This reference should be useful to public speakers, writers, politicians, performers and salespeople. The book should also amuse anyone who enjoys humour or taking a look at sayings which go back thousands of years. Some of civilization's most influential and profound writers - including Aristotle, Erasmus, Thomas More, Shakespeare and Cicero - are among those quoted.

"Does feminist mean large unpleasant person who'll shout at you or someone who believes women are human beings? To me it's the latter, so I sign up." (Margaret Atwood)"Brevity is the soul of lingerie." (Dorothy Parker)With a fresh, fun and contemporary design, "Women Know Everything!" will become a perennial gift-book favourite. It features more than 3,000 quotes by women on virtually every subject imaginable: art, business, dating, family, sex, writing and more. Women like Oprah Winfrey, Zadie Smith, Ani DiFranco, Arundhati Roy, Madonna, Frida Kahlo, Angelina Jolie, Ursula LeGuin, Zora Neale Hurston, Sojourner Truth and Mother Teresa share inspiring, smart and funny truths.

Medically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations on Dentistry, Medicine, and Nursing contains over 1,500 quotes pertinent and especially illuminating to these disciplines. Here you will find quotations from the most famous to the unknown. Some are profound, some are witty, some are wise but none are frivolous. The extensive author and subject indexes

14,000 snappy sayings and clever remarks, guaranteed to add spice to any speech, writing or conversation. Over 550 subjects, alphabetically arranged. 592 pages.

This book brings together over 1,100 quotes pertinent and illuminating to engineering, technology and architecture. It includes extensive author and subject indexes for locating quotations. The book can be read for entertainment or used as a handy reference by students and professional engineers.

For the first time, a book has brought together in one easily accessible form the best expressed thoughts that are especially illuminating and pertinent to the discipline of mathematics. Mathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations provides profound, wise, and witty quotes from the most famous to the unknown. You may not find all the quoted "jewels" that exist, but you will definitely a great many of them here. The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the perfect tools for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure, and you will soon enjoy discovering what others have said on topics ranging from addition to zero. This book will be a handy reference for the mathematician or scientific reader and the wider public interested in who has said what on mathematics.