotation
is worth more than a thousand pictures. Words have the ability to express thoughts, and
also the power to make us laugh. It is when these two abilities are skillfully combined
that a special kind of quotes that we adore emerges.
This book contains a selection of 333 such quotations, carefully selected in a strict
editorial progress--they are mostly short, intelligent, funny, often sharp and sarcastic
and most importantly, quotable.
There are many books on the market, as well as freely, accessible websites, that will
allow you to find quotes related to given subject. You'll find thousands or even tens
of thousands of quotes there, but most of them are of mediocre quality and hardly any
of them can be used in a conversation, in a speech, or in a written essay.
That's why I decided to fight my way through this jungle of quotes and compile the best
of them in a book that can be read from cover to cover. I believe that dividing the
quotes up in categories would make reading the book rather dull ( I'd compare it to
eating the main course and all the sides separately instead of in a delicious mix), so
I decided not to do so. If you want to find a quote and you know approximately what
the quote was about, it is generally easier to find it online using a search engine
rather than trying to locate the source where you read the quote for the first time.
Also, great care has been put into finding the original author of each quote. If the
original author of a quote remains in obscurity, he or she is listed as Anonymous. If a
quote is attributed to an author by modern sources (even if contemporary sources are
missing) the name written here accords with this modern attribution.
I wish you a pleasant reading experience and hope you will enjoy reading the book as
much as I enjoyed writing it.
The editor