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Mingus 1: B. Crow, Jazz Anecdotes
Mirabeau 1: J. S. Smith, Mirabeau, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 2: W. Sholz, Das Buch des Lachens; 3: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 4: J. C. Humes, Speaker’s Treasury
Mitchell 1: Richard Harwell, ed., Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone with the Wind” Letters, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 2: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Mitford, N. 1: O. Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar
Mizner, A., 1: The New Yorker, Nov. 22, 1952
Mizner, W., 1: D. Herrmann, With Malice Toward All; 2–3, 7: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac; 4: The New Yorker, July 29, 1950; 5: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 6: The New Yorker, Nov. 22, 1952
Modigliani 1: M. Georges-Michel, From Renoir to Picasso
Molière 1: W. Walsh, Handy Book of Curious Information
Molnár 1: B. Cerf, Try and Stop Me; 2: The New Yorker, May 25, 1946; 3: L. Farago, Strictly from Hungary
Monet 1: D. Boorstin, The Creators
Monroe 1: Los Angeles Times, May 3, 1984; 2–4: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women; 5: G. Brandreth, 871 Famous Last Words; 7: P. Boller, ed., Hollywood Anecdotes
Montagu 1: J. Spence, Anecdotes; 2: F. Muir, Irreverent Social History
Montague 1: J. Gere and J. Sparrow, Geoffrey Madan’s Notebooks
Montcalm 1: F. Parkman, Montcalm and Wolfe, in D. Boorstin, The Creators
Montecuccoli 1: S. and R. Percy, The Percy Anecdotes
Montefiore 1: W. Novak and M. Waldoks, The Big Book of Jewish Humor
Monteux 1: A. Previn, ed., Orchestra; 2: C. O’Connell, The Other Side of the Record
Montgomery, B., 1: A. Herbert, A.P.H.; 2: R. Collier, The Freedom Road; 4: J. Gunther, Procession
Montgomery, J. 1: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote
Montmorency 1: M. Strauss, Familiar Medical Quotations
Moore, George, 1: O. St. John Gogarty, As I Was Walking Down Sackville Street, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ; 2:letter from W. B. Yeats to Lady Gregory, May 1901, in DBQ; 3: D. Fielding, Those Remarkable Cunards
Moore, M., 1: D. Hall, ed., OBALA
More, H., 1: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote
More, Sir T., 1: W. Roper, Life of Sir Thomas More; 2: J. Aubrey, Brief Lives; 3: W. Winstanley, England’s Worthies
Morel 1: M. Bishop, A Gallery of Eccentrics
Morgan, J. P. Sr., 1, 4: C. Tomkins, Merchants and Masterpieces; 3: J. Carroll, Prince of Peace; 5–7: E. Wagenknecht, American Profile; 8: J. L. Gardner, Departing Glory: Theodore Roosevelt as Ex-President, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes
Morgan, J. P. Jr., 1: B. Cerf, Laughing Stock; 2: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenshatz
Morley, C., 1: C. Fadiman, Any Number Can Play
Morley, R., 1: R. Morley, Book of Bricks
Morris, C., 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Morris, W., 1: L. and F. Copeland, 10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories
Morse 1: P. Smith, The Nation Comes of Age; 2: H. Prochnow, The Public Speaker’s Treasure Chest
Moscardó 1: C. Eby, The Siege of the Alcazar
Mott 1: I. and R. Poley, Friendly Anecdotes
Mountbatten 1: P. Ziegler, Mountbatten
Mozart 1: O. Sacks, New York Review of Books, Feb. 28, 1985; 2: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, X; 3: N. McPhee, Second Book of Insults; 4: E. Van de Velde, Anecdotes Musicales; 5–8: N. Lebrecht, The Book of Musical Anecdotes
Muggeridge 1: J. Paar, P.S. Jack Paar
Mugnier 1–2: C. Skinner, Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals
Muhammad Shah I 1: E. Canetti, Crowds and Power
Muir 1: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury
Muraviev 1: E. Crankshaw, The Shadow of the Winter Palace
Murray, Sir George, 1: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote
Murray, Gilbert, 1: C. Bowra, Memories 1898–1939; 2: R. Graves, Goodbye to All That
Musial 1: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes
Musset 1: M. Pedrazzini and J. Gris, Autant en apportent les mots
Mytton 1: C. Fadiman, Any Number Can Play
Nabokov 1: New York Times Book Review, Aug. 23, 1981; 2: J. Orgel, Undying Passion; 3: V. Nabokov, Strong Opinions; 4: Joseph Epstein, “Toys in My Attic,” The American Scholar, winter, 1992
Nagurski 3: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 7, 1985
Namath 1: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 20, 1983
Napier 1: I. Asimov, Treasury of Humor
