The Best Advice Ever Given, New and Updated (English, Steven D. Price)

Product description Review Endorsement for 1001 Smartest Things Ever Said: "This is a book full of smart things that I'm sure I'll keep handy in the coming months and years."--Tavis Smiley, National Public Radio From the Back Cover In need of a bit of good advice? With so many decisions to make in the areas of love and relationships, education and professional endeavors, success and personal happiness, it's no wonder that most of us seek good advice from the fount of collective human wisdom at one time or another. Here in one helpful compendium is the best advice ever recorded: a collection of personal tips, traditional proverbs, and clever observations - some gently inspiring and some profoundly life-changing - from the sages of the literary, political, spiritual, and psychological realms, including: "Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."--Oprah Winfrey "Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a placed called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own." --Nelson Algren "Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth." -- Erma Bombeck "Always forgive your enemies: nothing annoys them so much." -- Oscar Wilde About the Author Steven D. Price is the author or editor of more than forty books, including the best-selling The Whole Horse Catalog. His compilations include The Smartest Things Ever Said and The Best Advice Ever Given. A graduate of the University of Rochester and Yale Law School, he is a resident of New York City and a keen observer of human achievement and folly. Read more