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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... given at all, this is said to be from an inaugural speech by South Africa's two-term president. Aside from the fact that these words don't even sound like him, they do not appear in either inaugural address given by Mandela. On the ...
... given to Mark Twain in the United States, author Kurt Tucholsky in Germany. Depending on one's country of residence, “Oh, to be seventy again” is thought to be the quip of American octogenarian Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., French Premier ...
... given for a quotation, it can be less than dependable. Among other reasons, such sources are rarely ones that compilers have actually examined. More often they have simply recycled a citation found elsewhere on the Internet, just as ...
... given quotation. Bartlett's has Ulysses S. Grant proposing to fight it out on this line if it took him all summer; Oxford has him purposing to do the same thing. As discussed in the text, there is a reason for this discrepancy, and ...
... in passing within sidebars are neither boldfaced nor indexed. Sources for all quotations are given in the “Source Notes” section at the end. This page intentionally left blank THE Quote VERIFIER This page READER'S GUIDE.
Contents
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BIBLIOGRAPHY | 259 |
SOURCE NOTES | 267 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 345 |
KEY WORD INDEX | 347 |
NAME INDEX | 375 |
SIDEBAR INDEX | 389 |