Bonner 1: G. Taylor, The Great Evolution Mystery
Boone 1: Book-of-the-Month Club News, Oct. 1972
Booth, J. B., 1, 4: W. Winter, Other Days; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 3: G. Vidal, Lincoln
Borges 1: R. Alifano, Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges
Borghese 1: M. Marmont, Memoirs, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great
Borromeo 1: P. Bussard, The New Catholic Treasury of Wit and Humor
Bosquet 1: C. Woodham-Smith, The Reason Why
Bossuet 1: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote; 2: J. Larwood, Anecdotes of the Clergy
Boswell 1: EB; 2: H. Pearson, Johnson and Boswell
Botticelli 1: G. Vasari, Lives of the Painters
Bottomley 1: A. Sylvester, Life with Lloyd George; 2: A. J. P. Taylor, English History 1914–1945, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ
Bouhours 1: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Boulanger, G., 1: I. Wallace, The Nympho & Other Maniacs
Boulanger, N., 1: A. Kendall, The Tender Tyrant
Boult 1: A. Boyle, Only the Wind Will Listen
Bowen, E., 1: H. Moss, Whatever Is Moving
Bowen, L., 1: M. Cable, Top Drawer
Bowles, P., 1: M. Dillon, review of P.
Bowles’s Two Years Beside the Strait: Tangier Journal 1967–1987, Times Literary Supplement, Sept. 7–14, 1990
Bowles, W., 1–2: S. C. Hall, A Book of Memories, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes
Bowra 1: Oxfam, Pass the Port
Bradford 1: J. Bartlett, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Bradley 1: R. Bridges, Three Friends, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA
Brady 1: B. Cerf, Bumper Crop of Anecdotes
Brahe 1: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Brahms 1, 3–4: P. Latham, Brahms; 5: A. Rubinstein, My Younger Years; 6, 8: N. Slominsky, A Thing or Two About Music; 7: P. Méras, The Mermaids of Chenonceaux; 10: J. Braude, Braude’s Second Encyclopedia
Braithwaite 1: G. Brandreth, Great Theatrical Disasters; 2: A. Faulkner and T. Hartman, All the Best People
Brancusi 1: Compton’s Encyclopedia
Braque 1: R. Penrose, Ronald Penrose Scrapbook
Brendel 1: Letter from Emily Misser, London Review of Books, May 25, 1992
Briand 1–2: E. Kelen, Peace in Their Time
Bridger 1–2: American Scholar, VIII (1938–39)
Brillat-Savarin 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac
Britten 1–2: N. Lebrecht, The Book of Musical Anecdotes
Brodie, Sir B., 1: L. Cliffe, Anecdotal Reminiscences
Brodie, W., 1: “Daily Mirror” Old Codger’s Little Black Book 4
Brontë, C., 1: A. Harrison and D. Stanford, Anne Brontë; 2: D. Frost, Book of the World’s Worst Decisions
Brookfield 1: J. Aye, Humour in the Theatre
Brooks, P., 1: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook
Brougham 1: N. McPhee, The Book of Insults; 2: S. Smith, Memoir of the Rev. Sydney Smith by His Daughter; 3: K. Arvine, Cyclopaedia of Anecdotes
Broun 1: G. Brandreth, Great Theatrical Disasters; 2: H. Broun, Whose Little Boy Are You?