Napoleon I 1, 8: C. Barnett, Bonaparte; 2–4, 9: V. Cronin, Napoleon Bonaparte; 5–6: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, XI; 7: L. and F. Copeland, 10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories; 10: D. Duff, Eugénie and Napoleon III; 11: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenshatz; 12: A. Castelot, Paris: The Turbulent City; 13: R. Chelmiaski, The French at Table; 14: A. Duff Cooper, Talleyrand
Napoleon III 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz; 2: D. Duff, Eugénie and Napoleon III; 3: E. Crankshaw, The Fall of the House of Hapsburg
Napoleon, E., 1: D. Duff, Eugénie and Napoleon III
Napoleon, J., 1: F. Loliée, Gilded Beauties of the Second Empire
Narváez 1: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Nast 1: American Scholar X (1941)
Navratilova 1–2: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Necker 1: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote
Nelson 1: A. Lincoln and R. McEwan, eds., Lord Eldon’s Anecdote Book; 2–3, 5–7: R. Southey, Life of Nelson; 4: DNB
Nero 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, III; 2, 4–5: Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars; 4: D. Boorstin, The Creators
Nerval 1–2: G. Wagner, Selected Writing of Gérard de Nerval
Newman, P. 1: P. Hay, ed., Movie Anecdotes
Newton 1, 10: DNB; 2: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 3, 7: E. Bell, Men of Mathematics; 4: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote; 5: I. Asimov, Biographical Encyclopedia; 6: S. Waterlow, In Praise of Cambridge; 8: T. Moore, Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence; 9: L. C. Thurow, The Zero-Sum Society
Nicholas I 1: E. Guérard, Dictionnaire Encyclopédique
Nicholson 1: P. Hay, ed., Movie Anecdotes
Nijinsky 1: R. Buckle, Nijinsky
Nilsson 1–2: W. Sargeant, Divas; 3: Sir R. Bing, A Knight at the Opera
Niven 1: F. Worth, Complete Unabridged Super Trivia Encyclopedia; 2: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 8, 1983
Nivernais 1: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook
Nixon, R. 1: E. Mayo and S. Hess, President Nixon: A Political Portrait, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 4: C. Daniel, Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen; 5: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac; 6: Bill Adler, The Washington Wits, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 7, 9: A. Wallace et al., The Book of Lists 3; 10: D. Frost, “I Gave Them a Sword”; 11: W. Isaacson, Kissinger in America: A Biography
Norbury 1: W. Adams, Treasury of Modern Anecdote; 2: A. Lincoln and R. McEwan, eds., Lord Eldon’s Anecdote Book; 3: DNB
North 1: Lord Broughton, Recollections of a Long Life; 2–3: A. Lincoln and R. McEwan, eds., Lord Eldon’s Anecdote Book; 4: W. Adams, Treasury of Modern Anecdote
Northcote 1: K. Arvine, Cyclopaedia of Anecdotes
Noyes 1: M. Bishop, The Exotics
Nurmi 1: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 12, 1983
Oates 1: DNB
Offenbach 1: S. Beach, Musicdotes
O’Hara, F., 1: M. Perloff, Frank O’Hara: A Critical Introduction, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA
O’Hara, J., 1: M. J. Bruccoli, The O’Hara Concern, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 2: B. Gill, Here at The New Yorker; 3: J. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations; 4: B. Cerf, At Random, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA
Oldfield 1: T. Davies, Dramatic Miscellanies
Olivier 1: J. Lasky, Love Scene; 2: J. McAleer, “Globe Man’s Daily Story,” Boston Globe, Jan. 1, 1963; 3: P. Boller, ed., Hollywood Anecdotes
/> ‘Omar 1: W. Walsh, Handy Book of Curious Information
Onassis, A., 1: F. Brady, Onassis
Onassis, J., 1: W. R. Thayer, Jacqueline Kennedy, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History; 2: L. David, The Lonely Lady of San Clemente: The Story of Pat Nixon, in Boller, Presidential Wives; 3: M. B. Gallagher, My Life, in Boller, Presidential Wives; 4: R. G. Martin, A Hero for Our Time, in Boller, Presidential Wives; 5: R. Harding and A. L. Holmes, Jacqueline Kennedy, in Boller, Presidential Wives; 6: G. Hall and A. Pinchot, Jacqueline Kennedy: A Biography, in Boller, Presidential Wives; 7: Gallagher, My Life, in Boller, Presidential Wives; 8: K. P. O’Donnell and D. F. Powers, “Johnny, We Hardley Knew Ye,” in Boller, Presidential Wives; 9: Martin, A Hero for Our Times, in Boller, Presidential Wives; 10: “Confessions of a Public Son,” Time, Jan. 20, 1986, in Boller, Presidential Wives
O’Neill 1: The New Yorker, Feb. 28, 1948; 2: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 3: C. Bowen, The Curse of the Misbegotten: A Tale of the House of O’Neill, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 4: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Oppenheimer 2: A. Whitman, Come to Judgment
