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Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It

Author : James Geary
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039325495X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Wit's End: What Wit Is, How It Works, and Why We Need It written by James Geary and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A witty book about wit that steers an elegant path between waggishness and wisdom." —Stephen Fry Much more than a knack for snappy comebacks, wit is the quick, instinctive intelligence that allows us to think, say, or do the right thing at the right time in the right place. In this whimsical book, James Geary explores every facet of wittiness, from its role in innovation to why puns are the highest form of wit. Geary reasons that wit is both visual and verbal, physical and intellectual: there’s the serendipitous wit of scientists, the crafty wit of inventors, the optical wit of artists, and the metaphysical wit of philosophers. In Wit’s End, Geary embraces wit in every form by adopting a different style for each chapter; he writes the section on verbal repartee as a dramatic dialogue, the neuroscience of wit as a scientific paper, the spirituality of wit as a sermon, and other chapters in jive, rap, and the heroic couplets of Alexander Pope. Wit’s End agilely balances psychology, folktales, visual art, and literary history with lighthearted humor and acute insight, drawing upon traditions of wit from around the world. Entertaining, illuminating, and entirely unique, Wit’s End demonstrates that wit and wisdom are really the same thing.

Dear Fellow Shareholders...

Author : Martin J. Whitman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781539456926
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (569 download)

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Download or read book Dear Fellow Shareholders... written by Martin J. Whitman and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

Author : Dominique Enright
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1843175894
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill written by Dominique Enright and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2011-06-09 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This enchanting collection brings together hundreds of Churchill's wittiest remarks as a record of all that was best about this endearing, conceited, talented and wildly funny Englishman.

A Wit's World

Author : Stuart R. Schwartz
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 166571753X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book A Wit's World written by Stuart R. Schwartz and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven-year-old Maria considers herself an ordinary girl during a seemingly ordinary time in America when the milkman makes biweekly deliveries, Sunday drives are a regular occurrence, and vacations are spent at a family cabin. Thirty years later as Maria reflects on her childhood memories, she realizes that everything changed after her twelfth birthday when she met an elderly woman. In a collection of six novellas, Stuart Schwartz chronicles the lives of diverse characters as they navigate their way through life surrounded by drama, humor, intrigue, philosophical thoughts, and imaginary fun. Three years after Billy Buttons receives a stuffed lamb as a gift from his mother, he discovers the animal can talk. But the real fun begins when he lets Lambie out of his book bag. In Colonia, Illinois, the neighbors on Orchard Street mostly keep to themselves, except for two couples. Morton and Toni Williams and Ralph and Dawn Schultz are close friends. But when they attend a pyramid-scheme seminar, no one anticipates what comes next. A Wit’s World is a volume of six novellas that highlight the personal experiences and challenges facing a band of characters, each with their own ideas on how to triumph and persevere.

Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

Author : Andy Rooney
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 078674622X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit written by Andy Rooney and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andy Rooney is a classic chronicler of America and her foibles. Over more than six decades of intrepid reporting and elegant essays, Rooney has told it to us straight and without a hint of sugar coating, but with more than a grain of truth and humor. Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit brings together the best of more than a half-century of work (including long-out-of-print pieces from Rooney's early years) in an unforgettable celebration of one of America's funniest men. With selections from his beginnings as a correspondent for The Stars and Stripes during WWII to his arrival at CBS to his more than thirty-year stint on 60 Minutes, this book is a must-have for any Rooney fan.

Poor Charlie’s Almanack

Author : Charles T. Munger
Publisher : Stripe Press
ISBN 13 : 1953953247
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Poor Charlie’s Almanack written by Charles T. Munger and published by Stripe Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the legendary vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, lessons in investment strategy, philanthropy, and living a rational and ethical life. “Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up,” Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie’s Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of eleven talks delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman between 1986 and 2007 has become a touchstone for a generation of investors and entrepreneurs seeking to absorb the enduring wit and wisdom of one of the great minds of the 20th and 21st centuries. Edited by Peter D. Kaufman, chairman and CEO of Glenair and longtime friend of Charlie Munger—whom he calls “this generation’s answer to Benjamin Franklin”—this abridged Stripe Press edition of Poor Charlie’s Almanack features a brand-new foreword by Stripe cofounder John Collison. Poor Charlie’s Almanack draws on Munger’s encyclopedic knowledge of business, finance, history, philosophy, physics, and ethics—and more besides—to introduce the latticework of mental models that underpin his rational and rigorous approach to life, learning, and decision-making. Delivered with Munger’s characteristic sharp wit and rhetorical flair, it is an essential volume for any reader seeking to go to bed a little wiser than when they woke up.

Poems

Author : Abraham Cowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poems written by Abraham Cowley and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wit and Wisdom of Robert E. Lee

Author : Robert Edward Lee
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781565542754
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book The Wit and Wisdom of Robert E. Lee written by Robert Edward Lee and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers topics from women to war.

