Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

by Clifton Fadiman

  Fauré 1: N. Rorem, Later Diaries

  Favras 1: M. Pedrazzini and J. Gris, Autant en apportent les mots

  Fawkes 1: J. Kenyon, Dictionary of British History

  Feller 1: C. Jones, What Makes Winners Win

  Ferdinand I (Austria) 1: E. Crankshaw, The Fall of the House of Hapsburg

  Ferdinand I (Bulgaria) 1: C. Skinner, Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals

  Ferdinand IV 1: E. C. Brewer, Dictionary of Phrase and Fable

  Ferguson 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women

  Fergusson 1: DNB

  Fermat 1: I. Asimov, Biographical Encyclopedia

  Fermi 1: P. Dunaway and G. De Kay, eds., Turning Point

  Feydeau 1–4: C. Skinner, Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals

  Feynmann 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women; 2: J. Gleick, Chaos: The Life and Science of Richard Feynmann

  Field, J., 1: E. Van de Velde, Anecdotes Musicales

  Field, M., 1: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook

  Fielding 1: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 2: J. Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA

  Fields 1: G. Fowler, Minutes of the Last Meeting; 2: R. Lewis, W. C. Fields; 3: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 4: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 5: “Daily Mirror” Old Codger’s Little Black Book 1

  Fiennes 1: M. Wiley and D. Bona, Inside Oscar

  Fillmore 1: J. Morgan, Our Presidents, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes

  Finley 1: M. Shannon, Tales from the Dugout: The Greatest True Baseball Stories Ever

  Fisher, M. F. K. 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women

  Fiske 1: H. Prochnow, Public Speaker’s Treasure Chest; 2: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women

  Fitzgerald, E., 1: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 30, 1983

  Fitzgerald, F. S., 1: A. Latham, Crazy Sundays; 3: A. Turnbull, F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Biography, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA

  Fitzsimmons 1: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury

  Flaherty 1: The New Yorker, June 11, 1949

  Flanner 1: J. Krementz, The Writer’s Image

  Flaubert 1: Book-of-the-Month Club News, 1955; 2: P. Stitt, The World’s Hieroglyphic Beauty: Five American Poets

  Fleetwood 1: J. Aubrey, Brief Lives

  Fleming 1: New York Times, Apr. 9, 1983

  Foch 1–2, 4–5: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 3: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook

  Fonda, H., 1: B. Adler, My Favorite Funny Story; 2: P. Boller, ed., Hollywood Anecdotes

  Fonda, J., 1: M. Wiley and D. Bona, Inside Oscar; 2: P. Boller, ed., Hollywood Anecdotes

  Fontanne 1: S. Marx, Mayer and Thalberg

  Fontenelle 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz; 2, 4: M. Pedrazzini and J. Gris, Autant en apportent les mots; 3: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 5: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words

  Foote 1: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 2–3: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 4, 7: W. Adams, Treasury of Modern Anecdote; 6: G. Lieberman, The Greatest Laughs of All Time

  Ford, B., 1: B. Dole, Great Political Wit; 2: B. Ford, The Times of My Life, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History; 3: Myra MacPherson, “Betty Ford at 60: My Life Is Just Beginning,” McCall’s, Mar. 1979, in Boller, Presidential Wives

  Ford, G., 1–2, 4: B. Dole, Great Political Wit; 3: Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Campaigns

  Ford, H., 1: C. Bowen, Yankee from Olympus; 3: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 6: D. Halberstam, The Reckoning

  Ford, J., 1: Tonight show, July 28, 1981; 2–4: M. Corey and G. Ochoa, The Man in Lincoln’s Nose

  Fordyce 1: S. Rogers, Table Talk

  Forgy 1: Los Angeles Times, June 3, 1982

  Forrest 1: B. W. Duke, Reminiscences of Gen. Basil W. Duke, C.S., in B. Botkin, A Civil War Treasury

  Fosdick 1: S. Harris, Pieces of Eight

  Foster 1: L. Humphrey, The Humor of Music

  Fouché 1: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, XI; 2: A. Duff Cooper, Talleyrand

  Fowler 1: H. Smith, The Life and Legend of Gene Fowler

  Fox, C., 1, 5: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2–3: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 4: Lord Broughton, Recollections of a Long Life, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ

  Fox, G., 1: H. and D. L. Thomas, Living Biographies of Religious Leaders

  Fraguier 1: J. Papesch, Europa Lächelt Noch Immer

  Francis I 1: W. Walsh, Handy Book of Curious Information

  Francis II 1: A. Bryant, The Age of Elegance; 2: E. Crankshaw, The Fall of the House of Hapsburg

