In this clever compendium, hundreds of notables share their wise and witty admonitions on everything from dating to dentists, poker to punctuality, tipping to temptation.

A selection of women's humor including quotations by Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bowen, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Fran Lebowitz, Molly Ivens, and Whoopi Goldberg.

A humorous compilation of personal anecdotes, recipes, and advice from the Sweet Potato Queens explains how to plan for an extraordinary wedding, as well as how to survive the nastiest divorce.

Modine Gunch is Everywoman who thanks God for indoor plumbing because the bathroom is the only place to get away from the kids and who is tempted to clean the kitchen floor with a garden hose. The "Modine Gunch" column appears monthly in New Orleans Magazine. Over 30 illustrations.

The figure of the newspaper columnist, which emerged in America in the mid-nineteenth century, plays a key role in modern newspapers. Columnists nowadays add a decidedly personal touch to the newspapers in which they appear—an important consideration in an increasingly impersonal, corporate, no-nonsense medium. This volume provides the most complete look available at the emergence of the columnist and at who the leading columnists have been from the Civil War era to the present. In total, 780 columnists and their work are examined chronologically—according to when their columns first appeared—within several categories: early (1800s), humor, column poets, syndicated political, other syndicated, local, and minority.