Grothe, Mardy

Traces the history of figurative language, with more than two thousand analogies, metaphors, and similes from the English language, explaining the basis and meaning of each example.

A collection of some of history's most celebrated wisecracks and humorous remarks by such names as Mark Twain, Mae West, and Groucho Marx.

Contains a collection of 1,400 quotations that appear self-contradictory, but are often true at a deeper level, from people who include Aristotle, Shakespeare, and Woody Allen, on subjects such as sex, romance, politics, marriage, and more.