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Description edit
Drawing from diverse personages -- Goethe to Churchill to Woody Allen -- Robert Byrne has mined a collection of wit and wisdom that deserves a special place on every humor lover's bookshelf. These unique, witty, and outrageous quotations, previously published in four separate volumes, are now... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
- - A crockpot of thoughtful, witty, and complex minds waiting to blow you away.
Characters/People edit
- Robert Byrne: Add a description of this character.
- Woody Allen
- Mark Twain
- H. L. Mencken
- Johnny Carson
- George Bernard Shaw
- Fred Allen
- Will Rogers
- George Burns
- Calvin Trillin
- Ambrose Bierce
- Fran Lebowitz
- Joan Rivers
- Ronald Reagan
- Lily Tomlin
- Gore Vidal
- Steven Wright
- Erma Bombeck
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Leo Tolstoy
- Richard Lewis
- Phyllis Diller
- Bertrand Russell
- Rodney Dangerfield
- Roseanne Barr
- James Thurber
- Roy Blount
- Will Durst
- Charles Schulz
- Henry James
- Jackie Mason
- Lewis Grizzard
- Samuel Johnson
- Lenny Bruce
- Dorothy Parker
- Elayne Boosler
- Russell Baker
- Bill Cosby
- Abigail Van Buren
- Brendan Behan
- Garry Shand
- Samuel Butler
- Gerald Nachman
- G. K. Chesterton
- Thomas Jefferson
- Ogden Nash
- Helen Rowland
- Garrison Keil
- Steve Martin
- Henry David Thoreau
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
Why don't you get a haircut?
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert Byrne (Compiler)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Fireside Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0743235797
Page Count: 672
Publisher: Fireside Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0743235797
Page Count: 672
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 082
Subjects edit
- Books › Reference › Encyclopedias › Humor
- Books › Entertainment › Humor › Jokes & Riddles
- Books › Reference › Quotations
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