Choosing quotations in much the same way as she chose words for 500 Words You Should Know ("Ooh, that's a nice word"), Caroline Taggart here collects pithy phrases, witticisms, and other quotes from sources classical, popular, and obscure that she thinks you should know. You'll find words from the Bible and Shakespeare, of course; pronouncements by Winston Churchill and Abraham Lincoln; inspiration from Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison; and smart remarks by Oscar Wilde, Dorothy Parker, 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).