What sets wise words apart from the cliches and soundbites we encounter every day? When a saying has the power to reach out and change your life, it is no longer a platitude or a proverb but an aphorism. Self-confessed aphorism addict James Geary takes a whimsical, humorous tour through the history of this remarkable subject and its extraordinary practitioners. With a scope that reaches from the ancient Eastern prophets to American one-liners, from the Greek and Roman Stoics to the great German philosophers, the book's focus is life, the universe and everything.
- ISBN10 0719561353
- ISBN13 9780719561351
- Publish Date 29 June 2006 (first published 7 November 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 October 2008
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Imprint John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English