| Kindle | Advanced Banter: The QI Book of Quotations |
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| ISBN-13 | 9780571233724 |
| Publication | 03 May 2025 |
| Number of Pages | 428 |
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Dig two graves Chinese ProverbTo refrain from imitation is the best revenge Marcus AureliusThere is no revenge so complete as forgiveness Josh BillingsThere is the risk you cannot afford to take there is the risk you cannot afford not to take Peter DruckerWhat you risk reveals what you value Jeanette WintersonWhy not go out on a limb That s where the fruit is Will RogersFour Rules for Life Show up Pay attention Tell the truth DOn t be attached to the results Angeles ArrienWe don t see things as they are We see things as we are Herb CohenI shut my eyes in order to see Paul GauguinThe greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.
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So shut up and deal 428 Quotes to remember Think like a man of action act like a man of thought Henri BergsonIntroducing Lite The new way to spell light but with 20% fewer letters Jerry SeinfeldInside every old woman is a young girl wondering what the hell happened Cora Harvey ArmstrongI m at an age when my back goes out than I do Phyllis DillerAmerica is a large friendly dog in a small room Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair Arnold ToynbeeHolding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned BuddhaThe world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything Albert EinsteinDiscussion is an exchange of knowledge argument an exchange of ignorance Robert QuillenI shut my eyes in order to see Paul GauguinArt is the only way to run away without leaving home Twyla TharpTo send light into the darkness of men s hearts such is the duty of the artist Robert SchumannIf there were no God.
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You will escape a hundred days of sorrow Chinese ProverbPeople sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf George OrwellFarming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you re a 1000 miles from the corn field Dwight D EisenhowerI am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world Mother TeresaExample is not the main thing in influencing others It is the only thing Albert SchweitzerThere s a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker Charles M SchulzThe camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera Dorothea LangeOne should photograph objects.
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But for what else they are Minor WhitePlay is the highest form of research Albert EinsteinThe supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play Arnold ToynbeeWe do not cease to play because we grow old We grow old because we cease to play George Bernard ShawNothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors Ben FranklinA poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning James DickeyA poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman Wallace StevensIt is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged GK ChestertonToo bad that all the people who know how to run this country are busy driving taxis and cutting hair George BurnsA man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let alone Henry David ThoreauYou possess only whatever will not be lost in a shipwreck El GhazaliWhat I say is that.
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John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd CBE is a British comedy writer and television producer Lloyd was Trinity College Cambridge where he befriended and later shared a flat with Douglas Adams He worked as a radio producer at the BBC 1974 1978 and created The News Quiz The News Huddlines To The Manor Born with Peter Spence and Quote Unquote with Nigel Rees He wrote Hordes of the Things with Andrew A P R Marshall co authored two episodes of Doctor Snuggles with Douglas Adams and then went on to co write the fifth and sixth episodes of the first radio series of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy with him Lloyd then worked as a TV producer at both the BBC and ITV 1979 1989 where he created Not the Nine OClock News with Sean Har John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd CBE is a British comedy writer and television producer Lloyd was Trinity College Cambridge where he befriended and later shared a flat with Douglas Adams He worked as a radio producer at the BBC 1974 1978 and created The News Quiz The News Huddlines To The Manor Born with Peter Spence and Quote Unquote with Nigel Rees He wrote Hordes of the Things with Andrew A P R Marshall co authored two episodes of Doctor Snuggles with Douglas Adams and then went on to co write the fifth and sixth episodes of the first radio series of The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy with him Lloyd then worked as a TV producer at both the BBC and ITV 1979 1989 where he created Not the Nine O Clock News with Sean Hardie and Spitting Image with Peter Fluck and Roger Law He also produced all 4 Blackadder series Lloyd was originally to have been the host of BBC topical news quiz Have I Got News For You but was replaced by Angus Deayton. Advanced banterful His first new TV series for 14 years QI short for Quite Interesting and a deliberate reversal of IQ starring Stephen Fry and Alan Davies began on 11 September 2003 at 10pm on BBC2 for a run of 12 episodes In its eighth series which started on BBC One in September 2010 Lloyd appeared as a panelist in one of the episodes All the episodes of QI including the pilot have been directed by Ian Lorimer Lloyd currently presents the radio series The Museum of Curiosity 2008 which he co created with producers Richard Turner Dan Schreiber and former co host Bill Bailey Lloyd