The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and WhenSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007 M04 1 - 416 páginas 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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... People: Searching for Community The Wit and Wisdom of Harry Truman The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde The Writer's Book of Hope: Getting from Frustration to Publication ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN NEW YORK THE Quote VERIFIER Ralph Keyes.
... Harry Truman with saying, “If you run a Republican against a Republican, the Republican will win every time.” Although this certainly sounds like the feisty, fiercely partisan Democratic president, researchers at the Harry S. Truman ...
... Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Missouri. According to a mid-1946 press account, the desk of Oklahoma governor Robert Kerr also sported a sign reading, the buck stops here. Verdict: Credit an anonymous sloganeer as originator, ...
... Harry Truman after Truman observed that Attlee was a modest man. Churchill supposedly responded, “He has much to be modest about!” Archivists at the Truman Library can find no evidence that such an exchange took place. Richard Langworth ...
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BIBLIOGRAPHY | 259 |
SOURCE NOTES | 267 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 345 |
KEY WORD INDEX | 347 |
NAME INDEX | 375 |
SIDEBAR INDEX | 389 |