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"Quoteable Quotes"
This book is everything I hoped it would be... The service was fast and the item arrived in great condition. I am very satisfied with this purchase.

"Wonderful Collection of Quotes"
In this small book - about 200 pages - you'll find few thousand quotes for just about any occasion - to spice up your writings, your speeches or simply to enjoy their wit and wisdom.

Here are some examples:

"While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster." - Abitail Van Buren

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Nothing ever built arose to touch the skies unless some man dreamed that it should, some man believed that it could, and some man willed that it must." - Charles Kettering

"The human capacity to fight back will always astonish doctors and philosophers. It seems, indeed, that there are no circumstances so bad and no obstacles so big that man cannot conquer them." - Jean Tetreau

"It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
- Charles Dudley Warner

"Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter" - Julius Comroe Jr.


"This is the best of many such "quote books" i've read."


I picked this book as one of a set of three.The first one I read was Power Quiz Book;see my review of July 14th, 2004,which was also excellent.Because of that book,I was hoping this one would be just as good.I wasn't disappointed;it too was excellent.
I have a small collection of books on sayings,one-liners,or whatever you choose to call them and this is one of the best ;especially for its size ,coverage and organization.
Just to wet your appetite here are a few of my favorites from this little tome.
"Integrity has no need for rules."
"The real secret of Patience is to find something to do in the
meantime."
"There are no menial jobs,just menial attitudes."
"Give me the benefit of your convictions,if you have any,but
keep your doubts to yourself for I have enough of my own."
"Every man has the right to be wrong in his opinions but no
man has the right to be wrong in his facts."
"Forever is a long time,but not as long as it was yesterday."
"Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and
discovering the farmer's daughter."
And finally one for book lovers.
"Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else
that so beautifully furnishes a house."

"Samples of Great Quotes and Insight. A Fantastic Compilation"
This wonderful compilation from Reader's Digest was given to me as a gift, and the gift is the wisdom, insight, and inspiration that came from people from many lands, heritages, and walks of life. The quotes in this book cover the gamut of life. Here below are just a few of my favorites:

"You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing." - Michael Pritchard

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl G. Jung

"The very essence of leadership is that you have a vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet." - Theodore Hesburgh

"To err is human; to admit it is superhuman." - Doug Larson
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." - Henri Bergson

"The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together." - Robert C. Dodds

This book makes a wonderful gift for anyone who needs quotes for any reason, or even to just soak up the wisdom within. Highly useful, and wise!
Enjoy! Barbara Rose, author of `If God Was Like Man'

"Great survey of sayings from around the world"
For some reason, I have always thought of Reader's Digest as "lite" on literary value; I picked up Reader's Digest's Quotable Quotes based only on strong recommendations from a friend. Otherwise, I would have passed it over in favor of a book on "heartwarming expressions" made specifically for scrapbookers, as that was my purpose for hunting up quotable material.

I didn't expect the range of authors quoted here to be as wide and as richly reperesentative as it is. There are contemporary writers, classic authors, ancient proverbs from all over the world, religious sayings, and truisms from historical figures and current celebrities (although very little from the Bible, which surprised me). The topics these quotes cover are also varied on aspects of life. Take a look at the table of contents:
Within Ourselves
People Together
Our Better Side
For Better or Worse
When We Act
The Art of Conversation
Civilization's Gift
The Nature of Life
The Natural World
The World of Nations
Despite being brief and, ahem, digestible, this book manages to touch upon ideas and beliefs examined from several angles, some of them droll and humorous. In any event, a deliberate reading of Quotable Quotes will provide food for thought and could spark quite a few conversations in your household. Come to think of it, this book of quotes is almost like a short course in world philosophy!

I'm glad that I went for a more general-purpose book of quotes now, as it will have myriad uses aside from being a great source for my scrapbook pages.
-Andrea, aka Merribelle.