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Should You Judge This Book By Its Cover?
Julian Baggini
- 252 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Should You Judge This Book By Its Cover?
Julian Baggini
About This Book
A philosopher takes a second look at sayings, proverbs, and bits of homespun wisdom: "Every society needs its guardian of good sense: Baggini is ours." â The Financial Times These short, stimulating, and entertaining capsules of philosophy delve into the familiar words that live in our consciousness yet are rarely examined. Should you really do as the Romans do when in Rome and practice what you preach? Is the grass always in fact greener on the other side of the fence, and is there ever smoke without fire? Is beauty always in the eye of the beholder and is it actually better to be safe than sorry? From the popular author of The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten, cofounder of The Philosophers' Magazine, and academic director of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, this is a witty, deeply thought-provoking reminder that we should never stop asking questions.
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A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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Manners maketh man
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âTis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all
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No smoke without fire
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Nothing in excess
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
- 2. Manners maketh man
- 3. âTis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all
- 4. No smoke without fire
- 5. Nothing in excess
- 6. Jack of all trades and master of none
- 7. No man is an island, entire of itself
- 8. Forget and forgive
- 9. Practice makes perfect
- 10. Love never fails
- 11. Actions speak louder than words
- 12. That which does not kill me makes me stronger
- 13. The exception proves the rule
- 14. All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way
- 15. No pain, no gain
- 16. If you canât stand the heat, get out of the kitchen
- 17. Night brings counsel
- 18. I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it
- 19. Penny wise and pound foolish
- 20. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
- 21. Make hay while the sun shines
- 22. First do no harm
- 23. Speech is silver, but silence is golden
- 24. Reading is to the mind as exercise is to the body
- 25. Practise what you preach
- 26. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends
- 27. Que serĂĄ, serĂĄ
- 28. Plus ça change, plus câest la mĂȘme chose
- 29. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics
- 30. Time will tell
- 31. All the worldâs a stage
- 32. Great oaks from little acorns grow
- 33. The only certainty is that nothing is certain
- 34. Familiarity breeds contempt
- 35. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds
- 36. Life is not a dress rehearsal
- 37. Pride comes before a fall
- 38. The man who gives little with a smile gives more than the man who gives much with a frown
- 39. Itâs no use crying over spilt milk
- 40. The unexamined life is not worth living
- 41. Diligence is the mother of good luck
- 42. A little learning is a dangerous thing
- 43. Ask not what your country can do for you â ask what you can do for your country
- 44. Love is blind
- 45. Neither a borrower nor a lender be
- 46. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- 47. Happiness depends upon ourselves
- 48. If it ainât broke, donât fix it
- 49. Youth is wasted on the young
- 50. You canât judge a book by its cover
- 51. All men are rapists
- 52. Lightning never strikes the same place twice
- 53. He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone
- 54. What the eye doesnât see, the heart doesnât grieve over
- 55. Itâs better to burn out than fade away
- 56. Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due
- 57. If God does not exist, everything is permitted
- 58. Better the devil you know than the devil you donât know
- 59. I think, therefore I am
- 60. Follow your heart
- 61. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, who is poor
- 62. Charity begins at home
- 63. Hell is paved with good intentions
- 64. To every thing there is a season
- 65. Canât buy me loveâ
- 66. Virtue is its own reward
- 67. Conscience does make cowards of us all
- 68. Revenge is a dish that can be eaten cold
- 69. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing
- 70. Man is the measure of all things
- 71. You can lead a horse to water, but you canât make him drink
- 72. Nor is the peopleâs judgement always true / The most may err as grossly as the few
- 73. Still waters run deep
- 74. A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it
- 75. A man is known by the company he keeps
- 76. Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable
- 77. When one door shuts, another opens
- 78. A prophet has no honour in his own country
- 79. A trouble shared is a trouble halved
- 80. Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not
- 81. To the pessimist, the glass is half-empty. To the optimist, it is half-full
- 82. Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful
- 83. Better safe than sorry
- 84. The best lack all convictions, while the worst are full of passionate intensity
- 85. Let sleeping dogs lie
- 86. The course of true love never did run smooth
- 87. In vino veritas
- 88. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself
- 89. Do to others what you would have them do to you
- 90. When in Rome, do as the Romans do
- 91. Boys will be boys
- 92. Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration
- 93. More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones
- 94. To know all is to forgive all
- 95. A man reaps what he sows
- 96. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
- 97. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet
- 98. We cannot command nature except by obeying her
- 99. Where thereâs life, thereâs hope
- 100. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- A, B, C
- D, E, F
- G, H, I
- J, K, L
- M, N, O
- P, Q, R
- S, T, U
- V, W, X
- Y, Z
- Copyright