With proverbs and precepts, saws, adages and axioms. Polished over years of use, here are thousands of sayings that are truer now than the day they were coined. All collected by Barbara Ann Kipfer, who has the sensibility of a poet, the outlook of a practical philosopher, the obsession of a list maker.
The Wish List is a quirky little gift book that sounds an irresistible call to get out there and start living. In the same chunky format as the authorfs bestselling 14,000 Things to Be Happy About, The Wish List presents a compulsively readable list of unexpected goals. There are wishes large—retrace Odysseus' route around the Mediterranean—and wishes small—find a genuine arrowhead. There…