Phillips Treasury Of Humorous Quotations

Phillips' Treasury of Humorous Quotations is a catalog of more than 1,700 famous (and not so famous) sayings on life. This book is designed to be a ready reference for seminar and sermon preparation, and it's just plain entertaining. Inside you'll find entirely new material. Bob draws from a variety of resources throughout history that are sure to give writers, educators, ministers, and public speakers the perfect quote for their speech or paper.

A hilarious reference to more than seven hundred funny sayings and clever quotes includes the wit of Mark Twain, Dave Barry, Carol Burnett, and Ernest Hemingway, among many others. Reprint.

Hundreds of laugh-out-loud quotations from witty writers, comics, and more. Arranged by subject, from "Academia to "Youth and everything in between, this collection of funny quotes -- some famous and some less well known -- is a treasure-trove of original humor. Quoted figures include Mark Twain, Dave Barry, Carol Burnett, and Ernest Hemingway, among many others. Examples include: "I've had a wonderful evening, but this wasn't it." --Groucho Marx, when leaving a party "The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get you a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat." --Fran Lebowitz A perfect inexpensive impulse buy or stocking-stuffer! Hundreds of quotes for half the price of other humorous quote collections. "From the Trade Paperback edition.

Public speakers are sometimes stumped for a pithy or relevant humorous quote for a speech they are to give. This book contains hundreds of such quotes on many topics to assist them. This book is also appropriate for those just interested in reading a collection of easy-to-read humorous quotations.

“America is a land of wonders, in which everything is in constant motion and every change seems an improvement.... No natural boundary seems to be set to the efforts of man; and in his eyes what is not yet done is only what he has not yet attempted to do”—Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835). “Americans will pay a big price for an invention that will help them save time they don’t know what to do with”—Anonymous. This collection of quotations—both serious and humorous—about America is divided into 19 main topics: The Nation, The American People, Places, Nature, Mind, The Individual, Human Relations, Social Life, Culture and Media, Literature and Language, Religion and Belief, Past and Future, History, War and the Military, International Relations, Politics and Government, Law and Order, Business and Economy, and Food. Each main topic is divided into subtopics; for example, “Culture and Media” has these: Architecture, Art, Charlie Chaplin, Dance, Fashion, Intellectuals, Marilyn Monroe, Movies, Music, Elvis Presley, and Television. The author attributes each quote to its speaker, author or composer, and wherever possible, provides the date of the quote and the name of the work in which it was published. In the case of uncertainty about the exact date of a quote, the author provides the birth and death dates of the person to whom the quote is attributed. Also included are a keyword and subject index and a speaker index.