The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and WhenSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007 M04 1 - 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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... Dictionary of Quotations cites a long-discredited source for their attribution of “Go west, young man, go west” to Horace Greeley. Oxford's attribution of “There is one thing stronger than all the armies of the world, and that is an ...
... Dictionary of Quotations still reports that Leo Durocher said, “Nice guys finish last,” even though no serious quote scholar believes this any longer. The two most recent editions of Bartlett's include “A billion here, a billion there ...
... Suzy Platt of the Library of Congress, Rhoda Thomas Tripp's The International Thesaurus of Quotations, and, of course, The Quote Sleuth by Anthony Shipps. A newcomer, The Yale Dictionary of Quotations, benefits from the xx INTRODUCTION.
... Dictionary of Quotations, benefits from the diligent efforts of editor Fred Shapiro to trace that book's entries as far back as possible to their original source. Some older books such as Benham's Book of Quotations, Proverbs, and ...
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