was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting site_link Bought as a gift and very pleased with it it s an eclectic mix of quotes and general banter from the TV show and . Advanced Banter books Easy to dip into and very entertaining it covers the usual highbrow areas of classical music literature and so on but also fetches it into the mainstream with current and recent events and social commentary. Advanced Banter kindle unlimited Recommended 428 Nothing unexpected in a wayjust the same cornucopia of unconnected quotes you always get from the QI people How they find so many without much repetition is itself one of the universe s unsolved mysteries Yes it s a book for the toiletbut only in the guest bedroom so when there are no guests you can sneak in and enjoy it without being disturbed Excellent 428 A superior collection of quotes These two authors have been collecting quotes for than 10 years and have included the best of the best I really like the organization which mkaes it easy to use 428 Finally a book of non recycled quotations Even if it increases your carbon footprint go out and buy it already You can quote me on that 428 It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom indeed they create our courage and our wisdom It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn M Scott PeckWhen you worry you go over the same ground endlessly and come out the same place you started Thinking make progress from one place to another worry remains static The problem of life is to change worry into thinking and anxiety into creative action Harold B WalkerLife is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived Thomas MertonA man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself indeed he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself George Bernard ShawProverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience Miguel De CervantesQuality means doing it right when no one is looking Henry FordIt is not the answer that enlightens but the question Eugene IonescoYou can tell whether a man is clever by his answers You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions Naguib MahfouzThe best thing one can do when it s raining is to let is rain Henry Wadsworth LongfellowAlways read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it PJ O RourkeWe are all captives of the picture in our head our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists. Advanced Banter pdf merger Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life s vast flock of wild irrationalities Paul EldridgePut you hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour Sit with a pretty girl for an hour and it seems like a minute That s relativity Albert EinsteinI care not much for a man s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it Abe LincolnTrue religion is the life we lead not the creed we profess Louis NizerWhen you go out to seek revenge but thousands can think for one who can see To see clearly is poetry prophecy and religion on in one John RuskinThe fool sees not the same tree the wise man sees William BlakeIt is a terrible thing to see and have no vision Helen KellerThe whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you get to that the funnier you will be Jerry SeinfeldI have had trouble with myself than with any other man Dwight L MoodyWho in the world am I Ah that s the great puzzle Lewis CarrollFinding out who you are is the first step Accepting who you are can be the hard part Enhancing who you are is the fun part B Anne YounkerThe unexamined life is not worth living SocratesHe who knows others is learned He who knows himself is wise LaoziHe who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the Universe Marcus AureliusYou know that look women get when they want sex Me neither Steve MartinThere are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal particularly in women Chief among these is the Mercedes Benz 500 SL Lynn LavnerThe big differences between sex for money and sex for free is sex for money usually costs a lot less Brendan BehanAnd what is the Scientific Community doing about these problems young people They re cloning sheep Great Just what we need Sheep that look alike than they already do Thanks a lot Scientific Community Dave BarryThe Arctic expresses the sum of all wisdom silence Walter BauerAbove all keep it simple Auguste EscoffierSimplicity is the ultimate sophistication Leonardo DaVinciThe trouble with simple living is that though it can be joyful rich and creative it isn t simple Doris Janzen LangacreThe Seven Deadly Sins are Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Knowledge without character Business without morality Science without humanity Worship without sacrifice Politics without principle GandhiEverything that used to be sin is now a disease Bill MaherIf you think you are too small to be effective you have never been in bed with a mosquito Betty ReeseEnjoy the little things for one day yu may look back and realize there were the big things Robert BraultWorry gives a small thing a big shadow Swedish ProverbI cannot smell mothballs because it s so difficult to get their little legs apart Steve MartinOur language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone Paul TillichBe sincere be brief be seated Franklin D RooseveltThe secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending then have the two as close together as possible George BurnsThere is to life than increasing its speed GandhiDon t look for speed in a cheap horse be content if it neighs Hausa ProverbPeople forget how fast you did a job but they remember how well you did it General George S PattonBe not afraid of going slowly but only afraid of standing still Chinese ProverbSet your course by the stars not be the lights of every passing ship Gen Omar BradleyWhen it is darkest men see the stars Ralph Waldo EmersonEverything is held