The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and WhenSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 1. apr 2007 - 416 pages Our language is full of hundreds of quotations that are often cited but seldom confirmed. Ralph Keyes's The Quote Verifier considers not only classic misquotes such as "Nice guys finish last," and "Play it again, Sam," but more surprising ones such as "Ain't I a woman?" and "Golf is a good walk spoiled," as well as the origins of popular sayings such as "The opera ain't over till the fat lady sings," "No one washes a rented car," and "Make my day." |
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... house divided against itself cannot stand.”). Quotations that receive substantial consideration within the sidebar but that do not appear in the text are only boldfaced. Their contents are indexed. Quotations that are merely discussed ...
... House Speaker Thomas Reed. Spinal similes were quite popular after the Civil War. TR was especially fond of this genre of invective, saying about Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., “I could carve out of a banana a justice ...
... house, of his chamber; for nothing on earth is solitary but every thing hath affinities infinite.” This has been long known. Digging deeper, however, a librarian discovered that an updated version of William Law's Christian Perfection ...
... House of Commons, which had been destroyed by German bombs two years earlier. Some wanted to replace it with a roomier building that had enough seats for every member. Others, including Prime Minister Winston Churchill, wanted to re ...
... House of Commons was rebuilt in its traditional form. Churchill's famous words are sometimes misquoted as “We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.” Verdict: Credit Churchill, for buildings. “The BUSINESS of America ...
Contents
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BIBLIOGRAPHY | 259 |
SOURCE NOTES | 267 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 345 |
KEY WORD INDEX | 347 |
NAME INDEX | 375 |
SIDEBAR INDEX | 389 |