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Quotable Quotes: Wit and Wisdom from the Greatest Minds of Our Time

A thorough revision and update of the best-selling Reader’s Digest original Quotable Quotes will bring this timeless classic into the 21st century. The new collection will feature words of wisdom, wry witticisms, provocative opinions, and inspiring reflections from history’s greatest figures, such as Benjamin Franklin, William Shakespeare, Socrates, Abraham Lincoln and scores more. It will also contain the best quips and quotes from modern celebrities like Colin Powell, Garrison Keillor, John Stewart, Steve Jobs, J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, Conan O’Brien, Jerry Seinfeld, Barack and Michele Obama, Lady Gaga, and well beyond.

Sometimes all it takes is a poignant observation to turn our entire outlook on a topic, or even life itself, upside down. Whether readers are looking to polish a speech, get a quick laugh, or be inspired by the wisdom of the world’s greatest minds, Quotable Quotes will provide them with unique insights and revelatory perceptions. With this up-to-date yet timeless edition, this book will have relevance for all readers, old and young, on subjects that range from life to the universe and everything in between: family, friends, work, death, taxes, religion, the modern world, literature, pop culture, and more.

“Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets” –Steve Jobs

“The world is more malleable than you think, and it’s waiting for you to hammer it into shape.” –Bono

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Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age (Dodo Press)

Dr. Louis Klopsch (1852-1910) was an enterprising immigrant journalist. He was born in Germany and then settled down with his family in New York at age two. At the age of twenty he edited a merchants’ trade newspaper. He also pioneered American overseas charities in a massive fashion, raising more than three million dollars through his newspaper. He aided famine victims in many places such as Sweden and Japan. By 1890 he was American editor of the British weekly, The Christian Herald. He later bought it out. He edited Many Thoughts of Many Minds: A Treasury of Quotations From the Literature of Every Land and Every Age in 1896.