Selected quotation

"Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient."

~ Henry Louis Mencken, "A Book of Burlesques"



Various books with quotations, aphorisms and proverbs:

Chinese Proverbs

The Proverbs Driven Life: Timeless Wisdom for Your Words, Work, Wealth, and Relationships

Offerings: Buddhist Wisdom for Every Day (Offerings for Humanity)

Everyday Positive Thinking

The Yale Book of Quotations

America's Popular Sayings: Over 1600 Expressions on Topics from Beauty to Money and Everything In Between

The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

101 French Proverbs

Doonesbury.com's The War in Quotes

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (17th Edition)

8,789 Words of Wisdom

The Book of Positive Quotations, 2nd Edition