The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said » (Reprint)

Robert Byrne is the author of twenty-one books, including four The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said collections; six on billiards; and seven novels, one of which, Thrill, was made into an NBC-TV Monday Night Movie in 1996. Byrne's Standard Book of Pool and Billiards has sold more than 350,000 copies.

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 gathered together in a seemingly limitless trove of pithy and often irreverent one-liners, retorts, put-downs, jokes, and last words that cover every conceivable subject and will appeal to every taste. Highlights include:

"Start every day with a smile and get it over with." — W. C. Fields

"Men read maps better than women because only men understand that an inch canequal a hundred miles." — Roseanne Barr

"Happiness is having a large loving family in another city." — George Burns