The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)

The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)

The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)
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Editor: John M. Shanahan
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-05-11
ISBN: 0060194111
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Harper

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me and Robert had been to my uncles house where we had been playing music Robert was a guitar playermt uncal lemuel played and was a good singer i did not play.but i could sang a little we stoped about 8oclok it was dark and lemuel was drinking so we decided to go home lemuel didnt want us to go but we did he lived about a mile from town we headed home in town we were going down main st in the heart of town there was one main st and route70was the heart of town on one corner was a post office on the other side was a dry good store on the other corner was a hardware store going north on main past the drygood store two buildings from corner was the bank it was about 9oclok there were no body to be seen at that time they went to bed earley most houses did not have electric lights but all the stoors had electric lights as we walked on up main st i noticed a light in the bank it had a large windo in front the shade was down but you could see light around the edges we were at edge of the window when i could see light flashing and sparks flying and a noizethat i had heard before i had heard the sound before in a garage two buildings up the street when they would be cutting steel with a cutting torch or welding i mitend to robert to come on we went to the corner i turned right robert wanted to know where i was going i told him behind the bank to get a piece of ice.there was a place in back of bank that had a shed it had three sides and part of a roof it was full of saudust they keep ice under the sadust to deliver to the restaurants and houses yhat had ice boxes i took my stick it had a nail in the end of it and chiped us a piece of ice robert didn't want any he said i got to go home i told him to be quit my mind was going 90 miles a hour trying to figure out what they were doingin there robert said lets go i no iam going to find out what they are doing he said they are working in there i am going home i explained to him what i thought was going on he said they aint nobody that brave to try and rob the bank but he took notice when i said lets pick out a place to hide if they come out a alley ran in back of the bank across the alley was a big brick house it belonged to the man that owned the bank it was the biggest house in town that is where my mother works as a made they also owned the house we lived in my mother said thet were good to her miss sally maude was my 5 grade teacher she liked me had told me i was good at math she would bring me something to eat hide it in clok roome with a pint of milk she would find a way to tell me before lunch would let out.and miss crane another teacher would do the same thing when i was in her class they were good people and i thank them to this day there were a lot of days that is alli would get to eat that day. we had been sitting there for about 2 hours when robert nudged me there was a nois comming from the bank we ducked down the door opened the light was out 2 men came out they both were carying something you coulnt tell what .they walked wright past us we seen ho it was but they didnt see us iwas scared we kept listen for them they kept going down alleyi listened for acar to start but never did hear one.i am writing my life history i am 76years old the time all this started it was 1937 when this part happened this book will be through the thirties till i got out of navy in 1943 dewey laycox thank you

Summary of The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time (In Two Lines or Less)

"Talkers are no good doers."-- William Shakespeare

"The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it."-- FranÇois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

"It is hard to believe a man is telling you the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place."-- H. L. Mencken

"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.-- Gore Vidal

"Women keep a special corner of their hearts for sins theyhave never committed."-- Cornelia Otis Skinner

"You lose it if you talk about it.-- Ernest Hemingway

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."-- William Butler Yeats

"Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five."-- William Somerset Maugham

You don't have to be a genius to sound like one. Here's a collection of the most profound and provocative wit and wisdom in the English language in two lines or less. Edited by entrepreneur John M. Shanahan, who created the wildly successful Hooked on Phonics program, this wonderful book presents the best that has been thought and said on every imaginable topic.

Classified by such themes as "Truth, Lies, and Deception," "Men, Women, and Relationships," and "Passions, Virtues, and Vices," these quotes contain timeless messages for all humankind. Oscar Wilde: "A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position." Charles de Gaulle: "The cemetery is filled with indispensable men." Abraham Lincoln: "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." Sophocles: "Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it."

Perfect for anyone who has ever been left speechless, this book will make you as glib as Oscar Wilde, as profound as Winston Churchill, and as wise as Aesop. Inspirational, entertaining, and thought-provoking, this is one collection that no library or bookshelf should be without.

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