Quotations Books

This book is really helpful, and I highly recomend it. It covers everything from being worried to prayer to salvation. It has three or more scriptures (example: for fear, these are the scriptures: Psalm 23:4, 1 John 4:18, Psalm 19:11, Hebrews 13:6, and 2 Timothy 1:7) for each subject (over 70 subjects) and a page about it, followed by a prayer. And hey, even the cover looks cool =D

This book is a really good way to help deal with problems in your everyday life. It has a multitude of feelings and helpful advice that tie into scripture. My cousin let me borrow hers and it has helped me so much to grow in faith.

This book is a great give for anyone who loves words and the history of the English language. I bought this book on a lark, but now I can hardly put it down. I have always loved words and how they are put together to make sayings and phrases and this book give a brief history of some time old cliches.

This is another fine reference from the Facts on File Writer's Library, and is a terrific resource for writers, readers, students and teachers.
Phrases are listed alphabetically, though alphabetizing phrases can be tricky, and if you can't find a phrase, check out the index at the back of the book. Each entry includes an explanation of its meaning, and most discuss the phrase's origin.

The print is clean and I was able to find most of the phrases in which I was interested. Very nice reference.

A proverb is a short saying used to illustrate a general truth, and this handy guide is quite useful and very entertaining. Proverbs are listed alphabetically, and each entry includes an explanation, an example from literature, origin, variants, cross references when appropriate, and a list of sayings with similar or opposite meanings.

For example, the entry "neither a borrower nor a lender be" reads:
It is advisable never to borrow or lend anything, specifically money: " 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be' is a lesson I learned too late, after losing $200 and the friend who borrowed it." The proverb comes from Shakespeare's play Hamlet (1:3; 1600-01) and is part of Polonius's advice to his son Laertes.

The book concludes with indexes by keyword and by theme as well as a bibliography. The print is clean and I was able to find all of the proverbs in which I was interested. My only complaint is that the year of origin is given, but not the source.

This is one of those books that I don't refer to too often, but when I do, it is an invaluable resource.

Great for freeing up writer's block...great for attributing those proverbs that you hear often. Just one of those books that I love having at my fingertips!!

I gave this book to my daughter for her bridal shower and it brought tears to her eyes, though it may have been due to the comments I wrote inside the cover.

Statements like 'Behold the tortoise, he only makes progress when he sticks his neck out!' and more give the reader food for thought with a little humour in a world where everything is safe and how it should be. Read this, and maybe you will gain the inspiration to try something different, something outrageous, something courageous.

FAUX PAS? A NO-NONSENSE GUIDE TO WORDS AND PHRASES FROM OTHER LANGUAGES will reach many casual readers as well as English language library holdings, offering an approachable and even fun set of insights into hundreds of phrases readers may want to use in their writings. An A-Z listing of such words and phrases offers definitions, examples, and comments on expressions and relationships between words.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

Great book, and an important one in this global village we now live in. One quibble from the American side of the Pond. Most of the context statements are from British papers, and some of the references are hard to understand for us Yankees. Case in point: Gooden cites a piece from the Guardian newspaper in the UK for the Japanese term "hara kiri" (Japanese ritual suicide), and the sentence from the UK paper goes: "Politically, any school remaining bog standard nowawdays in committing hara-kiri." So what does bog standard mean? We need another book guide to Britishisms! In the meantime, this book is no faux pas at all, but a darn good one.

This is a strange and wonderful book. It is perfectly titled: it is a reproduction of a file of correspondence and other documents which document the efforts of one unusually persistent man to get members of the academic and journalistic establishment to live up to their professed ideals of Truth. When the price of this is to admit error, or even give equal time for an irreverent, impolitic, iconoclastic, interloper armed with facts and questions, they often prove unequal to the challenge.

Is it sociology, or is it the exciting tale of an intellectual knight errant tilting at sacred cows and windmills? Both, and more.

This book will not appeal to people who think we live in the best of all possible worlds. It will appeal to those who think that individual effort to fight for accuracy and to expose intellectual corner-cutting in the service of received wisdom might actually be worth the trouble. It's a pity it's so expensive; it's a wonder it was published at all.