Orsay 1: C. Roberts, And So to Bath; 2: W. Adams, Treasury of Modern Anecdote
Oscar II 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenshatz
O’Toole 1: G. Talese, Fame and Obscurity; 2: P. Boller, ed., Hollywood Anecdotes
Otto 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenshatz
Ouida 1: W. Abbot, Notable Women in History
Owen 1: J. Sanford, Winters of That Country
Pachmann 1–3: H. Schonberg, The Great Pianists
Packer 1: B. A. Botkin, A Treasury of American Anecdotes
Paderewski 1, 3: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: H. Schonberg, The Great Pianists; 4–5: A. Zamoyski, Paderewski
Paige 1: Los Angeles Times, June 12, 1982; 2: A. and B. Silverman, eds., The Twentieth-Century Treasury of Sports
Paine 1: A. O. Sherman, address before the Huguenot Society of America, New Rochelle, N.Y., July 1910, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 2, 4: H. Pearson, Tom Paine: Friend of Mankind, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA, and D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 3: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Paley 1: W. Adams, Treasury of Modern Anecdote
Palmerston 1: R. B. Brett, The Yoke of Empire, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 2: Arthur Ponsonby, Henry Ponsonby: His Life and Letters, in A. Hardy, Queen Victoria Was Amused; 4: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Paquin 1: M. Wiley and D. Bona, Inside Oscar
Park 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Parker, D., 1, 16: O. Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 4, 15: R. Drennan, Wit’s End; 5: B. Cerf, Try and Stop Me; 6: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac; 7–8: D. Herrmann, With Malice Toward All; 9, 16: John Keats, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 10–11, 13: R. Drennan, The Algonquin Wits; 12: B. Thomas, Thalberg: Life and Legend; 14: L. Hellman, An Unfinished Woman
Parker, H., 1: L. Humphrey, The Humor of Music
Parker, Q., 1: J. C. Humes, Speaker’s Treasury
Parr 1: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 2: DNB; 3: J. Timbs, English Eccentrics
Parrish 1: J. C. Humes, Speaker’s Treasury
Partridge 1: DNB; 2: W. Walsh, Handy Book of Curious Information
Pascal 1: I. Asimov, Biographical Encyclopedia
Pater 1: S. Behrman, Portrait of Max
Patti 1: C. Gattey, The Elephant That Swallowed a Nightingale
Patton 1–2: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 3: Ed Hinton, The Last Ride of A. J. Foyt
Peale 1: R. Morley, Pardon Me, But You’re Eating My Doily
Peard 1: Country Life, May 20, 1982
Peck 1: S. Harris, Pieces of Eight
Peckinpah 1: P. Hay, ed., Movie Anecdotes
Pembroke 1: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote
Penick 1: R. T. Sommers, Golf Anecdotes
Perelman 1: W. Espy, Another Almanac of Words at Play
Pericles 1: Plutarch, Lives
Perlman 1: M. Wallace and G. Gates, Close Encounters
Perón 1: I. Wallace et al., Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
Perot 1: D. Frost, Book of Millionaires
Perry 1: J. Bartlett, Battlett’s Familiar Quotations
Perugino 1: G. Vasari, Lives of the Painters
Pétain 1: P. Méras, The Mermaids of Chenonceaux; 2: P. Frederick, Ten First Ladies of the World
Peter I 1: R. Massie, Peter the Great; 2: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote
Peterborough 1: DNB
Petronius 1: F. Seymour Smith, A Treasury of Wit and Wisdom
Phelps 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Philip, J., 1: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury
Philip, Prince, 3: L. Lucaire, Celebrity Trivia; 4: N. McPhee, Second Book of Insults; 6: E. Longford, The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes
Philip II 1: Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia; 2: I. Asimov, Treasury of Humor; 3: E. Guérard, Dictionnaire Encyclopédique
Philip III 1: B. Tuchman, The March of Folly
Philip V 1: V. Cronin, Louis XIV
Phillips 1–2: B. Botkin, Treasury of Modern Anecdotes
Piatigorsky 1: H. Temianka, Facing the Music
Picabia 1: M. Georges-Michel, From Renoir to Picasso
Picasso 1: F. Gilot and C. Lake, Life with Picasso; 2, 7: A. Whitman, Come to Judgment; 3: E. Burns, ed., Gertrude Stein on Picasso, in J. Mellow, Charmed Circle; 4: J. Mellow, Charmed Circle; 5, 14, 17–18: R. Penrose, Picasso; 6: B. Adler, My Favorite Funny Story; 12: B. Cerf, Bumper Crop of Anecdotes; 13: F. Weiskopf, Gesammelte Werke; 15: A. Lanoux, Paris in the Twenties; 16: D. Duncan, Picasso’s Picasso; 18: A. S. Huffington, Picasso: Creator and Destroyer; 19: J. Weld, Peggy: The Wayward Guggenheim
