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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... Thomas Friedman, attribute a more sweeping version of that comment, “In the history of the world no one has ever washed a rented car,” to former Harvard president Lawrence Summers. Geography is another important factor when credit for ...
Who Said What, Where, and When Ralph Keyes. Quotations by Thomas Jefferson are especially susceptible to this type of verbal retrofitting. A congressional aide told me of quoting Jefferson about the ramifications of paying plumbers more ...
... by 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.
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