The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and WhenSt. Martin's Publishing Group, 2007年4月1日 - 416 頁 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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... Roosevelt's autobiography as their source for her attributed comment “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” That remark does not appear in Roosevelt's autobiography, nor anywhere else that researchers have been able ...
... Roosevelt, with reference to William McKinley. Roosevelt, in turn, may have borrowed the thought from House Speaker Thomas Reed. Spinal similes were quite popular after the Civil War. TR was especially fond of this genre of invective ...
... Roosevelt's “Brain Trust” was filled with “professors and others . . . who were born on third base . . .” Verdict: An old American saw. “When I was a BOY of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could barely stand to have the old man ...
... Roosevelt died in 1962, Adlai Stevenson observed that the former First Lady had been one who “would rather light a candle than curse the darkness, and her glow has warmed the world.” Stevenson was widely praised for this eloquent ...
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BIBLIOGRAPHY | 259 |
SOURCE NOTES | 267 |
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 345 |
KEY WORD INDEX | 347 |
NAME INDEX | 375 |
SIDEBAR INDEX | 389 |