Haydn 1: Quarterly Review, no. 218, 1861, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes; 2: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, X; 3: N. Slonimsky, A Thing or Two About Music; 4: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Hayes, H., 1: B. Thomas, Thalberg: Life and Legend; 3–4: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Hayes, R., 1: G. F. Hoar, Autobiography of Seventy Years, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes
Hayworth 1: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury
Hazlitt 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote
Heap 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Hearst 1: Kenin and Wintle, DBQ; 2: P. Kael, The Citizen Kane Book; 3: R. Marquard, Jokes and Anecdotes; 4: J. Tebbel, The Inheritors
Hecht 1: The New Yorker, Dec. 13, 1952
Hegel 1: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Heggen 1: R. Nelson, The Almanac of American Letters
Heidegger 1: F. Muir, Irreverent Social History
Heifetz 1: O. Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar; 2: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 29, 1982; 3: H. Temianka, Facing the Music
Heine 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac; 2: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words; 3: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Held 1: J. McBride, High and Inside: The A-Z Guide to the Language of Baseball
Helmsley 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Hemingway 1: P. Méras, The Mermaids of Chenonceaux; 2: B. Morton, Americans in Paris; 3: B. Cerf, Try and Stop Me; 4, 9: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 5: Signature, Sept. 1983; 7: A. Hotchner, Choice People; 8: Y. Karsh, Karsh
Henri IV 1, 5: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, VII; 2: EB; 3: E. Guérard, Dictionnaire Encyclopédique; 4: K. Arvine, Cyclopaedia of Anecdotes; 6: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote
Henry 1: O. Henry, The Voice of the City
Henry II 1: DNB
Henry IV 1: DNB
Henry VIII 1: L. and F. Copeland, 10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories; 2: “Daily Mirror” Old Codger’s Little Black Book 1
Henson 1: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life
Henze 1: N. Lebrecht, The Book of Musical Anecdotes
Hepburn 1: Parade, Nov. 27, 1983; 3: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Herman 1: J. McBride, High and Inside: The A-Z Guide to the Language of Baseball
Herschel 1: DNB
Hess 1: H. Temianka, Facing the Music
Hideyoshi 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, I
Hilbert 1–2: G. Polya, “Some Mathematicians I Have Known,” in D. Campbell and J. Higgins, eds., Mathematics: People, Problems, Results
Hill, J., 1: A. de Morgan, Encyclopedia of Eccentrics
Hill, R., 1–2: W. Adams, Treasury of Modern Anecdote
Hillary 1: E. Hillary, High Adventure
Hindemith 1: R. Smullyan, 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies
Hitchcock 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 5–6: C. Madigan and A. Elwood, Brainstorms and Thunderbolts; 7: D. Spoto, The Dark Side of Genius
Hobson, L., 1: L. Hobson, Laura Z.
Hobson, T., 1: DNB
Hoffman 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz
Hofman 1: O. Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar; 2: H. Taubman, Music on My Beat; 3: H. Temianka, Facing the Music
Hogan 1: S. Snead, The Game I Love
Hogarth 1: G. Colman, Circle of Anecdote
Hokusai 1: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Holles 1: A. Fraser, Cromwell
Holliday 1: G. Steinem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
Holmes, F., 1–3: C. Bowen, Yankee from Olympus
Holmes, J., 1–3: C. Bowen, Yankee from Olympus
Holmes, O. Sr., 1: M. Howe, Holmes of the Breakfast Table; 2: R. Shenkman and K. Reiger, One-Night Stands with American History; 3: W. D. Howells, Literary Friends and Acquaintances, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 4: C. Bowen, Yankee from Olympus; 5: C. Ticknor, Dr. Holmes’s Boston
Holmes, O. Jr., 1–4, 6–7: C. Bowen, Yankee from Olympus; 5: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 8: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Homer 1: ’47, The Magazine of the Year
Hook 1: DNB; 2: L. Russell, English Wits; 3: K. Arvine, Cyclopaedia of Anecdotes; 4: D. Knox, More Quotable Anecdotes
Hooker 1: J. Bigelow, Jr., Sidney V. Lowell in the Campaign at Chancellorsville, in B. Botkin, A Civil War Treasury Hoover 1: A. Krock, Memoirs, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Memoirs; 2: E. Lyons, Herbert Hoover: A Biography, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 3: I. Wallace et al., Book of Lists 2; 4: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury
Horne 1: S. Terkel, “The Good War”
Horowitz 1, 3: O. Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar; 2: J. Gaines, Lives of the Piano
Horthy De Nagybánya 1: E. Kelen, Peace in Their Time
Houdini 1: F. Oursler, Behold This Dreamer; 2: H. Prochnow, The Public Speaker’s Treasure Chest; 3: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Housman 1: R. Graves, A. E. Housman
Howard, C., 1: I. Wallace et al., Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
Howard, L., 1: L. and F. Copeland, 10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories
Howarth 1: S. Rogers, Table Talk
Howe, E., 1: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook
Howe, I., 1: A Bernard, Now All We Need Is a Title
Howe, J., 1–2: W. Abbot, Notable Women in History
Howells 1: M. Howe, John Jay Chapman; 2–3: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Hoy 1: C. Jones, What Makes Winners Win
Hruska 1: Congressional Quarterly, vol. 3
Hudson 1: P. Boller, ed., Hollywood Anecdotes
Hughes 1: J. S. Haskins, Always Movin’ On: The Life of Langston Hughes, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA
Hugo 1: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 2: E. Samuels, The Education of Henry Adams; 3: R. Godden, Hans Christian Andersen; 4: G. Lieberman, The Greatest Laughs of All Time
Hull, C., 1: J. Braude, Braude’s Second Encyclopedia
Hull, I., 1: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Hume 1: E. Guérard, Dictionnaire Encyclopédique; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 3: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote; 4: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, IX; 5: H. Brougham, Men of Letters
Humphrey 1–4: B. Dole, Great Political Wit
Hunter 1: New Scientist, Nov. 9, 1981
Huston 1: D. Niven, Bring On the Empty Horses; 2: P. Hay, ed., Movie Anecdotes
Hutton, E. F., 1: B. Fussell, I Hear America Cooking
Hutton, L., 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Huxley, A., 1, 3: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac 2; 2: R. Clark, The Huxleys
Huxley, T., 1: R. Moore, Charles Darwin; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Hyde, Lady C., 1: L. and M. Cowan, The Wit of Women
Hyde, W., 1: E. Lucas, A Fronded Isle
Hylan 1: C. Sifakis, Dictionary of Historic Nicknames
Hyrtl 1: M. Jelusisch, Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald
Ibn Saud 1–2: R. Lacey, The Kingdom
Ibrahim Pasha 1: R. Lacey, The Kingdom
Ibsen 1: C. Fadiman, Introduction to E. Wharton, Ethan Frome; 4: J. Train, True Remarkable Occurrences
Ikku 1: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life
Inge 1: A. Noyes, Two Worlds for Memory
Ingersoll 1: L. and F. Copeland, 10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories
Ingyo 1: J. Kidder, Ancient Japan
Iphicrates 1: L. Missen, Quotable Anecdotes
Irving, Sir Henry, 1: E. Heron-Allen, We Saw Him Act, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ; 2: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Irving, W., 1: E. Wagenknecht, Washington Irving: Moderation Displayed, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 2: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Isabey 1: J. Timbs, Century of An
ecdote
Jackson, A., 1–2, 5: J. Parton, Life of Andrew Jackson, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 4: B. Poore, Perley’s Reminiscences of Sixty Years, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes
Jackson, J., 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac 2
Jackson, R., 1: P. O’Brian, Talkin’ Sports; 2–3: B. Adler, Baseball Wit
Jackson, S., 1: B. Gill, Here at The New Yorker, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA
Jackson, T., 1: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 2: M. J. Preston, “Personal Reminiscences of Stonewall Jackson,” Century Magazine, XXXII (Oct. 1886), in B. Botkin, A Civil War Treasury; 3: R. Stiles, Four Years Under Marse Robert, in Botkin, A Civil War Treasury; 4–5: C. M. Blackford, ed., Letters from Lee’s Army, in Botkin, A Civil War Treasury; 6: Maj. H. K. Douglas, I Rode with Stonewall, in Botkin, A Civil War Treasury; 7: J. Train, Wit: The Best Things Ever Said; 8: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Jacobi 1: E. Bell, Men of Mathematics
James, H., 1–2: D. Cecil, Max: A Biography; 3: E. Wharton, A Backward Glance, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 4: L. Edel, Henry James: The Middle Years 1882–1895, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 6: L. Edel, ed., The Diary of Alice James, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 7: D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 8: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury
James, J., 1: R. Love, The Rise and Fall of Jesse James
James, W., 1: American Scholar I: 4 (1931); 2: L. Lucaire, Celebrity Trivia; 3: J. Barzun, A Stroll with William James; 4: Book-of-the-Month Club News, Apr. 1948
James I 1: G. Colman, Circle of Anecdote; 2: “Daily Mirror” Old Codger’s Little Black Book 1; 3: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote
Jarry 1: P. Méras, The Mermaids of Chenonceaux; 2: A. Vollard, Recollections of a Picture Dealer; 3: N. Lennon, Alfred Jarry: The Man with the Axe; 4: A. S. Huffington, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer
Jefferson, J., 1: T. Masson, The Best Stories in the World
Jefferson, T., 1, 3, 11: H. S. Randall, The Life of Thomas Jefferson, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 2, Edward Ellis, Thomas Jefferson, A Character Sketch, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 4–5, 10, 14: Sarah Randolph, The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 6: Arthur D. Graeff, “Anecdotes Related in Pennsylvania-German Almanacs,” The American-German Review VI (Apr. 1940), in B. Botkin, Treasury of American Anecdotes; 8: J. Train, True Remarkable Occurrences; 9, 12: M. B. Smith, The First Forty Years in Washington Society, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 13: C. Wiltse and H. Moser, eds., The Papers of Daniel Webster — Correspondence, vol. II
Jeffreys 1: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook
Jérôme 1: F. Loliée, Gilded Beauties of the Second Empire
Jerrold 1: T. Powell, The Living Authors of England, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 3: W. Adams, Treasury of Modern Anecdote
Jessel 1: A. Burrows, Honest, Abe
John XXIII 4: P. Bussard, The New Catholic Treasury of Wit and Humor; 5: H. Arendt, Men in Dark Times
John III Sobieski 1: D. George, A Book of Anecdotes
Johnson, A., 1: M. D. Conway, “The President’s Defense,” Fortnightly Review, V (1866), in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes
Johnson, L., 1: R. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson, I; 2: D. Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 3: “Washington Wags,” Reader’s Digest, Oct. 1959, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 5, 9–10: B. Dole: Great Political Wit; 7: B. Adler, ed., The Washington Wits, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 11: Larry L. King, “LBJ and Vietnam,” in A Sense of History
Johnson, N., 1–2: N. Johnson, Flashback
Johnson, S., 1, 3, 5, 11–12, 16–19, 21–22: J. Boswell, Life of Johnson; 2, 7, 10, 15, 23: C. Hibbert, The Personal History of Samuel Johnson; 4: H. Beste, Personal and Literary Memorials; 6: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 8: W. Seward, Anecdotes; 9: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook; 13: L. Russell, English Wits; 20: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote; 24–25: G. Brandreth, 871 Famous Last Words
Johnson, W., 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Jolson 1: C., Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury
Jones, James, 1, 3–4: W. Morris, James Jones: A Friendship, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 2: Bookof-the-Month Club News, Sept. 1951
Jones, John Paul, 1: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 2: DNB
Jonson 1: L. Lucaire, Celebrity Trivia; 2: J. Aubrey, Brief Lives
Jordan 1: C. Jones, What Makes Winners Win
Jowett 1: T. Masson, The Best Stories in the World; 2: G. F. Will, “Commencement at Duke,” The American Scholar, Autumn 1991
Joyce, James, 1: P. Mahony, Barbed Wit and Malicious Humor; 2:unpublished ms. by G. Russell, in R. Ellmann, James Joyce; 3: S. Huddleston, Paris Salons, Cafés, Studios; 4: R. Ellmann, interview with F. Budgen, in Ellmann, James Joyce; 6: H. Gorman Papers, in Ellmann, James Joyce; 7: R. Ellmann, interview with C. Giedion-Welcker, in Ellmann, James Joyce; 8: R. Ellmann, James Joyce; 9: R. Ellmann, interview with S. Beckett, in Ellmann, James Joyce
Joyce, John, 1: R. Ellmann, interview with S. Joyce, in Ellmann, James Joyce; 2: W. Wiser, The Crazy Years; 3: unpublished notes of L. Gillet in Ellmann, James Joyce
Juang-Zu 1: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Julia 1–4: Macrobius, Saturnalia
Julian 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, IV
Julius II 1: G. Vasari, Lives of the Painters
Jullien 1: Oxford Companion to Music; 2: H. Schonberg, The Great Conductors
Jusserand 1: W. R. Thayer, Theodore Roosevelt: An Intimate Portrait, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 2: Lewis Henry, Humorous Anecdotes About Famous People, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 3: Los Angeles Times Book Review, Sept. 9, 1984
