Sullivan, 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Sumner 1: G. F. Hoar, The North American Review, Jan. 1878, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great
Susann 1–2, 5: I. Mansfield, Life with Jackie; 3–4: M. Korda, Another Life
Sutton; 1: J. McBride, High and Inside: The A-Z Guide to the Language of Baseball; 2–3: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes
Suvorov 1: Harper’s Magazine, Feb. 1852, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great
Svyatopolk 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, IV
Swedenborg 1: C. Fox, Journal, June 6, 1842, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes
Swift 1: T. Sheridan, The Life of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 3–4: G. Colman, Circle of Anecdote; 5–6: H. Pearson, Lives of the Wits
Swinburne 1: O. Sitwell, Noble Essences
Szilard 1: F. Crick, Life Itself
Taft, L., 1: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook
Taft, W., 3: Lewis Henry, Humorous Anecdotes About Famous People, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 4–7: B. Dole, Great Political Wit
Talleyrand-Périgord 1, 5: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 2: J. C. Humes, Speaker’s Treasury; 3: M. Pedrazzini and J. Gris, Autant en apportent les mots; 4: Oxfam, Pass the Port; 6: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote; 7, 11: C. Brinton, The Lives of Talleyrand; 8: A. Duff Cooper, Talleyrand; 9: K. Edwards, I Wish I’d Said That; 12: F. Mitterand, The Wheat and the Chaff
Talmadge 1: R. Webb and T. Carle, The Laughs on Hollywood
Tamagno 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Tarantino 1: M. Wiley and D. Bona, Inside Oscar
Taylor, E., 1: K. Kelley, Elizabeth Taylor: The Last Star
Taylor, J., 1: Boswelliana, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes
Tecumseh 1: A. W. Dunn, From Harrison to McKinley, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes
Telford 1: E. Lucas, A Fronded Isle
Temple 1: Oxfam, Pass the Port
Teng Shih 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, I
Tennyson 1, 3: W. R. Nicoll and T. J. Wise, eds., Literary Anecdotes of the Nineteenth Century, in R. Martin, Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart; 2: G. W. Smalley, Studies of Man, in Martin, Tennyson; 4: Sir C. Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 5: The Gladstone Papers, in Martin, Tennyson; 6: J. Train, True Remarkable Occurrences; 8: Martin, Tennyson; 9: Leon Edel, Henry James: The Conquest of London 1870–1881, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 10: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Teresa of Ávila 1: P. Bussard, The New Catholic Treasury of Wit and Humor
Terry 1: D. Gill, The Book of the Piano; 2: The Times (London), June 12, 1982
Tetrazzini 1: C. Gattey, The Elephant That Swallowed a Nightingale
Thackeray 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: P. Porzelt, The Metropolitan Club of New York; 3: H. Prochnow, The Public Speaker’s Treasury
Thalberg 1: J. Adamson, Groucho, Harpo, Chico; 2: B. Thomas, Thalberg: Life and Legend
Thales 1–2: EB; 3: Plato, Theaetetus; 4: Plutarch, Lives; 5: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, II
Themistocles 1: Plutarch, Lives; 2: R. Marquard, Jokes and Anecdotes
Theodoric 1: E. Guérard, Dictionnaire Encyclopédique
Thiers 1: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote
Thomas, D., 1: A. Bespaloff, The Fireside Book of Wine; 2: D. Hall, Remembering Poets; 3: A. Sinclair, Dylan Thomas
Thomas, M. C., 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Thomas, N., 1–3: A. Whitman, Come to Judgment
Thompson 1: M. Wiley and D. Bona, Inside Oscar
Thomson, Sir G., 1: J. Daintith et al., Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists
Thomson, J., 1: J. Dunbar, J. M. Barrie
Thoreau 1, 7: M. Saxton, Louisa May; 2: H. Thoreau, Journal, Oct. 27, 1853; 3: Thoreau, Journal, Sept. 8, 1859; 4: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 5: article by Ralph Waldo Emerson in The Atlantic Monthly, 1862, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 6: E. Chubb, Sketches of Great Painters
Thurber 1,10: C. Holmes, The Clocks of Columbus; 2: B. Cerf, Good for a Laugh; 4: B. Bernstein, Thurber, A Biography; 5: N. Johnson, letter to Groucho Marx; 7: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 8: M. Rosen, ed., Collecting Himself
Thurlow 1, 4: W. Adams, Treasury of Modern Anecdote; 2–3: L. Missen, After-Dinner Stories and Anecdotes
Tintoretto 1: H. Morton, A Traveller in Italy
Titian 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac
