Bite-Size Twain: Wit and Wisdom from the Literary LegendMark Twain...On kindness: Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.On friends: Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.On growing old: Take any road you please...it curves always, which is a continual promise, whereas straight roads reveal everything at a glance and kill interest.On truth and lies: many when they come to die have spent a...

As a bestselling author and our nation's earliest spokesman, Benjamin Franklin brilliantly extolled virtues of temperance, industry, and self-reliance --character traits which throughout our history have been celebrated as both personally liberating and quintessentially American.In this next installment of the highly successful Bite-Size series, draws some practical wisdom, and more than a few laughs, from Franklin's intimate letters, scientific essays, newspaper articles, and revol...

Jane Austen's novels are filled with wide-ranging commentary from all parts of life. Her sharp-witted and intelligent characters have provided us with memorable quotes time and time again.Finally Austen's sense and sensibility has been compiled in one compact book. In Bite-Size Jane Austen we get her thoughts and words on society, men and women, the arts and writing, business and politics, England, family matters and on the human condition.Bite-Size Jane Austen

President Lincoln's thoughts on an astounding range of subjects have not only become classic observations about the human condition in turn-of-the-century America, but also continue to amuse, teach, and inspire us today.Like the highly successful Bite-Size Einstein and Bite-Size Twain, Bite-Size Lincoln is a compilation of this historic American's famous and eloquent words. A hard life on the American frontier taught Lincoln common sense and a healthy respect for honesty and plain d...

Ram Dass has always been a master of the one-liner. Here is the nitty-gritty by the author of Be Here Now—more than 200 penetrating observations and pithy spiritual instructions on such topics as How It All Is, Love and Devotion, Suffering, Aging, Planes of Consciousness, Death and Dying, Service and Compassion, Psychedelics, Social Awareness, and Liberation.“This book is a kind of spiritual brandy, a distillation of the lectures I’ve given over the course of the p...

Do you know that know that scientists claim that we only use 10% or less of our brain at any given time? Imagine if we were able to use the whole 100%... Unfortunately, I don't know the secret to unlocking the 90% or so of your brain. However, I do know the secret to changing your life. And that secret is outlined throughout these 1817 quotes. These quotes, arranged in 21 different categories, cover a wide range of topics, from motivation to suc...

William Jennings Bryan (March 19, 1860 July 26, 1925) was a tour de force in American politics around the end of the 19th century. Bryan had a long, distinguished career in politics as a liberal in the Democratic Party, including serving as Secretary of State and presidential candidate. He advocated for democracy, sought peace, and embraced evolution even while opposing the idea of Social Darwinism. Bryan came to be known as "The Great Commoner." Bryan gave 500 speeches in his life and all b...

'Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't'Margaret Thatcher, UK prime minister 1979-1990 and leader of the Conservative Party 1975-1990, was the only women to hold either post, and was re-elected for an unprecedented third term, earning her a place in British history as one of the most extraordinary figures of the late twentieth century.This collection gathers together pithy and often witty quotations by the outspoken Iron Lady and...

Make history fun even with all the dates and information in tact with the use of this accurately summarized history book. The use of pictures and select texts attract the attention and make the lesson much more memorable. Since the presentation is effective and simple, learning becomes self-paced and much more personalized. Order a copy today!

The creme de la crud of screen history"War! War! That's all you think of, Dick Plantagenet! You burner! You pillager!"--Virginia Mayo as Lady Edith to George Sanders in King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)"Visits? That would indicate visitors."--Army captain learning of alien visits in Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)"When I'm sitting here with you, I don't even think about the slime people."--Hero to heroine in The Slime People (1962)"Su...

A treasure-trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from beloved physicist Richard P. Feynman"Some people say, ‘How can you live without knowing?' I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know."—Richard P. FeynmanNobel Prize–winning physicist Richard P. Feynman (1918–88) was that rarest of creatures—a towering scientific genius who could make himself understood by anyone and wh...

Sometimes it seems like all of humanity is saying no. No, we don't want you for this job. No, you're not good enough to get into our school. No, we don't like your presentation. No, we won't fund your idea. No, we don't think you have the ability to play on our team. No, we don't think you're pretty enough, thin enough, tall enough, fast enough, have the right stuff for our needs.What's really bad… sometimes we believe them.Pumped is for those days when you're overwhelmed w...