Pearls of Wisdom: A Harvest of Quotations from All Ages

by Jerome Agel

Overview

"Men take more pains to mask than to mend."—Benjamin Franklin. These and other sage words in a collection of the wisest sayings and most profound insights of our history.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780060962005
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	09/16/1987
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.12(h) x 0.36(d)

About the Author

Jerome Agel's more than forty major books include collaborations with Marshall McLuhan, Carl Sagan, Stanley Kubrick, Herman Kahn, and Issac Asimov. His most recent works include the nonfiction novel Deliverance in Shanghai and The U.S. Constitution for Everyone.

Read an Excerpt

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Paul Valery

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

To speak of "mere words" is much like speaking of "mere dynamite."

C. J. Ducasse

A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing to do.

Megiddo Message

The excellent is new for ever.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pearls of Wisdom. Copyright © by Jerome Agel. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.