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"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."
- George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)
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ZIN Product Number: 10073680
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 7th ed., 800 pages
Edition: REVISED
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
ISBN: 0316082678
Release Date: Jan 9, 2000
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
From Hank Aaron to King Zog, from Mao to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a collection of more than 4,000 entries and the best source for anecdotes on the market.
| | | | From The Publisher
Featuring more than 2,000 people past and present from around the world, in all fields of endeavor, these short anecdotes provide remarkable insights into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the solemn, they span ancient history, recent politics, modern science, and the arts. Each entry includes a brief biography followed by one or more notable, lively, and insightful anecdotes, which always deliver a punch of the unexpected.
General Editors Clifton Fadiman and André Bernard have assembled the definitive anthology of anecdotes -- a gold mine for students, a great resource for public speakers, and a bookshelf necessity for the curious browser. Thoroughly researched and conveniently organized, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes conducts the reader on an informal tour through history and human nature at their most entertaining and instructive. From Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes:
Alexander the Great was puzzled to find Diogenes examining a heap of human bones. "What are you looking for?" he inquired.
"I am searching for the bones of your father," replied the philosopher, "but I cannot distinguish them from those of his slaves."
(DIOGENES 6)
When Elizabeth Dole was appointed secretary of transportation by President Reagan in 1985, magazines covered the Dole marriage -- she as cabinet member, he as powerful senator. After a photo ran that showed them making up the bed in their apartment, a man wrote a complaining letter to Bob Dole, praising Elizabeth's skills but adding, "You've got to stop doing the work around the house. You're causing problems for men across the country." "You don't know the half of it," Dole wrote back. "The only reason she washelping was because they were taking pictures."
(ROBERT DOLE 2)
Dorothy Parker once collided with Clare Boothe Luce in a narrow doorway. "Age before beauty," said Mrs. Luce, stepping aside. "Pearls before swine," said Dorothy Parker, gliding through.
(DOROTHY PARKER 15)
A certain distinguished astronomer once declared at a scientific meeting: "To an astronomer, man is nothing more than an insignificant dot in an infinite universe."
"I have often felt that," said Einstein. "But then I realize that the insignificant dot who is man is also the astronomer."
(ALBERT EINSTEIN 14)
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A must have reference
-- A reviewer, September 12, 2000
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