Brown, C. B., 1: D. L. Clark, Charles Brockden Brown: Pioneer Voice of America, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA
Brown, G., 1–2: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes
Brown, J., 1: The New Yorker, Oct. 18, 1952; 2: C. Canfield, Up and Down and Around
Browning, E., 1: F. Winwar, The Immortal Lovers; 2: A. Bernard, Now All We Need Is a Title
Browning, R., 1: B. Cerf, Laughing Stock; 2: G. W. E. Russell, Collections, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 3: F. Winwar, The Immortal Lovers
Bruce 1: J. Pinkerton, Walpoliana, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ
Brummell 1–5: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 6: D. George, A Book of Anecdotes; 8: E. Sitwell, English Eccentrics
Brunet 1: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes
Bruno 1: EB
Bryan 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: I. Stone, They Also Ran; 3: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury
Buchanan 1: A. C. Buell, History of Andrew Jackson, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 2: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury
Buckingham 1: C. Roberts, And So to Bath
Buckland 1: J. Morris, The Oxford Book of Oxford; 2: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote
Buckley 1: Los Angeles Times, Apr. 11, 1982
Buddha 1: R. Tung, A Portrait of Lost Tibet; 2: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, I
Budé 1: C. Fadiman, Any Number Can Play
Buffalmacco 1: G. Vasari, Lives of the Painters
Bull 1: P. Phillips, A Brief Chronicale; 2: Anthony à Wood, Fasti Oxonienses, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ
Buller 1: S. Weintraub, The London Yankees
Bülow 1: H. Schonberg, The Great Pianists; 2–3: N. Slominsky, A Thing or Two About Music; 4: H. Schonberg, The Great Conductors
Bunsen 1: J. Read, Humour and Humanism in Chemistry
Burke 1: K. C. Balderston, ed., Thraliana, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 2–3: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 4: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote; 5: W. Adams, Treasury of Modern Anecdote
Burns 1: S. Allen, Funny People; 2: G. Burns, Third Time Around
Burr 2: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Burton, R., 2: Interview with Dick Cavett, PBS, 1986
Burton, Sir R., 1: M. Hastings, Richard Burton; 2: L. Blanch, The Wilder Shores of Love
Busby 1–2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Busch 1: Sir R. Bing, 5000 Nights at the Opera
Bush, B., 1–3: B. Dole, Great Political Wit
Bush, G., 1–3: B. Dole, Great Political Wit; 4: C. Jones, What Makes Winners Win
Butler, B. F., 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac; 2: Herbert W. Beecher, History of the First Light Battery Connecticut Volunteers 1861–1865, in B. Botkin, A Civil War Treasury
Butler, H. M., 1: A. Milne, It’s Too Late Now
Butler, S., 1: H. Festing Jones, Samuel Butler: A Memoir, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 2: M. MacCarthy, A Nineteenth-Century Childhood, in Sutherland, OBLA; 3–5: G. Keynes and B. Hill, eds., Samuel Butler’s Notebooks
Byng 1: H. Walpole, Memoirs, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ
Byrd 1: A. Hatch, The Byrds of Virginia
Byron 1: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote; 2: S. Rogers, Table Talk; 3–4: K. Arvine, Cyclopaedia of Anecdotes
Cabell 1: B. Cerf, The Life of the Party
Cadbury 1: I. and R. Poley, Friendly Anecdotes
Caen 1: B. Conrad, Fun While It Lasted
Caesar, Julius, 1–4, 8–9: Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars; 5–7: Plutarch, Lives
Cagliostro 1: W. Scholz, Das Buch des Lachens
Cagney 1: Parade, Aug. 5, 1984; 2–3: Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times
Caine 1: Book-of-the-Month Club News, 1947
Calhern 1: New York Times Book Review, July 12, 1981
Caligula 1, 3–5: Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars; 2: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, III
Callas 1: Sir R. Bing, 5000 Nights at the Opera; 3: N. Lebrecht, The Book of Musical Anecdotes
Cambridge 1: H. and D. L. Thomas, Living Biographies of Famous Women
Cambronne 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac
Cambyses II 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, I Cameron, J. 1: R. Martin, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart
Cameron of Lochiel 1: T. Mason, The Best Stories in the World
Campbell, Mrs. P., 1: G. Fallon, Sean O’Casey, The Man I Knew, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 2: G. Kanin, Hollywood; 3: L. Missen, Quotable Anecdotes; 5, 8: M. Peters, Mrs. Pat; 6: C. Tomkins, Living Well Is the Best Revenge; 7: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook
Campbell, T., 1: Sir G. Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macauley; 2: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote
Cane 1: C. Speroni, Wit and Wisdom of the Itali
an Renaissance
Canning 1: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 2: C. Sifakis, Dictionary of Historic Nicknames
Cannon 1: M. Schlesinger, Snatched from Oblivion
Canute 1: Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum
Capa 1: ’47, The Magazine of the Year
Capone 1: J. Kobler, Capone
Capus 1: C. Skinner, Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals
Caray 1–2: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes
Cardano 1: I. Asimov, Biographical Encyclopedia
Cardozo 1: R. Marquard, Jokes and Anecdotes
Carême 1: W. H. Auden, A Certain World: A Commonplace Book
Carillo 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Carleton 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Carlos I 1: H. Prochnow, The Public Speaker’s Treasure Chest
Carlton 1: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes; 2: M. Shannon, Tales from the Dugout: The Greatest True Baseball Stories Ever
Carlyle 2: Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff, Notes from a Diary, in Sutherland, OBLA; 3: N. Rees, Quote…Unquote; 4: A. J. C. Hare, The Story of My Life
Carnegie 1: G. Fowler, Beau James; 2: E. Wagenknecht, American Profile; 3: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 4: Book-of-the-Month Club News, Dec. 1952; 5: R. L. Heilbroner, “Carnegie & Rockefeller” in A Sense of History
Carol II 1: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook
Caroline, Duchesse De Berri, 1: A. Castelot, Paris: The Turbulent City
Caroline of Ansbach 1: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 2: Hervey, Memoirs of George the Second, in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Caroline of Brunswick 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 3: A. Bryant, The Age of Elegance; 4: The Journal of Hon. Henry Edward Fox, 25 Aug. 1821, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ
Caroto 1–2: G. Vasari, Lives of the Painters
Carroll, L. 1: L. Missen, Quotable Anecdotes; 2: R. Green, Diaries of Lewis Carroll; 3: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Carson 1: K. Tynan, Show People; 2–3: S. Cox, Here’s Johnny; 4: E. Drew, Portrait of an Election, in P. F. Boller, ed., Presidential Campaigns
Carter 2, 4, 9–10: B. Dole, Great Political Wit; 3: Kandy Stroud, How Jimmy Won, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Campaigns; 5: Bill Adler, ed., Wit and Wisdom of Jimmy Carter, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 6: J. Carter, Keeping Faith; 7: “He Can Catch Fire,” Time, Jan. 5, 1981, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 8: R. Byrne, The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Cartland 1: J. Cooper, Class
Caruso 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac; 2: H. Greenfield, Caruso; 3: E. Van de Velde, Anecdotes Musicales
Casals 1: A. Whitman, Come to Judgment; 2–3: M. Eastman, Great Companions; 4: Y. Karsh, Karsh
Cassatt 1: A. Vollard, Recollections of a Picture Dealer
Castiglione 1: I. Wallace et al., Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
Castlerosse 1: P. Ziegler, Diana Cooper
Castracani 1: Ludovico Domenichi in C. Speroni, Wit and Wisdom of the Italian Renaissance
Castro 1–2: C. Franqui, Family Portrait with Fidel
Cather 1: W. Bynner, Prose Pieces, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA
Catherine of Aragon 1: W. Abbot, Notable Women in History
Catherine II 1: W. Abbot, Notable Women in History
Cato 1: Oxford Companion to Classical History; 2: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook; 3: F. Callières, Des Bons mots et des bons contes
Cavell 1: The Times (London), Oct. 23, 1915, in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Cecil 1: J. Train, True Remarkable Occurrences
Cervantes 1: Compton’s Encyclopedia
Cetewayo 1: J. Smail, With Shield and Assegai
Cézanne 1: Compton’s Encyclopedia
Chaliapin 1–2: S. Beach, Musicdotes; 3: R. Merrill, Between Acts
Chaloner 1: The New Yorker, Nov. 26, 1955
Chamberlain, J., 1: T. Masson, The Best Stories in the World
Chamberlain, Sir J. A., 1: Frances Stevenson diary, Mar. 5, 1919, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ
Chandler 1: F. MacShane, The Life of Raymond Chandler, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA
Chanel 1: F. Steegmuller, Cocteau; 3: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Channing 1: B. Adler, My Favorite Funny Story
Chaplin 1: C. Seelig, Albert Einstein; 2: L. Lucaire, Celebrity Trivia; 3: D. Niven, Bring On the Empty Horses; 4: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Chapman, John, 1: Robert Price, Johnny Appleseed, Man and Myth, in B. Botkin, Treasury of American Anecdotes; 2: P. Smith, The Nation Comes of Age
Chapman, John Jay, 1: C. Canfield, Up and Down and Around
Charlemagne 1: Draper and Esquin sales brochure
Charles II 1: T. Blount, Boscobel; 2: J. Aubrey, Miscellanies; 3: Gilbert Burnet, History of My Own Time, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ; 4: James Granger, Biographical History of England, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ; 5: I. and R. Poley, Friendly Anecdotes; 6: William King, Anecdotes, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes; 7: Jonathan Richardson, Richardsoniana, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 8: J. Bartlett, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations; 9: Gilbert Burnet, History of My Own Time, in B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Charles V 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, V; 2: H. Prochnow, The Public Speaker’s Treasure Chest
Charles X 1–2: W. Adams, Treasury of Modern Anecdote
Charles Francis Joseph 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz 1: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote
Charondas 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, II