together with stories That is all that is holding us together stories and compassion Barry LopezSUccess is 99% failure Soichiro HondaSuccess is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm Winston ChurchillThe higher a monkey climbs the you see of its behind Gen Joseph StilwellIt is only at the tree loaded with fruit that people throw stones French ProverbSuccess is how high you bounce when you hit bottom Gen George S PattonOnly through suffering can we find ourselves Fyodor DostoevskyI know God will not give me anything I can t handle I just wish He didn t trust me so much Mother TeresaIn spite of all one hears to the contrary the act of suicide requires a certain courage of conviction or despair of which few persons are capable Pearl BuckDepend on the rabbit s foot if you will but remember it didn t work for the rabbit RE ShayThe wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder Ralph Waldo EmersonFor in the true nature of things if we rightly consider every green tree is far glorious than if it were made of gold or silver Martin LutherTrees are much like human beings and enjoy each other s company Only a few love to be alone Jens JensenThe tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way As a man is so he sees William BlakeThe best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago the second best time is now Chinese ProverbThe creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn Ralph Waldo EmersonThe axe forgets what the tree remembers American ProverbNo tree falls on the first stroke German ProverbWhen the axe came into the forest the trees all said Well at least the handle is one of us Turkish ProverbSuburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees then names streets after them Bill VaughanI love trees because they seem resigned to the way they have to live than other things do Willa CatherEverything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves Carl JungSearch others for their virtue and yourself for your vices Buckminster FullerI have found that the best way to get another to acquire a virtue is to impute it to him Winston ChurchillWealthy is like sea water the we drink the thirstier we become Arthur SchopenhauerI will tell you the secret to getting rich on Wall Street You try to be greedy when others are fearful And you try to be fearful when others are greedy Warren BuffetTo suppose as we all suppose that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave is like supposing that we could drink all day and keep absolutely sober Logan Pearsall SmithThere is no such thing as bad weather only inappropriate clothing Sir Ranulph FiennesDon t knock the weather 9 10 of the people couldn t start a conversation if it didn t change once in a while Frank Kin HubbardWhat is a weed A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen everything seems to be going against you remember that the airplane takes off against the wind not with it Henry FordKites rise highest against the wind not with it Winston ChurchillPeople are like stained glass windows They sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within Elizabeth Kubler RossWine is bottled poetry Robert Louis StevensonThose who love wisdom must investigate many things HeraclitusWisdom comes by disillusionment Gearge SantayanaTrue wisdom is less preseuming than folly The wise man doubteht often and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance AkhenatenWe don t receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us Marcel ProustKnowledge is proud that he has learned so much wisdom is humble that he knows no William CowperIt s so simple to be wise Just think of something stupid to say and then don t say it Sam LevensonKeep me away from the wisdom which does not cry the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which doesn t not bow before children Kahlil GibranA woman is like a tea bag It s only when she s in hot water that you realize how strong she is Nancy ReaganOne can to an almost laughable degree infer what a man s wife is like from his opinions about women in general John Stuart MillNo man who is concerned in doing a very difficult thing and doing it well ever loses his self respect George Bernard ShawHow vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live Henry David ThoreauThe best kind of writing and the biggest thrill in writing is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didn t know was in you Larry L KingWhen we encounter a natural style we are always surprised and delighted for we thought to see an author and found a man Blaise Pascal 428 
Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad name. Book Advanced banter jewelry Let the people think they govern and they will be governed Life is tough Three out of three people die there would be no atheists GK ChestertonThe capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention Julia Margaret CameronTell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are Jose Ortega Y GassetAll art is autobiographical the pearl is the oyster s autobiography Federico Fellini I replace art for children to appreciate this quote My children are my autobiography Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin That or a kick ass red lipstick Gwyneth PaltrowWhere lipstick is concerned the important thing is not the color but to accept God s final decision on where your lips end Jerry SeinfeldThere s nothing that can help you understand you own beliefs better than trying to explain them to an inquisitive child Frank ClarkThe worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones Joseph JoubertThe covers of this book are too far apart Ambrose BierceEntertainment is in fact the biggest cause of boredom in the modern world The a man is entertained the bored he grows Anthony DanielsBeware the barrenness of a busy life SocratesThey intoxicate themselves