Instant Genius: Smart Mouths: The Best Quotations Ever Collected (Instant Genius (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

Uncle John's dedicated team of quotationeers have scoured the worlds of entertainment, history, literature, politics, sports, and more to bring you this unique collection of utterances that bear repeating. From silly to profound, from Aristotle to Mr. T, you'll discover insights on such topics as love, sex, conspiracies, boredom, cheese, juggling, and the true meaning of belly-button lint. Here are but a few of the thousands of morsels awaiting you: "Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even." --Horace "In America, sex is an obsession. In other parts of the world, it's a fact." --Marlene Dietrich "With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and sixty." --Jack Nicholson "It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'as pretty as an airport' appear." --Douglas Adams "I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it." --Clarence Darrow "If it's called USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday? Bam! Busted!" --Stephen Colbert "Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight." --Phyllis Diller

What's so great about great quotations? They're nuggets of gold, offering a glimpse into the human experience--and they do it with only a handful of words. With that in mind, the editors at Portable Press, publishers of the wildly popular Uncle John's Bathroom Reader series, did what they do best: They found the deepest, wisest, sharpest, funniest, and most furious thinkers and compiled their observations into tasty, digestible little bundles. Does every quote book have to be as weighty and ponderous as Bartlett's to be relevant? The answer is a resounding NO. On subjects as varied as history, love, sex, boredom, sports, cheese, smoking, politics, juggling, school, and the true meaning of bellybutton lint, Instant Genius: Smart Mouths will make your brain happy to be alive (and thankful that you taught it to read).