From the celebrated author of The Joys of Yiddish comes this delectable collection of more than 5,000 wisecracks, ad-libs, puns, malapropisms, and one-liners. "A big, sprawling funny book . . . apt, wonderfully precise."--The Philadephia Inquirer.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A very funny, often profound compendium.,
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This review is from: Leo Rosten's Carnival of Wit: From Aristotle to Woody Allen (Mass Market Paperback)
I was looking for a joke book for a friend and found this. It's organized by subject, and has pithy, profound, and hilarious quotes by everyone from Napoleon through Mark Twain (of course), and from Hindu proverbs to Woody Allen. Both my husband and I loved it, and we're getting more as gifts.
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This review is from: Leo Rosten's Carnival of Wit: From Aristotle to Woody Allen (Mass Market Paperback)
This is a very nice collection of quotations. It's fairly comprehensive and organized topically--though it could benefit from an index of authors. I added over 100 of its entries to my quote collection. Many are humorous, and a great many have wisdom and significance. Some of my favorites are:
p. 53: One beautiful morning, El Greco sat in a room with the curtains tightly drawn. Invited to go out for a walk, El Greco said, "No, the sunlight would disturb the light that is shining within me." p. 181: Flattery is all right if you don't inhale. Adlai Stevenson p. 186: Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something. Plato p. 258: Journalism: a profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. Lord Northcliffe p. 279: The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true. James Branch Cabell p. 328: In America, the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience. Oscar Wilde p. 341: Thanks to the interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. Charles Kuralt p. 344: There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program: your tax dollars will go farther. Wernher von Braun p. 406: Hangover: The Wrath of Grapes. Dorothy Parker p. 439: The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Mark Russell p. 505: They told me that the fish...were cold-blooded and felt no pain. But they were not fish who told me. Heywood Broun p. 508: I have made this long letter because I haven't the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
The quotes I've read in this book are hilarious.,
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This review is from: Leo Rosten's Carnival of Wit: From Aristotle to Woody Allen (Mass Market Paperback)
I haven't read the whole book, just seen a lot of the quotes on this online newsletter I get. I would also like to say that reading the other 2 reviews here cracked me up. Obviously, the one from Indiana was not as educated as the one from Colarado. Perhaps he/she didn't understand some of the quotes. I personally agree with the one from Colarado. The quotes are very funny and witty. Leo Rosten wrote quite a few of them himself. Hope you enjoy!
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Wit is a scintillating (and rare) form of humor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Yogi Berra, Casey Stengel, The New Yorker, Milton Berle, Henry James, Miss West, Beverly Hills, Jack Benny, Los Angeles, Senator Kefauver, Sour Notes, New England, Supreme Being New!
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Wit is a scintillating (and rare) form of humor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Yogi Berra, Casey Stengel, The New Yorker, Milton Berle, Henry James, Miss West, Beverly Hills, Jack Benny, Los Angeles, Senator Kefauver, Sour Notes, New England, Supreme Being New!
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- George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (George Bernard Shaw Ser No 92) by H. L. Mencken on page 15, page 196, and page 446
- The Joys of Yinglish by Leo Calvin Rosten in Front Matter
- The Joys of Yiddish by Leo Rosten in Front Matter
- Religions of America by Leo Rosten in Front Matter
- Caesar and Cleopatra : A History by George Bernard Shaw on page 444
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