Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-228).
Formatted Contents Note:
1 Guessing Is More Fun Than Knowing: The Confessions of an Aphorism Addict 1 -- 2 We Are What We Think: Ancient Sages, Preachers, and Prophets 21 -- Lao-tzu 27 -- Buddha 31 -- Confucius 35 -- Jesus 38 -- Muhammad 42 -- Zen Masters 45 -- 3 A Man Is Wealthy in Proportion to the Things He Can Do Without: Greek and Roman Stoics 49 -- Diogenes 52 -- Epicurus 55 -- Seneca 58 -- Epictetus 62 -- Marcus Aurelius 65 -- 4 Upon the Highest Throne in the World, We Are Seated, Still, upon Our Arses: French and Spanish Moralists 67 -- Michel de MOntaigne 69 -- Baltasar Gracian 75 -- Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld 81 -- Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues 87 -- Sebastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort 92 -- Joseph Joubert 97 -- 5 Good and Evil Are the Prejudices of God: Heretics, Dissenters, and Skeptics 102 -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 106 -- Arthur Schopenhauer 109 -- Friedrich Nietzsche 114 -- Ludwig Wittgenstein 119 -- E. M. Cioran 123 -- 6 Lack of Money Is the Root of All Evil: The Rise of the American One-Liner 126 -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 130 -- Henry David Thoreau 133 -- Mark Twain 139 -- Ambrose Bierce 144 -- 7 Know Then Thyself, Presume Not God to Scan; The Proper Study of Mankind Is Man: In Praise of Light Verse 149 -- Alexander Pope 152 -- William Blake 157 -- Emily Dickinson 160 -- Samuel Hoffenstein 164 -- Dorothy Parker 166 -- Dr. Seuss 169 -- 8 In the Beginning Was the Word-At the End Just the Cliche: The Aphorism Today 174 -- Karl Kraus 176 -- Antonio Porchia 180 -- Malcolm de Chazal 183 -- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec 188 -- Barbara Kruger 191 -- Jenny Holzer 192.