Serge Lang's "file" covering the Ladd-Lipsett 1977 "Survey of the American Professorate" is an insider's look into the politics of poor science. Lang, as usual, exposes the inaccuracies, misstatements and hypocrisy of our nation's leading "intellectuals" by reproducing their very own words. He has actual correspondence from the major characters involved and simply puts them on display for you to draw your own conclusions. It's almost impossible not to see how some people try to pass off political opinions as "science".

If you are looking for an eloquent book-style narrative, this is not really the book for you. The book is mostly reproductions of letters and newspaper columns placed in chronological order, with little comment from Lang. However, if you enjoy reading actual dialogue and want to avoid reading someone else's rehashing of the events, then this book is the only source.

This tiny "pop-up" book details what different flowers mean when given & is full of sweet poems regarding flowers. It is an absolute treasure!

"Earth laughs in flowers." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is a cut out in the cover so you can see the first page. When you open this book, there is a tiny envelope glued to the page. In the envelope you will find a cute to/from card you can fill out for your friends.

Each page has a pop-up picture that is completely cute!

The flowers that are featured:

Purple Lilac for the first emotions of love
Forget-Me-Not for True Love
Yellow Tulip for Hopelessly in love
Lily of the Valley for the Return of Happiness
Geranium for Gentility
White Camellia for Unabashed excellence

Each flower has a meaning and is sometimes in a drawing. Yellow Jasmine, Hibiscus, Rose White Chrysanthemum, Iris, Magnolia, Lily, Red Rose, Blue Violet, Honeysuckle, Red Tulip, Daisy, Sweet Pea, White Rosebud, Petunia, Sweet Violet, Azalea, Orchid and Red Carnation are also featured.

A garden of verse, quotes and pictures...

~The Rebecca Review

Never, before this book, had I had a journal to write some of my personal feelings in. But, as a gift from a friend, I recieved this diary and have written in it as much as I can. The person who gave it to me stated: "Journals are the only things that keep you sane." So, becuase of this statement, I used it (and still use it). And I guess it really does help to have thise little book with me, even if sometimes it's hard to get time to write in it. Though I have had no past journals, I believe this one must be pretty good. It has quotes about dreams all over it and has vibrant, colorful pages that are not clogged up by distracting illustrations or anything that does not come in a subtle manner. At the beginning of the journal is a little inspirational poem. It's not long, or incredibly eloquent, but I read it every time I write in the book. I think this would be a good gift for ANYONE, no matter who it is. It can be a small little thing like this that can really show someone you care. I still believe that it made a differnce in my life. Also, journals can be fun and emotionally reflective. They're wonderful to read months later. It's a gift that shows someone you care about their darkest secrets. It's also fun to treat yourself to something like this. In the back there are pockets to put sincere, sentimental writings such as poems or quotes of your own. Best of all, it is small and easily travels with you wherever you go. A great purchase. Inspiring. Suggested for those of us who are more creative than others, you can write deep things that other people may not understand, making privacy ideal. I hold it in the highest esteem over many other things that I own.

This is a wonderful book to give to anyone who has achieved or is determined to achieve their goals. Great way to inexpensively promote your downline members' efforts!

I'm so glad I found this wonderful little book! It has turned out the be the perfect gift for my hard to buy for co-workers and the teachers of my young children. I tucked a Starbucks gift card inside the book cover so, long after the Lattes have been sipped away the book can be savored for years to come. I've received great reviews on this gift giving idea.

Great little hardback book with very clever illustrations and sayings that even I, a non-coffee drinker, could appreciate! I bought several copies and have given them to friends and co-workers, along with a coffee store gift certificate, as birthday gifts.

I loved this book! I could tell by the cover picture I would enjoy it. I'm a fiesty female who believes all women are beautiful and powerful, and that it's time we stop letting men tell us different. This book makes you appreciate yourself and reminds you to surround yourself with others that do to, male or female. One of my favorite quotes went something like "nobody can make you feel insecure without your permission!" How true, don't give someone, anyone the power to make you feel less than you are! Just a joy to read and the animal pictures are beautiful and sweet. This book is great for inspiring confidence in any woman, and maybe even for our men to read to remind them how lucky they are to have us! *smile*

Willow Creek Press' little inspirational book is for the independent modern woman who needs some fun words of empowerment paired with fun animal photos. Free, Fearless Female isn't just another tired book of inspirational sayings: the comedy pairing of funny animal photos and quotes from notable women gives it a fun flavor missing from competitiors.