  Francis Ferdinand 1: E. Crankshaw, The Fall of the House of Hapsburg

  Francis Joseph 1: S. Radecki, Das ABC des Lachens; 2: P. Méras, The Mermaids of Chenonceaux

  Francis of Assisi 1: H. Morton, A Traveller in Italy

  Franco 1: S. Bellow, Him with His Foot in His Mouth

  Franklin 1: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 2: H. S. Randall, The Life of Thomas Jefferson, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 3: D. George, A Book of Anecdotes; 4–5, 12–13: P. Zall, Ben Franklin Laughing; 6: Arthur D. Graeff, “Anecdotes Related in Pennsylvania-German Almanacs,” The American-German Review, VI (June 1940), in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 7: C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 8: C. Van Doren, Benjamin Franklin, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 9: Sarah Randolph, The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson, in D. Hall, OBALA; 10: P. Smith, A New Age Now Begins; 14: M. Strauss, Familiar Medical Quotations; 15: J. Train, Wit: The Best Things Ever Said

  Franks 1: G. Moorhouse, The Diplomats

  Frederick II 1: Sholto and Reuben Percy, The Percy Anecdotes, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes; 2: I. Asimov, Treasury of Humor; 3–4: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, X; 5–7, 11: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz; 8: G. Colman, Circle of Anecdote; 9: H. Prochnow, The Public Speaker’s Treasure Chest; 10: V. Nikolaev and A. Parry, The Loves of Catherine the Great

  Frederick Augustus I 1: W. Scholz, Das Buch des Lachens

  Frederick William I 1: EB; 2: Sylvester Douglas, Lord Glenbervie, Journals, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes; 3: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words

  Frederick William IV 1: G. Craig, The Germans; 2: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz

  Freud 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac; 2: Los Angeles Times, July 4, 1982; 3: P. Méras, The Mermaids of Chenonceaux

  Frith 1: W. Walsh, Handy Book of Curious Information

  Frohman 1: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words

  Fugger 1: T. Robards, The New York Times Book of Wine

  Fuller, Margaret, 1: F. Muir, Irreverent Social History; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes

  Fuller, Melville, 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes

  Fuller, R. B., 1: B. Taper, The Arts in Boston

  Fulton 1: M. Bishop, The Exotics

  Furtwängler 1: H. Schonberg, The Great Conductors

  Fuseli 1–2: P. Wescher, Schweitzer Künstler-Anekdoten

  Gabin 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes

  Gainsborough 1: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, X; 2: A. Cunningham, Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes

  Gaisford 1: J. Morris, The Oxford Book of Oxford

  Galbraith 1: J. Galbraith, A Life in Our Times

  Galen 1: R. Calder, Medicine and Man

  Galiani 1: H. Sievers, Musica Curiosa

  Galileo 1: J. Bartlett, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations

  Galois 1: E. Bell, Men of Mathematics

  Galvani 1: W. Penfield, The Second Career, in M. Strauss, Familiar Medical Quotations

  Gandhi 2: H. and D. L. Thomas, Living Biographies of Religious Leaders; 3: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 5: G. Brandreth, Joy of Lex

  Garbo 1: N. Zierold, The Moguls; 2: D. Niven, Bring On the Empty Horses; 3–4: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia
Book of Quotations by Women

  Gardner 1: J. McAleer, “Globe Man’s Daily Story,” Boston Globe, Jan. 8, 1960; 2: L. Tharp, Mrs. Jack; 4: A. Saarinen, The Proud Possessors

  Garland 1: A. King and M. Sheraton, Is Salami and Eggs Better Than Sex?

  Garrick 1: J. Boswell, Life of Johnson; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes

  Garrison 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes

  Garrod 1: D. Balsdon, Oxford Now and Then

  Garth 1: F. Winslow, Physic and Physicians, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes

  Garvey 1: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes

  Gates 1: C. Sifakis, Dictionary of Historic Nicknames

  Gauss 1: E. Bell, Men of Mathematics; 2: I. Asimov, Biographical Encyclopedia

  Gelon 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, II

  Geoffrin 1: Dugas de Bois St. Just, Paris, Versailles et les provinces

  George I 1: J. Spence, Anecdotes

  George II 1: A. Isaacs and E. Martin, Dictionary of Music; 2: E. Guérard, Dictionnaire Encyclopédique

  George III 2: B. Wilson, George III, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ; 3: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 4: W. Gates, Anecdotes of Great Musicians; 5: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 6: A. Bennett, “The King and I,” London Review of Books, Jan. 30, 1992; 7: E. Longford, The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes

