Amazon.com Review
A handy bon mot is a beautiful thing. For launching a speech, wrapping up a term paper, concluding an argument, or merely waxing sophisticated in front of those you'd like to impress, there's nothing like a well-turned phrase with the authoritative stamp of having been uttered originally by someone else. Webster's quips and epigrams are tidily arranged in more than 200 categories--everything from "Acting" ("Acting is not an important job in the scheme of things. Plumbing is." --Spencer Tracy) to "Youth" ("Youth is wasted on the young." --George Bernard Shaw). It's a compact book, light enough to browse one-handed, small enough to fit in a purse, and full of adages, anecdotes, apothegms, and axioms--more than 2,500 in all, and cross-referenced by topic and author--that are absorbing, browsable, and abundantly quotable. --Stephanie Gold
Product Description
Professional writers and speakers, students and business professionals will find this book indispensable for enlivening articles, speeches, reports, or presentations. Over 200 subject categories group more than 4,000 quotations for quick and easy location and selection. Quotes are also extensively cross-referenced and indexed by both subject and author. The Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations is a must in any personal reference library.
