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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... century. The Prussian field marshal's version was not so succinct, however. What von Moltke wrote was “Therefore no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.” In a process that's ...
... century sermon, launched this observation into public discourse as “an old saying”? Since clever lines so routinely ... centuries. How did Newton get credit for an observation that was at least five centuries old when he repeated it ...
... century issue included several misquotations. In one case after another, a search for the source of a popular quotation dead-ends with Reader's Digest. In earlier issues especially, verification of the many quotable quotes they ...
... centuries. An elite group of websites is less concerned with compiling quotations willy-nilly than with determining who actually said what. Librarians, lexicographers, and others do yeoman work in their online note-sharing about the ...
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