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Dedication:

Thank you...you know who you are. Anonymous

Acknowledgments

for which I pay em a thousand thanks

William Shakespeare

Our thanks to Will Marston and Susan Huish, for suggesting some great DumbDumberDumbest lines; to Andrea Mullarky and Carole Leita for offering some Words to Live By; to Ethel Manheimer and Sunny Adler for providing several of their (and our) favorite quotes; to Wendie Vermillion for a quote that kept us going; to Cathy McAuliffe and Anita Schriver, for support and encouragementand some great meals together. The Ulysses folks were and are wonderful to work withespecially Kelly Reed (who got us into this), Lauren Harrison (who kept us from embarrassing ourselves), Judith Metzener (who made it all read well), and Claire Chun (who, as usual, held everything together).

And as always, our grateful thanks to Diane Davenport. Words fail us.

Introduction

A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested.

Terri Guillemets

First, some caveats. Like whats with this greatest business? Well, we wanted to call this book Some Quotes That Made Us Smile or Think, That Perfectly Summed Up Something We Felt, Are 140 Characters or Less, and That You Might Like Too. But our publisher nixed that idea (even thought it was exactly 140 characters long).

We figured a greatest quote is something like Fourscore and seven years ago. But it turns out that a lot of great quotes just arent very tweetable. Either theyre too long-windedly noble (We hold these truths to be self-evident) or they lose their nobility by shortening (2 B or not 2 B). So we broadened our definition.

We thought of those moments when the perfect quote would come in handy, something to describe what were thinking, wishing, needing, avoiding, forgetting, or seeing. And then we went out and collected the pithy wisdom of everyone from Plato to Monty Python.

In these pages, youll find plenty of grand tweetable topics like Art, Consistency, Loneliness, Marriage, and Simplicity. But youll also find comments about daily life: bitching and moaning, cell phones, clutter, dieting, naps, traffic, finding a bathroomand dozens of other subjects.

As to the arrangement of all these wise nuggetsreally, where would you put a quote like After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breathe and reboot. Technology? Death? Relationships? Persistence? We used our best judgment and counted on your willingness to wander.

Incidentally, there are a bazillion quote books out there. The print ones we depended on are in the Bibliography (as are some great websites). And if 1,400 quotes arent enough and you head to the books, be forewarned: Theyre arranged by exciting topics like Agriculture or Founding Fathers or Urban Affairs, which are great for term papers, but not so great for lifeor Twitter.

Every quote here fits Twitters 140-character limit, including attributionthough we relied on ampersands to make a few lengthy ones fit. Information in brackets isnt counted; its just to give you a little more background. And do you really need to know that Goethes full name is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? We thought not.

Speaking of giving creditmany people have said many of the same great things, sometimes so many that the only possible way to credit the quote is Anonymous. For movies and TV shows, weve credited the speaker, not the screenwriter; for plays and books, weve credited the author.

Now weve come to the end of our lengthy ramble. Dont worry, the information in the rest of the book is much more concise. And while these greatest quotes may not all be studied in school or spouted in speeches, we hope youll find some that perfectly express your feelings. After all, when that happens, isnt it the greatest?

Sayre Van Young and Marin Van Young

How amazing it would be if somehow Oscar
Wilde and Mae West could Twitter from the
grave....

Dita Von Teese

Acceptance

The concept of acceptance is closely related to saying Whatever, but some of these quotes will bring a little more panache to your tweets.

It is what it is.

Anonymous

Itll be what itll be.

Anonymous

Everyone must row with the oars he has.

English proverb

The sun will set without your help.

Anonymous

To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.

Bible [modified a bit by Pete Seeger]

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Everyone is in the best seat.

John Cage

Youre going to have more rejection than acceptance.

Barry Mann

Ya gotta do what ya gotta do.

Sylvester Stallone [in the movieRocky]

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Sigmund Freud

Everybody is all right, really.

Winnie the Pooh [A. A. Milne]

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell

Sometimes you just gotta say what the fuck.

Tom Cruise [in the movieRisky Business]

And thats the way it is.

Walter Cronkite

AdventureSeeTravel & Adventure

Advice

Advice in General

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didnt.

Erica Jong

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want, and then advise them to do it.

Harry S Truman

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.

Spanish proverb

Accept good advice gracefullyas long as it doesnt interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

Gene Brown

Good advice is often annoying. Bad advice never is.

French proverb

Bad Advice

Do as we say and not as we do.

Giovanni Boccaccio [Use the original Italian for that special touch:Fate quello che noi diciamo e non quello che noi facciamo.]

Damned Good Advice See alsoWords to Live By

Keep breathing.

Sophie Tucker

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

Henry Ford

Say little and do much.

Talmud

Dont compromise yourself. You are all youve got.

Janis Joplin

Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.

Arabian proverb

Love your neighbor, but dont pull down the fence.

Swiss/German proverb

Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.

Dave Berry

Remember that a kick in the ass is a step forward.

Anonymous

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