with work so they won t see how they really are Aldous HuxleyWhat the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly Richard BachWhen I m in Canada I feel this is what the world should be like Jane Fonda1000 s of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened Happiness never decreases by being shared BuddhaCuriosity is the wick in the candle of learning William A WardCharacter is destiny HeraclitusHe that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders must himself have a great reverence for his son John LockeStrength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands and then eat just one of the pieces Judith ViorstWhat you see before you my friend is the result of a lifetime of chocolate Katharine HepburnA clever person solves a problem A wise person avoids it Albert EinsteinIf this is coffee please bring me some tea if this is tea please bring me some coffee Abraham LincolnComedy is simply a funny way of being serious Peter UstinovThe wit makes fun of other persons the satirist makes fun of the world the humorist makes fun of himself James ThurberThe whole object of comedy is to be yourself and the closer you to to that the funnier you will be Jerry SeinfeldWhen a thing is funny search it for a hidden truth George Bernard ShawLife shrinks or expands in proportion to one s courage Anais NinLeap and the net will appear Julia Margaret CameronFacing it always facing it that s the way to get through Face it Joseph ConradIt had only one fault It was kind of lousy James ThurberPay no attention to what the critics say A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic Jean SibeliusThe important thing is not to stop questioning Albert EinsteinPeople die when curiosity goes Graham Swift. Book Advanced banter piercing Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire George Bernard ShawDon t tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won t respect you For years I used to wake up my daughter and say Melissa you ripped me to shreds Now go back to sleep Joan RiversI never travel without my diary One should always have something sensational to read in the train Oscar WildeTo say nothing especially when speaking is half the art of diplomacy Will DurantDiplomacy is the art of saying Nice doggie until you can find a rock Will RogersAh yes divorce from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man s genitals through his wallet Robin WilliamsA divorce is like an amputation you survive but there s less of you Margaret Atwood. EPub Advanced banter piercing To his dog every man is Napoleon hence the constant popularity of dogs Aldous HuxleyMen love with their eyes women love with their ears Zsa Zsa GaborSixty years ago I knew everything now I know nothing education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance Will DurantIf we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man s life sorry and suffering enough to disarm all hostility Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEnthusiasm is not contrary to reason It is reason on fire Peter MarshallRegarding exercise. Book Advanced banter meaning I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I m damned if I m going to use up mine running up and down a street Neil ArmstrongMy idea of exercise is a good brisk sit Phyllis DillerThe sum of the whole is this walk and be happy walk and be healthy Charles DickensSolvitur ambulando It is solved by walking Latin ProverbOne s eyes are what one is one s mouth what one becomes John GalsworthyFailure is the key to success Each mistake teaches us something Morihei Ueshiba founded Aikido Writing is a form of therapy sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write compose or paint can manage to escape the madness the melancholia the panic fear which is inherent in a human situation Graham GreenePeople living deeply have no fear of death Anais NinThere s a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot Steven WrightYou know you have forgiven someone when he or she has harmless passage through your mind Karyl HuntleyWe are what we repeatedly do Excellence then is not an act but a habit AristotleHabit is overcome by habit Thomas A KempisHappiness is a way of travel not a destination Roy GoodmanHappiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our graps but which if you will sit down quietly may alight upon you Nathaniel HawthorneHappiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony GandhiNo man can enter Heaven until he is first convinced he deserves Hell John W EverettI read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest If I did not know about God and sin would I go to hell No said the priest not if you did not know Then why asked the Eskimo did you tell me Annie DillardIf you are going through hell keep going Winston ChurchillPeople who are brutally honest get satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty Richard J NeehamHope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out Vaclav HavelHope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent Mignon McLaughlinWe are not human beings on a spiritual journey We are spiritual beings on a human journey Stephen CoveyThere may be said to be two classes of people in the world those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not Robert BenchleyStrong people have strong weaknesses Peter DruckerYou don t really understand human nature unless you know why a child on a merry go round will way at his parents every time around and why the p0arents will always wave back Bill TammeusYou are absolutely unique Just like everyone else Margaret MeadHumble mensee something divine in every other man and are endlessly foolishly incredibly merciful John RuskinHumility is the mother of giants One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak GK ChestertonHumility is attentive patience Simone WeilUnmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs Let not the unwary reader think me flippant for saying so it was Plato in his solemn old age who said it George SantayanaIdeas are like rabbits You get a couple and learn how to handle them and pretty soon you have a dozen of them John SteinbeckNo man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself Anthony TrollopeThere is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity Tom PetersSo far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence Bertrand RussellThere never was yet an uninteresting life Such a thing is an impossibility Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama a comedy and a tragedy Mark TwainPrior to the Internet the last technology that had any real effect on the way people sat down and talked together was the table Clay Shirkythe big money was never made in the buying or the selling The big money was made in the waiting Jesse LiverJoy is the simplest form of gratitude Karl BarthWe would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world Helen KellerBe kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle PlatoAlways be a little kinder than necessary JM BarrieHe that is kind is free though he is a slave he that is evil is a slave though he be a king St AugustineIf you can t be kind at least be vague Judith Martin Miss Manners To know that you do not know is best To pretend to know when you do not know is disease LaoziKnowledge comes but wisdom lingers Alfred Lord TennysonI am not young enough to know everything Blaise PascalDrawing on my fine command of language I said nothing Robert BenchleyStatus quo you know is Latin for the mess we re in Ronald ReaganThe human race has only one effective weapon and that is laughter Mark Twain. Book Advanced banter jewelry Among those whom I like or admire I can find no common denominator but among those whom I love I can all of them make me laugh WH AudenYou don t stop laughing because you grow old You grow old because you stop laughing Michael PritchardThe function of leadership is to produce leaders not followers Ralph NaderNo man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or to get all the credit for doing it Andrew CarnegieA boss creates fear a leader confidence A boss fixes blame a leader corrects mistakes A boss knows all a leader asks questions A boss makes work drudgery a leader makes it interesting A boss is interested in himself or herself a leader is interested in the group Russell H EwingThere is nothing notable in Socrates than that he found time when he was an old man to learn music and dancing and thought it time well spent Michel De MontaigneLife is a public performance on the violin in which you must learn the instrument as you go along EM ForsterIn three words I can sum up everything I ve learned about life It goes on Robert FrostPrejudice comes from being in the dark sunlight disinfects it Muhammad AliBe a good listener Unlike our mouth your ears will never get you in trouble Frank TygerThe first duty of love is to listen Paul TillichBegin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life SenecaTo live only for some future goal is shallow It s the sides of the mountain that sustain life not the top Robert PirsigMay you live every day of your life Jonathan SwiftIt s not the length of life but the depth of life Ralph Waldo EmersonTry to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost Henry JamesLife is not always a matter of holding good cards but sometimes of playing a poor hand well Robert Louis StevensonFor a long time it has seemed to me that life was about to begin Real Life But there was always some obstacle in the way something to be got through first some unfinished business time still to be served a debt to be paid then life would begin At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life Alfred D SouzaMy formula for living is quite simple I get up in the morning and I got to bed at night In between I occupy myself as best I can Cary GrantLogic like whiskey loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities Lord DunsanyLove will draw an elephant through a key hold Samuel RichardsonMother s love is peace It need not be acquired it need not be deserved Erich FrommYou do not have to deserve your mother s love You have to deserve your father s He s particular Robert FrostShallow men believe in luck Strong men believe in cause and effect Ralph Waldo Emerson. Advanced Banter ebookers I find the harder I work the luck I seem to have Thomas JeffersonInsanity doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results Albert EinsteinI don t suffer from insanity but enjoy every minute of it Edgar Allan PoeGod gave us memories so that we might enjoy roses in December JM BarrieThose who receive with most pains and difficulty remember best every one ting they learn being as it were burnt and branded on their minds PlutarchBe very very careful what you put into that head because you will never ever get it out Cardinal WolseyThere are only two ways to live your life One is as thought nothing is a miracle The other is as though everything is a miracle Albert EinsteinPain and suffering are inevitable in our lives but misery is an option Chip BeckAll I ask is a chance to prove that money can t make me happy Spike MilliganShe who forms the souls of the young is greater than any painter or sculptor Saint John ChrysostomEvery beetle is a gazelle in the eyes of its mother Moroccan ProverbMy father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of church going Aldous HuxleyWat do you get when you play country music backwards You get your girl back your dog back your pick up back and you stop drinking Louis SaaberdaNobody realises that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal Albert CamusThe only normal people are the ones you don t know very well Joe AncisBlessed is the man who