From A to Z: The Most Complete Encyclopedia of Aphorisms

The book is the most complete collection of aphorisms, thoughts and quotes learned from prose, poems, plays, journalists, interviews and record books of a well-known Russian writer, chief editor of the Literary newspaper Yury Polyakova.
"The skill of Polyakova-Aphorist is that through the prism of an immanently inherent irony he can consider almost all the basic concepts of ethnocultural consciousness. The semantic field of his aphorisms extends from the "eternal" issues of being to, at first glance, ordinary, momentary, landlord-domestic. But we will not forget that the aphoristic is a unique literary genre, which in the hands of the master is capable of any momentaryness and seeming insignificant to turn if not in axiom, then in the theorem, worthy of writing it with gold letters"