Geary's Guide

I'm not sure if I've commented in the past about James Geary's pair of books on aphorisms, but they are simply must reads. His first book, The World in a Phrase, is a brief history of the writing form and his next was an encyclopedia of them, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists. The guide talks more about the individuals who came up with such pithy phrases as:

"I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom" -- Anatole France

I regularly and unabashedly steal from Geary's Guide for many of my picked up #WordsOfTwisdom entries on my feed.

And that only 454 people, as of today, follow @JamesGeary is somehow criminal.