having nothing to say abstains from giving evidence of the fact George EliotOne of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say Will DurantOpera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding he sings Ed GardnerPeople seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character Ralph Waldo EmersonPainting is silent poetry and poetry is painting that speaks SimonidesEvery artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures Henry Ward BeecherThere are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you Peter De VriesSelective ignorance a cornerstone of child rearing You don t put kids under surveillance Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze Garrison KeillorParents are not interested in justice they re interested in quiet Bill CosbyAdopt the pace of nature her secret is patience Ralp Waldo EmersonEverything comes to him who hustles while he waits Thomas EdisonIf you are patient in a moment of anger not only for what they are if a fellow really likes potatoes he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow AA MilneIn prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart GandhiIn matters of style swim with the current in matters of principle stand like a rock Thomas Jefferson 428 This is very much a book for dipping in and out of and not something you d want to try to read all the way through from front to back as it s just a list of quotations arranged under subject headings There are some familiar ones in here but I found that there were than enough quotations that were new to me to make for an entertaining and sometimes enlightening experience 428 This is a perfectly respectable collection of quotations Anyone expecting it to live up to the sheer brilliance of the Q. Advanced Banter pdf editor I television show will be disappointed however Their sales pitch is that it is a cut above all other such collections they don t explicitly say because we re smarter but that s obviously what they mean It s not There are some gems some duds among the quotations But here is an example of where they follow the Q. Book Advanced banterra bank I pattern which is to avoid the standard expected answer in favor of something esoteric and interesting Under the index heading daffodils there are five quotations But because they re all sophisticated like and smarter than your average bear Wordsworth is never mentioned Why do I feel the entire daffodils section was constructed and inserted to make exactly that point Why does any book of quotations need five entries for daffodil It s not a bad book but it s not a particularly good one either But you should still seek out the Q. Book Advanced banterra I shows on YouTube Most are awesome 428 Not just the usual suspects this anthology of quotes is thoughtful surprising and despite its brevity remarkably rich and wide ranging in its selections The title quote for example is by Victor Cousins a 19th century French philosopher three surprises there time nationality and occupation Really A French philosopher from the 19th century with a 20th or 21st century stand up comedian s deadpan humor The editors toss in some mini commentaries on selected contributors helpful ironic or just amusing About Tony Petito who said In most instances all an argument proves is that two people are present they write Listed everywhere against this one quote with no other details provided he might be an arts administrator in New Jersey the founding artistic director of Singapore Repertory Theater or a singer in an a cappela group on Long Island One never knows do one Other opportunities to assist are left untouched There is no note for example regarding whom Robert Schumann was lauding with Hats off gentlemen a genius Was it himself or someone else It means something different When Fats Waller says of Art Tatum Ladies and gentlemen I play piano but God is in the house much is said of both Mr Tatum and Mr Waller Thanks to the miracle of Google Schumann was referring to Chopin Philosophers writers comedians politicians artists scientists musicians and many near anonymous and anonymous folks are included here Other than making sure that as many of former President Bush W linguistic embarrassments are captured there seems no agenda to the compilation It mixes the inspirational with the cynical the profound with the ridiculous an obscenely funny quote from Steve Martin about mothballs the witty and the foolish the self deprecating with the bombastic Some random favorites Facing it always facing it that s the way to get through Face it Joseph Conrad We are here on Earth to do good to others What the others are here for I don t know W. Book Advanced banter meaning H Auden I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm Calvin Coolidge These are my principles and if you don t like them well I ve got others Groucho Marx The future is made of the same stuff as the present Simone Weill There are two rules for success 1 Never tell everything you know Roger H Lincoln Emerson Goethe Joubert the Greeks Einstein and Mrs Einstein Thurber Wilde King Gandhi Churchill and all the others are here So too is Stephen Wright and alas Jack Handey one surreally funny and the other so really not Unlike many quote books that are useful reference works offering browsing pleasures this one is enjoyable to read straight through because of the editors fondness for humor and because the arranging of quotes by theme and the sequencing of them within themes frequently results in an almost narrative flow There are some errors here and there a quote about trees by Willa Cather is uncredited Getrude Stein is said to have been from Oak Park Illinois where Hemingway hailed from but not Stein one or two contributors didn t make it into the index but minor stuff in a book that is major pleasure 428
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