Words of Wisdom

by William Safire

Overview

From Simon & Schuster, Words of Wisdom, compiled and edited by William Safire and Leonard Safir, is a collection of good advice.

A follow-up to the highly successful Good Advice, here are more witty, insightful words of advice on every subject under the sun—from sources as diverse as Hippocrates and Babe Ruth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780671695873
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	04/15/1990
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 10.60(h) x 1.09(d)

About the Author

As the word maven in the Sunday New York Times Magazine, William Safire is the most widely read writer on the subject of the English language. In addition, he has for the past quarter century written a twice-weekly political column for The New York Times, for which he was awarded a Pulitzer Prize. A former speechwriter in the Nixon White House, he is the author of twenty-six books, including his most recent book on language, No Uncertain Terms; Safire's New Political Dictionary; the speech anthology Lend Me Your Ears; and four novels, two of them historical: Scandalmonger, about early nineteenth-century journalist Thomson Callender, and Freedom, a bestseller about Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation.

Editorial Reviews

Compiled and edited by the brothers Safir(e), this sequel to their Good Advice ( LJ 6/1/82) is not merely a collection of quotations; as the preface notes, ``. . . we specialize in the imperative mood, with direction explicit.'' The work is arranged alphabetically by topic, with references to related headings; sources range from the Talmud through Shakespeare, Thoreau, and Colette to Business Week and Grace Slick. The selection of both topics and individual quotations is the key to the book's quality: Estee Lauder and Marlene Dietrich comment on allure, Cicero and George Burns advise the elderly, and Winston Churchill and Napoleon appear under the heading peace. This easy-to-use collection should have wide appeal to everyone from browsers to writers looking for mots justes .-- Stephen H. Cape, Indiana Univ. Lib., Bloomington

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