Chase, I., 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Chase, S., 1: B. Cerf, Bumper Crop of Anecdotes
Chateaubriand 1: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 2: C. Brinton, The Lives of Talleyrand
Chekhov 1: A. Chekhov, The Image of Chekhov; 2: J. Epstein, “Chekhov’s Last Souls,” The New Criterion, May 1986; 3: H. Troyat, Chekhov
Cherubini 1: W. Gates, Anecdotes of Great Musicians; 2: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenshatz; 3: J. Papesch, Europa Lächelt Noch Immer; 4: H. Sievers, Musica Curiosa
Chesterfield 1, 4: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 3: DNB
Chesterton 1, 7–8: A. Dale, The Outline of Sanity; 2–3, 12: G. Chesterton, Charles Dickens (foreword); 4: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz; 6: W. Scholz, Das Buch des Lachens; 9: H. Pearson, Lives of the Wits; 10: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook; 11: C. Asquith, Portrait of Barrie; 14: B. Cerf, Try and Stop Me; 15: J. Train, Wit: The Best Things Ever Said
Chigi 1: P. Méras, The Mermaids of Chenonceaux
Choate 1–2, 4: T. Strong, Joseph Choate; 3: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 5: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Chopin 1: H. Finck, Musical Laughs; 2: N. Slonimsky, A Thing or Two About Music
Christian X 1: K. Edwards, More Things I Wish I’d Said
Christie, A. 1: B. Cerf, The Life of the Party; 2: I. Wallace, “Significa,” Nov. 13, 1983
Christina 1: W. Abbot, Notable Women in History
Churchill, R., 1: K. Halle, Randolph Churchill; 2: W. Manchester, The Last Lion, vol. II: Alone: Winston Churchill 1932–1940
Churchill, Lord R., 1: A. Leslie, The Remarkable Mr. Jerome
Churchill, Sir W. 1: Book-of-the-Month Club News, Apr. 1954; 2, 25, 35: L. Rosten, People I Have Loved, Known, or Admired; 3–4: E. Marsh, A Number of People; 5: V. Bonham Carter, Winston Churchill, An Intimate Portrait, in W. Manchester, The Last Lion; 6: A. Sylvester, Life with Lloyd George; 7: E. Langhorne, Nancy Astor and Her Friends, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ; 8: K. Halle, Randolph Churchill; 9: W. Churchill, Thoughts and Adventures; 11: M. MacDonald, Titans and Others; 12: L. Missen, Quotable Anecdotes; 14: DNB; 15, 20: R. Collier, The Road to Pearl Harbor; 16, 28–30: W. Manchester, The Last Lion; 18, 21, 36: O. Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar; 19: J. Green, Morrow’s Dictionary of Quotations; 23: N. Rees, Quote…Unquo
te; 24: Penguin Dictionary of Quotations; 26: M. and A. Guillois, Liberté, Egalité, Hilarité; 27: Los Angeles Times, Mar. 25, 1982; 32: S. Shadegg, Clare Boothe Luce
Chwolson 1: L. Rosten, Joys of Yiddish
Cibber 1: T. Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ Cicero 1–2: Macrobius, Saturnalia
Cimon 1: Plutarch, Lives Cinque 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac Claire 1: R. Lamparski, Whatever Became Of…?
Clark, G. R., 1: P. Smith, The Shaping of America
Clark, M. W., 1: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook
Clay, C., 1: S. Sifakis, Dictionary of Historic Nicknames
Clay, H., 1: R. Marquard, Jokes and Anecdotes; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 3: H. Wright and S. Rapport, The Great Explorers; 4: T. H. Clay, Henry Clay, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 5: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 6: D. Knox, More Quotable Anecdotes; 7: L. Harris, The Fine Art of Political Wit
Clemenceau 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: M. and A. Guillois, Liberté, Egalité, Hilarité; 3: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook; 4: A. Sylvester, Life with Lloyd George; 5: H. Acton, More Memoirs of an Aesthete; 6: B. Cerf, Try and Stop Me; 7: L. Missen, After-Dinner Stories and Anecdotes; 8: P. Smith, America Enters the World; 9: I. Hamilton, Koestler
Cleopatra 1: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Cleveland, 1: J. Schermerhorn, Schermerhorn Stories, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 2: American Scholar III (1934)
Clinton 1–5: B. Dole, Great Political Wit
Clive 1: Sir G. Trevelyan, Life and Letters of Lord Macauley, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes; 2: D. George, A Book of Anecdotes
Clurman 1–2: R. Lewis, Slings and Arrows
Cobb 1: R. Marquard, Jokes and Anecdotes; 2: J. C. Humes, Speaker’s Treasury
Cocteau 1: H. Acton, More Memoirs of an Aesthete; 2: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz; 3: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook
Cohan 1: O. Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar; 2: S. Marx and J. Clayton, Rodgers and Hart; 3: Book-of-the-Month Club News, Mar. 1944; 4: S. Alexander, Talking Woman
Cohn 1: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 2: Los Angeles Times, June 25, 1982; 3: G. Kanin, Hollywood
Coke 1: J. Aubrey, Brief Lives
Colavito 1: J. C. Humes, Speaker’s Treasury
Cole 1: DNB
Coleridge 1: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote; 2: S. T. Coleridge, Kubla Khan; 3: L. Russell, English Wits; 4: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook; 5: C. R. Leslie, Autobiographical Recollections, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 6: T. Moore, Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence
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