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Every Time I Smell It, I Shall Be Reminded of You 24 Aug 2013 | 08:48 am
Oscar Wilde? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: I saw an article on the web about brilliant repartee that listed the “Top 10 Best Comebacks”. One of the response lines was from the famous wit Oscar...
Continuous Effort — Not Strength or Intelligence — Is the Key to Unlocking and Using Our Potential 21 Aug 2013 | 12:17 pm
Winston Churchill? Liane Cordes? Liane Cardes? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: On two popular websites with large collections of quotations I found an appealing statement ascribed to the famous ...
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket, or Are You Just Glad to See Me? 20 Aug 2013 | 12:53 pm
Mae West? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: Screenwriter and sex symbol Mae West is usually credited with the following ribald line: Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just glad to see m...
Academic Politics Are So Vicious Because the Stakes Are So Small. 19 Aug 2013 | 01:56 am
Henry Kissinger? Wallace Sayre? Charles Frankel? Samuel Johnson? Jess Unruh? Laurence J. Peter? Dear Quote Investigator: The following saying is often attributed to the prominent U.S. foreign policy ...
A Short Story Must Have a Single Mood and Every Sentence Must Build Towards It 16 Aug 2013 | 07:52 am
Edgar Allan Poe? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: On a popular website I saw an intriguing list of “Indispensable Writing Tips from Famous Authors”. The following words were attributed to Edgar A...
Deathbed Remark: This Is No Time To Be Making New Enemies 14 Aug 2013 | 07:54 am
Voltaire? Niccolò Machiavelli? Wilson Mizner? Dying Irishman? Canny Scot? Aging Rock Star? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: While reading speeches given by Nobel Prize recipients I came across an...
If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try Again. Then Quit. There’s No Use Being a Damn Fool About It 12 Aug 2013 | 05:16 am
W. C. Fields? Stephen Leacock? Justin J. Burns? Henry Morgan? George Burns? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: A well-known saying about persistence has become an energyless cliché: If at first you...
Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You 10 Aug 2013 | 12:35 am
Eleanor Roosevelt? Mary Schmich? Kurt Vonnegut? Baz Luhrmann? Ralph Waldo Emerson? Jane Addams? Mark Toby? Dear Quote Investigator: To achieve personal growth it is sometimes necessary to move outsid...
They Haven’t Done Anything to My Book. It’s Right There on the Shelf 7 Aug 2013 | 01:49 am
Raymond Chandler? James M. Cain? Alan Moore? William S. Burroughs? Larry Niven? Stephen King? Elmore Leonard? William Faulkner? Owen Sheers? Dear Quote Investigator: I have heard the following anecdo...
A Statue Has Never Been Set Up in Honour of a Critic 4 Aug 2013 | 10:34 pm
Zig Ziglar? Jean Sibelius? Bengt de Törne? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: When the famous motivational speaker Zig Ziglar died last year I saw a list of ten quotations ascribed to him. One was a...
