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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... writer seldom gets credit for this well-known contemporary quotation. Who's heard of Herbert? This suggests another key reason for getting quotations wrong: the need to put them in familiar mouths. Quoting Mark Twain about a lie ...
... writers wouldn't print it the way I said it.” In a case such as this, propriety may have been in the driver's seat. In ... writing, or reporter's notes, could only grow fitfully in the arid soil of print on paper. Not so online. Like a ...
... writing. It also is important to focus on examples of earliest relevant use, not simply random uses. Undoubtedly someone, somewhere, sometime said, “War is hell” before the American Civil War, but in a book such as this, we are more ...
... writer Hans Bendix said his aunt told him French Premier Georges Clemenceau (1841–1929) made this observation about America. Bendix's article seems to be the only source for that attribution, which now appears in many a quotation ...