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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... Robert Merton devoted an entire book to exploring the origins of the saying routinely attributed to Isaac Newton about being able to see farther because he stood on the shoulders of giants. As Merton discovered, this saying antedated ...
... Robert Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon. In this 1942 magazine serial, which became a 1948 novel, one character says to another, “Well, in the first place an armed society is a polite society.” Verdict: Credit Robert Heinlein. “An ARMY ...
... Robert Heinlein's 1941 story “Logic of Empire,” one character says to another, “You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.” Verdict: Revised Heinlein. “He has no more BACKBONE than a chocolate éclair ...
... Robert” Fitzsimmons. Fitzsimmons popularized the slogan at the turn of the century when, on the eve of a heavyweight title fight with big Gus Ruhlin, he said, “You know the old saying, 'The bigger they are, the further they have to fall ...
... Robert Kerr also sported a sign reading, the buck stops here. Verdict: Credit an anonymous sloganeer as originator, Harry Truman as primary publicist. “We shape our BUILDINGS, then they shape us.” In the fall of 1943, members of ...
Contents
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BIBLIOGRAPHY | 259 |
SOURCE NOTES | 267 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 345 |
KEY WORD INDEX | 347 |
NAME INDEX | 375 |
SIDEBAR INDEX | 389 |