Product Description: History in Quotations is an exciting and original work of historical reference. From the Iraq of ancient Babylon to the Iraq war of 2003 - taking in the histories of Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia in a grand global sweep - it uses the innovative medium of some 9000 chronologically arranged quotations to tell the story of more than 5000 years of recorded history...read more

Presents a collection of epigrams, arranged by themes, from a variety of literary figures.

Product Description: In this volume M.J. Cohen has gathered over 12,000 quotations, arranging them under 800 themes, from age to youth, advice to worry, and martyrs to millionaires. The quotations are listed alphabetically by author under each theme. Thus Dolly Parton rubs shoulders with Marcel Proust on the theme of "body parts", Aesop with Badeb-Powell on "anticipation", and Groucho Marx with Moliere on "doctors and nurses"...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A companion to Penguin's existing dictionaries of quotations and modern quotations, but ordered alphabetically by theme rather than by author. There are 12,000 entries with a comprehensive author index to make this book easy to use.

Product Description: This is a companion and source book for the reader, the writer, the after-dinner speaker, the crossword puzzle solver and the browser. The dictionary can be used in two ways: by turning up key words such as life, god, love or money or by making direct use of the first section where authors, and their memorable statements, are listed alphabetically...read more

Product Description: This volume of memorable quotations, old and new, will be useful for competition entries and crosswords, speeches or letters or purely to dip into for entertainment.

Provides a compilation of more than four thousand quotations expressed by renowned figures of the twentieth century