Product Description: As Emerson once said, "By necessity, by proclivity--and by delight, we all quote." We quote from the Bible and from Shakespeare, from Churchill and Will Rogers, we quote to amuse our friends, to spice our conversation or our writing, to lend authority to what we say...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

An updated and expanded edition of an authoritative compendium of quotations contains more than seventeen thousand quotes from 2,500 men and women from all walks of life, along with appendices covering the sayings of the nineties, advertising slogans, and more. UP.