  George IV 1: B. Disraeli, Lothair, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ; 2: H. L. Bulwer, Historical Characters, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes; 3: E. Longford, The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes

  George V 1: B. Cerf, The Life of the Party; 3: K. Rose, King George V; 4: R. Collier, The Rainbow People; 5: M. Pye, The King over the Water; 6: W. Manchester, The Last Lion; 8: J. Bryan, III, ed., Hodgepodge: A Commonplace Book; 9: N. Rees, Quote…Unquote

  George VI 1: P. Berton, The Royal Family; 2: P. Vandyke Price, The Penguin Book of Spirits and Liqueurs

  Gerard 1: P. Smith, America Enters the World

  Gershwin, George, 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2–3: O. Levant, Memoirs of an Amnesiac, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ; 4: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 5: A. Rubinstein, My Many Years

  Gesvres 1: L. Norton, Saint-Simon at Versailles

  Ghiberti 1: T. Craven, Men of Art

  Giamatti 1: J. McBride, High and Inside: The A-Z Guide to the Language of Baseball

  Giampetro 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenshatz

  Gibbon 1: D. George, A Book of Anecdotes; 2: Thomas Moore’s Journal, Dec. 12, 1844, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes; 3: H. Beste, Personal and Literary Memorials

  Gibbons 1: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?

  Gibson 1: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes

  Gide 1: N. Jones, A Book of Days for the Literary Year

  Gielgud 1: B. Forbes, Ned’s Girl; 2: R. Morley, Book of Bricks; 4: Time, Aug. 15, 1983

  Gilbert, Sir H., 1: T. Fuller, The Worthies of England, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes

  Gilbert, J., 1: G. Brandreth, Great Theatrical Disasters

  Gilbert, Sir W., 1: H. Evans, Personal Recollections; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 3: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 4–5: N. McPhee, Second Book of Insults; 6–7: J. Aye, Humour in the Theatre; 8: G. Brandreth, Great Theatrical Disasters; 9: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?

  Gillespie 1: B. Crow, Jazz Anecdotes

  Giolotti 1: P. Hoffmann, Rome — The Sweet, Tempestuous Life

  Giorgione 1: G. Vasari, Lives of the Painters

  Giotto 1–2: G. Vasari, Lives of the Painters; 3: P. Méras, The Mermaids of Chenonceaux

  Gipp 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Alamanac

  Gladstone 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: J. Papesch, Europa Lächelt Noch Immer

  Gluck 1: E. Guérard, Dictionnaire Encyclopédique

  Glyn 1: P. Mahony, Barbed Wit and Malicious Humor

  Godard 1: Time, Sept. 14, 1981

  Godiva 1: EB

  Godowsky 1: H. Taubman, Music on My Beat

  Goering 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes

  Goethe 1: D. Enright, The Oxford Book of Death; 2: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, X; 3: Oxford Dictionary of Quotations; 4: S. Behrman, Portrait of Max

  Gogarty 1: P. Bussard, The New Catholic Treasury of Wit and Humor; 2: W. Yeats, The Oxford Book of Modern Verse

  Goldsmith 1: C. Hibbert, The Personal History of Samuel Johnson

  Goldwater 1–2: B. Dole, Great Political Wit

  Goldwyn 1: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 2–3: D. Niven, Bring On the Empty Horses; 4–5: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 6: R. Marquard, Jokes and Anecdotes; 7–8: B. Cerf, Try and Stop Me; 9: H. Dietz, Dancing in the Dark; 10–11: J. Nash, Zanies; 12: G. Lieberman, The Greatest Laughs of All Time; 13: S. Graham, The Garden of Allah; 14, 18: S. Birmingham, “The Rest of Us”; 15–16: N. Zierold, The Moguls; 17: Life, Feb. 1984; 19: G. Herman, The Book of Hollywood Quotes

  Gordon, Lord George 1: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote

  Gorki 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes

  Gossage 1: B. Shlain, Baseball Inside Out

  Gosse 1: A. Noyes, Two Worlds for Memory

  Gould 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac; 2: J. Wheeler, “The Old Second Guesser,” Omaha World-Herald, Feb. 20, 1955, in B. Botkin, Treasury of American Anecdotes

  Grable 1: B. Cerf, Laughing Stock

  Grafton 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women

  Grant, C. 1: R. Webb and T. Carle, The Laughs on Hollywood

  Grant, U. S. 1: H. Garland, McClure’s Magazine, Feb. 1897, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 2: The New York Sun, July 26, 1885, in B. Botkin, A Civil War Treasury; 3: E. B. Long, ed., U. S. Grant: Personal Memoirs, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 4: “Anecdotes of General Grant,” New York Daily Tribune, Aug. 5, 1885, in B. Botkin, A Civil War Treasury; 5: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 6: B. Cerf, The Life of the Party; 7: H. Greene, General Grant’s Last Stand, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 8, 13: D. Wecter, The Hero in America, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 9: C. Tuckerman, “Personal Recollections of Notable People,” Magazine of American History, in Shriner, Wit; 10: L. Untermeyer, A Treasury of Laughter, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 11: S. Frank, The Presidents, in R. Shenkman and K. Reiger, One-Night Stands with American History; 12: New York Review of Books, Mar. 1981

  Grassini 1: J. Papesch, Europa Lächelt Noch Immer

  Graves 1: M. Seymour-Smith, Robert Graves: His Life and Work

  Gray 1: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote

  Graziano 1: R. Crouser, It’s Unlucky to Be Behind at the End of the Game

  Greeley 1: G. Fowler, Timber Line; 2, 4: R. Marquard, Jokes and Anecdotes; 3: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 5: J. H. Browne, “Horace Greeley,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, Apr. 1873, in B. Botkin, Treasury of American Anecdotes; 6: P. Mahony, Barbed Wit and Malicious Humor; 7: G. Lieberman, The Greatest Laughs of All Time; 8: J. H. Trietsch, The Printer and the Prince, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA

  Green, H., 1: I. Ross, Charmers and Cranks; 2: Parade, Oct. 17, 1982

  Green, J., 1: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words

  Greene 1: Book-of-the-Month Club News, Oct. 1949; 2: M. Korda, Another Life; 3: C. Fadiman

  Greenwood 1: J. W. Robertson Scott, The Story of the Pall Mall Gazette, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA

  Gregory I 1: Bede, History of the English Church and People; 2: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, IV

  Grey 1: B. Tuchman, The Guns of August; 2: W. Churchill, Great Contemporaries

  Grimm 1: J. Braude, Braude’s Second Encyclopedia

  Grote 1: J. Gere and J. Sparrow, Geoffrey Madan’s Notebooks

  Guggenheim 1: P. Méras, The Mermaids of Chenonceaux

  Guimond 1: F. Loliée, Gilded Beauties of the Second Empire

  Guines 1: S. Alsop, Yankees at the Court

  Guitry 1: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook

  Gunther 1: Book-of-the-Month Club News, Aug. 1947

  Guthrie 1: A. Guinness, Blessi
ngs in Disguise

  Gwyn 1: DNB; 2: L. and M. Cowan, The Wit of Women

  Hadrian 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, III

  Haeseler 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz

  Hagen 2: A. Cooke, The Patient Has the Floor

  Halbe 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz

  Haldane 1: V. Castlerosse, Valentine’s Days

  Hale 1: I. Wallace et al., The Book of Lists 2

  Halifax, C., 1: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, VIII

  Halifax, E., 1: Book-of-the-Month Club News, Jan. 1954

  Hall 1: W. Walsh, Handy Book of Curious Information

  Hamilton 1: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury

  Hammerstein II 1: H. Fordin, Getting to Know Him; 3: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?

  Hammett 1: D. Johnson, Dashiell Hammett; 3: L. Hellman, An Unfinished Woman

  Hamsun 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz

  Handel 1: E. Jones, A Food Lover’s Companion; 2–4: H. C. Robbins Landon, Handel and His World

  Hannibal 1: Livy, Annals

  Hardy 1: New York Review of Books, Oct. 7, 1982

  Harlow 1: C. Bowen, The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O’Neill, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA

  Harriman 1: The New Yorker, May 10, 1952; 2: The New Yorker, May 3, 1952

  Harris 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: S. Beach, Shakespeare and Co., in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 3: D. Cecil, Max: A Biography

  Harrison, Benjamin, 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac

  Harrison, President Benjamin, 1: H. L. Stoddard, As I Knew Them: Presidents and Politics from Grant to Coolidge, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes

  Hart 1: O. Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar

  Harte 1: W. Scholz, Das Buch des Lachens

  Hartleben 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz

  Hatto 1: W. Walsh, Handy Book of Curious Information

  Havemeyer 1: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 2: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?; 3: R. Stewart, Nathaniel Hawthorne, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA

  Hawthorne, Nigel, 1: M. Wiley and D. Bona, Inside Oscar

  Hawtrey 1: G. Brandreth, Great Theatrical Disasters

  Hay 1: Quarterly Review, no. 218, 1861, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes