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By David Murdock Special to The Gadsen Times Friday, July 22, 2011 I love quotations in general. I collect musings of the great minds like some people collect stamps. My notebooks are full of scrawled quotations and attributions. The short, pithy encapsulation of a truth impresses me greatly. After all, William Shakespeare said, “Brevity is …

By Bob Ewegen Ralph Keyes’s lovely little book “The Quote Verifier” attributes the famous line, “Academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small,” to political scientist Wallace Sayre. Sayre, in turn, may have been inspired by Woodrow Wilson’s observation that the intensity of the academic squabbles he witnessed while president of …

Universal Press Syndicate By James Kilpatrick In 1953 the New York Yankees won their fifth World Series in a row. Their popular catcher, Yogi Berra, took it in stride. “It’s deja vu all over again,” he said. The trouble is, he never said it. It’s also probable that he never said of a particular restaurant, …

Knoxville News Sentinel David Hunter A free book landed in my post office box last week. Sending free books to people who might mention them in print is an accepted form of bribery in the world of literature and journalism. Technically, it’s corruption, but there’s no obligation on the part of the recipient to mention …

Dallas Morning News By Jerome Weeks We know Humphrey Bogart never said, “Play it again, Sam.” But neither did Josef Stalin ever make such cynical observations as “A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic” and “No man, no problem.” In his ingenious new book, The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, …

By Mirela Roncevic Who is credited for saying “You are what you eat?” Karl Marx? According to this amusing A-to-Z compendium of famous sayings, it was actually philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach who in 1850 said “Man is what he eats,” but it was French politician Anthelme Brillat-Savarin who a whole quarter century earlier wrote “Tell me …