Kahn 1: R. Marquard, Jokes and Anecdotes
Kallio 1: A. Ranjanen, Of Finnish Ways
Kames 1: John Ramsay of Ochtertyre, Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA
Kant 1: H. Margolius, Der Lächelnde Philosoph
Karl Alexander 1: W. Scholz, Das Buch des Lachens
Kaufman 1: O. Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar; 2: B. Cerf, Try and Stop Me; 4: M. Connelly, Voices Offstage; 5: D. Herrmann, With Malice Toward All; 7: J. Nash, Zanies; 8: J. Adamson, Groucho, Harpo, Chico; 9: D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 10, 13: R. Drennan, The Algonquin Wits; 11: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 12: C. Sifakis, Dictionary of Historic Nicknames; 14: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Kaunitz-Rietburg 1: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, X
Kazan 1: G. Herman, The Book of Hollywood Quotes
Keats 1–3: C. A. Brown, “Life of John Keats,” in H. E. Rollins, ed., The Keats Circle: Letters and Papers 1816–78
Kekulé Von Stradonitz 1: J. Daintith et al., Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists
Keller 1: A. Whitman, Come to Judgment
Kelly, G., 1: A. Lewis, Those Philadelphia Kellys
Kelly, M., 1: A. Bespaloff, The Fireside Book of Wine
Kelvin 1: S. Bolton, Famous Men of Science; 2: A. Fleming, Memories of a Scientific Life
Kemble, C., 1: J. Aye, Humour in the Theatre
Kemble, F., 1: Thomas B. Reed, ed., Modern Eloquence, X, in B. Botkin, Treasury of American Anecdotes
Kemble, J., 1: Thomas Moore’s Diary, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes; 2: J. Aye, Humour in the Theatre
Kemble, S., 1: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote
Kennedy, E., 1–2: B. Dole, Great Political Wit; 3: J. Germond, Blue Smoke and Mirrors
Kennedy, J. F., 1: G. Stebben and J. Morris, White House Confidential; 2, 11, 18: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 3: A. Whitman, Come to Judgment; 4–5: P. Collier and D. Horowitz, The Kennedys; 6: R. Shenkman and K. Reiger, One-Night Stands with American History; 7: I. Wallace et al., Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People; 8, 13, 17: B. Dole, Great Political Wit; 9: T. Wicker, One of Us: The Age of Richard Nixon 1946–1975; 10: Sir R. Bing, A Knight at the
Opera; 12: J. McAleer, “Globe Man’s Daily Story,” Boston Globe, Jan. 22, 1965; 13, 16: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac; 14: W. Manchester, One Brief Shining Moment; 15: C. Hitchens, “Booze and Fags,” review of V. G. Kiernan’s Tobacco: A History, London Review of Books, Mar. 12, 1922; 19: H. Sidey, John F. Kennedy, President; 20: E. Jones, A Food Lover’s Companion; 21: R. Martin, A Hero for Our Times; 22: H. Rainie and J. Quinn, Growing Up a Kennedy
Kennedy, Joseph 1: C. Amory, The Proper Bostonians, in B. Botkin, Treasury of American Anecdotes; 2: M. Gordon, Max Gordon Presents; 3: P. Collier and D. Horowitz, The Kennedys; 4: W. Manchester, One Brief Shining Moment; 5: N. Hamilton, JFK: Reckless Youth
Kennedy, R., 1–2: B. Dole, Great Political Wit; 3: F. Saunders, Torn Lace Curtain, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History
Kepler 1: I. Asimov, Biographical Encyclopedia
Keppel 1: G. Colman, Circle of Anecdote
Ker 1: J. Gere and J. Sparrow, Geoffrey Madan’s Notebooks; 2: J. MacCunn, Recollections of W. P. Ker by Two Friends
Kerouac 1: R. Nelson, The Almanac of American Letters; 2: D. Hall, “A Visit with Robert Giroux,” The New York Times Book Review, Jan. 1980, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA
Kerr, D., 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Kerr, J., 1: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 8, 1985
Keynes 1: C. Hession, John Maynard Keynes; 2: A. Cave Brown, The Last Hero
Khrushchev 1: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 2: B. Adler, My Favorite Funny Story; 3: K. P. O’Donnell and D. E. Powers, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye”; 4: K. Edwards, I Wish I’d Said That
Kidd 1: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Kiner 1: J. C. Humes, Speaker’s Treasury
Kinglake 1: J. Gere and J. Sparrow, Geoffrey Madan’s Notebooks
Kingsale 1: S. Winchester, Their Noble Lordships
Kipling 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Kissinger 1–2: R. Valeriani, Travels with Henry; 3–5: W. Isaacson, Kissinger in America: A Biography; 6: Los Angeles Times, Sept. 27, 1986
Kitchener 1: A. J. P. Taylor, English History
Kittredge 1: D. Hall, ed., OBALA
Klein 1: H. Prochnow, The Public Speaker’s Treasure Chest
Klemperer 3: H. Temianka, Facing the Music
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