Part of the pleasure of this book is to reveal the provenance of the
well-worn quote (or misquote)--my cup runneth over, ay, there's the rub,
to err is human, the spice of life--but also to introduce some less
familiar ones. Most of the quotations included are from classic
sources--from the Bible, the works of Shakespeare, other poets,
classical authors, Dickens (God bless us everyone, waiting for something
to turn up, very humble), Charlotte Bronte (Reader, I married him) and
George Bernard Shaw (who didn't actually say Youth is wasted on the
young, but may have said something like it. Somewhere. No one seems to
know for sure). This entertaining and informed--but not too
serious--take on the wit and wisdom of the last 2000 years is ideal for
modern readers who like their knowledge in tweet-sized chunks.