English Writings

Author : Abraham Cowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book English Writings written by Abraham Cowley and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Grin and Bear It: The Wit & Wisdom of Corduroy

Author : Don Freeman
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451479963
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Grin and Bear It: The Wit & Wisdom of Corduroy written by Don Freeman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventurous, imaginative, and always optimistic, Corduroy offers up wit and wisdom that will bring a little bit of sunshine to readers of all ages. Never forget who you are—and never forget who loves you. There's always a good reason to party! There’s no such thing as being too grown-up for a teddy bear. Since Corduroy’s first publication in 1968, this adventuresome stuffed animal has been delighting readers of all ages. Now America’s favorite teddy bear is here to share with you fifty years of his accumulated wit and wisdom, all in one adorable little book. Charming and inspirational, this is the perfect gift for graduation, or any other occasion when you might need a little confidence boost.

The Southeastern Reporter

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 956 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southeastern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 956 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wit

Author : Margaret Edson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466871830
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Wit written by Margaret Edson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Lucille Lortel Award, and the Oppenheimer Award. Adapted to an Emmy Award-winning television movie, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Emma Thompson. Margaret Edson's powerfully imagined Pulitzer Prize–winning play examines what makes life worth living through her exploration of one of existence's unifying experiences—mortality—while she also probes the vital importance of human relationships. What we as her audience take away from this remarkable drama is a keener sense that, while death is real and unavoidable, our lives are ours to cherish or throw away—a lesson that can be both uplifting and redemptive. As the playwright herself puts it, "The play is not about doctors or even about cancer. It's about kindness, but it shows arrogance. It's about compassion, but it shows insensitivity." In Wit, Edson delves into timeless questions with no final answers: How should we live our lives knowing that we will die? Is the way we live our lives and interact with others more important than what we achieve materially, professionally, or intellectually? How does language figure into our lives? Can science and art help us conquer death, or our fear of it? What will seem most important to each of us about life as that life comes to an end? The immediacy of the presentation, and the clarity and elegance of Edson's writing, make this sophisticated, multilayered play accessible to almost any interested reader. As the play begins, Vivian Bearing, a renowned professor of English who has spent years studying and teaching the intricate, difficult Holy Sonnets of the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, is diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer. Confident of her ability to stay in control of events, she brings to her illness the same intensely rational and painstakingly methodical approach that has guided her stellar academic career. But as her disease and its excruciatingly painful treatment inexorably progress, she begins to question the single-minded values and standards that have always directed her, finally coming to understand the aspects of life that make it truly worth living.

The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry

Author : Ainsworth Rand Spofford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry written by Ainsworth Rand Spofford and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson

Author : Harry Mount
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472976525
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson written by Harry Mount and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A return to the wit and wisdom of Boris Johnson – Brexiteer, Foreign Secretary, Prime Minister. New and updated edition. 2019 – the year that Boris took on the 'lingering gloomadon-poppers', pledged to steer the UK between the 'Scylla and Charybdis of Corbyn and Farage' and into the calmer waters of political freedom. Of course there was always bound to be 'a bit of plaster coming off the ceilings of Europe's Chanceries'. Harry Mount has updated his edited collection of the Prime Minister's wit and wisdom with three new chapters dealing with Boris's time as Brexiteer-in-chief; Foreign Secretary and 'On the Threshold of Downing Street'. He describes Boris's Brexit campaign, his leadership breakdown in 2016, his ups and downs as Foreign Secretary, his time outside the political establishment, his turbulent private life and how Boris felt it was his manifest destiny to become the Prime Minister. So buckle up for a riotous tour of the million-pound NHS funder, golden wonder, pro-having, pro-eating blond behemoth. This is the Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson.

The Spectator Book of Wit, Humour and Mischief

Author : Marcus Berkmann
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1408707446
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Spectator Book of Wit, Humour and Mischief written by Marcus Berkmann and published by Little, Brown Book Group. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching its 200th birthday in the rudest of health, the Spectator is known for the quality of its writing and the deep eccentricity of some of its writers. Given the freedom to say what they want, they take that freedom and more, and the result is original, provocative, often very funny, sometimes plain wrong. From Jeffrey Bernard's reports from the Soho frontline and Auberon Waugh fulminating about hamburger gases in the early 1990s, we encounter in turn the wild stream of consciousness of Deborah Ross's restaurant reviews, the pinpoint etiquette advice of Mary Killen, Rod Liddle's frothing but elegantly sculpted outrage and the magazine's secret weapon, low life adventurer Jeremy Clarke. This bumper selection, which also includes eminent diarists, mad letter-writers and Boris Johnson, amounts to a masterclass in comic writing, lovingly compiled and edited by Marcus Berkmann, who still can't believe he wrote a monthly pop column for the magazine for twenty-eight years without being fired.

Women's Wit and Wisdom: A Book Of Quotations

Author : Susan L. Rattiner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486111857
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book Women's Wit and Wisdom: A Book Of Quotations written by Susan L. Rattiner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 400 memorable quotes from the last 2,500 years by Sappho, Queen Elizabeth I, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, Erma Bombeck, Oprah Winfrey, and many others. A delight!

Wit and Wisdom of Anonymous Alcoholics

Author : Sharabi
Publisher : Alpine Lake Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780981605456
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Wit and Wisdom of Anonymous Alcoholics written by Sharabi and published by Alpine Lake Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychology and Spirituality come together in this scintillating collection of stories, insights and humorous quips from 25 years in Recovery. The addict or alcoholic committed to change has to deal with normal human challenges without reaching for the bottle or drug that had become habitual. Recovering alcoholics seek far and wide and incorporate many sources of wisdom into their search for living life with greater awareness, consciousness and self-understanding. And they know how to laugh.