3,500 Good Quotes for Speakers

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Summary: Highly useful and thought provoking
Review: Good content. Able to find useful quotations for presentations. In addition I really enjoyed browsing for pleasure and a few good laughs.

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Summary: Good quotes, but not comprehensive
Review: I added many (80+) quotations to my collection from this book, however, as per the title, it is not comprehensive. It's worth reading since (per page 197, quoting Benjamin Disraeli) "The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotation." Some of the quotes are well known (e.g. by Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, or George Bernard Shaw) but quite a few are not. Many are funny--better than a TV sitcom. Some of my favorites are:
p. 68: Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. Herbert Hoover.
p. 79b: If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. George Bernard Shaw
p. 89b: If your outgo exceeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall.
p. 154b: Misers aren't fun to live with, but they make wonderful ancestors. David Brenner
p. 165a: The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers. Thomas Jefferson
p. 172: Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Ogden Nash
p. 173: Everything comes to he who hustles while he waits. Thomas A. Edison
p. 194: It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan
p. 196: The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think. H. L. Mencken
p. 202: The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. Oliver Wendell Holmes
p. 212: One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. Elbert Hubbard
p. 228: He uses statistics as a drunken man use lampposts-for support rather than for illumination. Andrew Lang
p. 244: If everybody thought before they spoke, the silence would be deafening. Gerald Barzan

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Summary: Worth the price paid but not very comprehensive.
Review: The quotes are very well organized but not as thorough as expected. A good quick reference guide but if you are in need of quotes on a regular basis this one isn't as complete as expected.