Pinter 1: J. Epstein, “Merely Anecdotal,” The American Scholar, spring 1992
Pitt 1: Lord Stanhope, Conversations with Lord Wellington, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 2: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenshatz; 3: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, XI; 4: Stanhope’s Life of the Rt. Hon. William Pitt, in Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Plath 1: D. Hall, ed., OBALA
Plato 1–2: I. Asimov, Treasury of Humor; 3: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Pliny 1: Pliny, Letters
Plotinus 1: E. Monegal and A. Reid, Borges: A Reader
Poe 1: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life
Poggio 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, V
Polk 1: B. Dole, Great Political Wit
Pompadour 1: N. Mitford, Madame de Pompadour; 3: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Pope, Alexander, 1, 4: J. Spence, Anecdotes; 2–3: S. Johnson, Lives of the English Poets
Pope, Arthur, 1: J. Howard, Margaret Mead
Porson 1–2: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote; 3: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 4–5: L. Missen, Quotable Anecdotes; 6: E. Barker, Literary Recollections
Poussin 1: Quarterly Review, no. 218, 1861, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes
Previn 1: R. Morley, Book of Bricks; 2: R. Morley, Second Book of Bricks
Pringle 1: W. Walsh, Handy Book of Curious Information
Prokofiev 1: Book-of-the-Month Club News, Feb. 1940
Puccini 1: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Pulitzer 1: P. Brendon, The Life and Death of the Press Barons
Pushkin 1: C. Fadiman, foreword to N. Gogol, Chichikov’s Journeys
Putnam 1: B. Botkin, Treasury of American Anecdote
Pyle 1: ’47, The Magazine of the Year
Pyrrhus 1: Plutarch, Lives
Pythagoras 1: Diogenes Laertius, Eminent Philosophers, vol. 8
Quayle 1: J. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations; 2: B. Bryson, The Mother Tongue
Queensberry 1: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 2: W. Walsh, Handy Book of Curious Information
Quesnay 1: W. and A.
Durant, The Story of Civilization, X
Quin 1: DNB
Quisenberry 1–2: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes
Rabelais 1: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 2: F. Winslow, Physic and Physicians, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes
Rabi 1: P. Wyden, Day One
Rachel 1–3: J. Agate, Rachel; 4–5: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Rachmaninoff 1: A. Rubinstein, My Many Years; 2: H. Schonberg, The Great Pianists
Racine 1: E. Guérard, Dictionnaire Encyclopédique
Raft 1: Santa Barbara News Press, Nov. 25, 1980
Raglan 1: DNB
Raleigh 1–2: T. Fuller, ed., Worthies of England; 3: W. Walsh, Handy Book of Curious Information; 4–5: J. Aubrey, Brief Lives; 6: J. A. St. John, Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, in D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac 2; 7: I. A. Taylor, Sir Walter Raleigh, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 8: DNB
Ramanujan 1: C. Fadiman, Any Number Can Play
Ramsey 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Raphael 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Rather 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Raynal 1: J. Larwood, Anecdotes of the Clergy
Reagan, N., 1: “The World of Nancy Reagan,” Newsweek, Dec. 21, 1981, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Wives: An Anecdotal History; 2–3: Bill Adler, Ronnie and Nancy: A Very Special Relationship, in Boller, Presidential Wives; 4: “People,” Time, Oct. 20, 1986, in Boller, Presidential Wives; 5: Laurence Leamer, Make-Believe: The Story of Nancy and Ronald Reagan, in Boller, Presidential Wives
Reagan, R., 1: R. Morley, Pardon Me, But You’re Eating My Doily; 2: B. Adler and B. Adler, Jr., The Reagan Wit; 3, 7: P. Hay, ed., Movie Anecdotes; 4–5, 10, 14–17, 19–21, 23: B. Dole, Great Political Wit; 6: L. Cannon, President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime; 8: D. Halberstam, The Next Century; 9: “Reagan out of Surgery,” Fort Worth Star Telegram, Mar. 31, 1981; 11: D. McClellan, Ear on Washington; 12: J. Train, Wit: The Best Things Ever Said; 13: Los Angeles Times, Apr. 7, 1984; 22: J. Trelown, “Moscow Notes,” Times Literary Supplement, Mar. 2–8, 1990
Redgrave 1: M. Bragg, Richard Burton
Reed 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: McClure’s Magazine, June 1911, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great
Reger 1: N. Slonimsky, A Thing or Two About Music; 2: N. Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective