Potent Quotables (updated periodically)

  • "If you like sausages and laws, you should never watch either one of them being made." -- Otto von Bismarck
  • "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson
  • "The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" -- FW Boreham
  • "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'" -- Abigail Van Buren
  • "It was not political rhetoric, mass rallies or poses of moral indignation that gave the people a better life. It was capitalism." -- Thomas Sowell

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

The best-selling book of all time

I found this interesting.  The best selling non-religious/non-political single-volume book of all time is the Chinese dictionary.  After that....

A Tale of Two Cities.  200,000,000 copies sold since first published in 1859.  Wow.

Following that, the Scouting Handbook, Lord of the Rings, And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie mystery), The Hobbit, and Dream of the Red Chamber (an 18th century Chinese novel).

The best selling multi-volume series of all time will surprise none of you:  Harry Potter, with over 400,000,000 served.

(h/t Marginal Revolution)
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