Tolstoy 1: John Hersey, Antonietta; 2: “Daily Mirror” Old Codger’s Little Black Book 4
Tooke 1: K. Arvine, Cyclopaedia of Anecdotes; 2: Lord Broughton, Recollections of a Long Life, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ
Toscanini 1: L. Humphrey, The Humor of Music; 2: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 4: BBC Radio (Desert Island Discs, Mar. 5, 1982); 5: H. Taubman, The Maestro; 6–8: H. Taubman, Music on My Beat; 9: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook
Toulouse-Lautrec 1: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Townshend 1: Sir J. Prior, Life of Edmond Malone … in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA
Tracy 1: R. Byrne, The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said; 3: People, July 1978
Travers 1: A. Leslie, The Remarkable Mr. Jerome
Travolta 1–2: M. Wiley and D. Bona, Inside Oscar
Tree 1: H. Teichmann, Smart Aleck; 3: K. Brownlow, Hollywood: The Pioneers; 4: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 5, 7: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook; 6: J. Aye, Humour in the Theatre
Trench 1–2: L. Missen, Quotable Anecdotes
Trilling 1: W. Espy, Another Almanac of Words at Play
Trollope, A., 1–2, 4: M. Sadleir, Trollope: A Commentary; 3: A. Trollope, Autobiography
Trollope, F., 1: Outlook, July 21, 1923
Trotsky 1: G. Mikes, Coffee Houses of Europe
Troy 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac
Truman 1, 9: D. McCullough, Truman; 3: J. Lash, Eleanor and Franklin; 4: F. Muir, Irreverent Social History; 5: J. B. West, Upstairs at the White House, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 6: “Free to Choose,” The New Republic, Mar. 22, 1980, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 7: M. Miller, Plain Speaking, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 10: W. Zinsser, ed., Extraordinary Lives: The Art and Craft of American Biography; 11: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 14, 1983
Truth 1: P. Smith, Trial by Fire
Turner 1: G. Painter, Proust: The Early Years; 2: W. P. Frith, My Autobiography and Reminiscences; 3–4: E. Chubb, Sketches of Great Painters; 5–6: D. Piper, Painting in England; 7: P. Johnson, The Birth of the Modern
Twain 1, 3, 7, 10, 21: A. Paine, Mark Twain; 2: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 4: B. Cerf, Try and Stop Me; 5: B. Cerf, Shake Well Before Using; 6: L. and F. Copeland, 10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories; 8, 12, 14–15, 19: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 9, 23: J. Kaplan, Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain; 11: C. Clemens, My Father Mark Twain; 13: S. Weintraub, The London Yankees, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 16: D. Wallechinsky and I. and A. Wallace, The Book of Lists; 17: H. Prochnow, Public Speaker’s Treasure Chest; 18: J. Nash, Zanies; 22: D. W. McCullough, ed., American Childhoods
Tyler 1: J. Sternberg, ed., The Writer on Her Work
Tyson 1: Los Angeles Times, June 26, 1988
Uccello 1: T. Craven, Men of Art
Untermeyer 1: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 2: S. Harris, Pieces of Eight
Unzelmann 1: W. Durant, The Story of Philosophy
Urban VII 1: D. Boorstin, The Creators
Ustinov 1: H. Vickers, Great Operatic Disasters
Van Buren 1: H. Alexander, The American Talleyrand: The Career and Contemporaries of Martin Van Buren, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes
Vanderbilt, A., 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac
Vanderbilt, C., 1, 3: S. Holbrook, The Age of the Moguls; 2: A. May, Different Drummers
Vanderbilt,
W., 1: F. Crowninshield, “The House of Vanderbilt,” in Vogue’s First Reader, in B. Botkin, Treasury of American Anecdotes; 2: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 3: B. Conrad, Famous Last Words
Van Doren 1: B. Cerf, Shake Well Before Using; 2: J. C. Humes, Speaker’s Treasury
Van Slyke 1: B. Shlain, Baseball Inside Out
Varah 1: C. Varah, Samaritans in the 70s
Vatel 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac
Veeck 1: J. McBride, High and Inside: The A-Z Guide to the Language of Baseball
Vega Carpio 1: R. Byrne, The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Verdi 1: V. Seligman, Puccini Among Friends; 2: N. Slonimsky, A Thing or Two About Music
Verlaine 1: J. Bayard, The Latin Quarter Past and Present
Verrall 1: E. Marsh, A Number of People
Vesey 1: DNB
Vespasian 1, 3: Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars; 2: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, III
Victor Amadeus II 1: J. Papesch, Europa Lächelt Noch Immer
Victoria 1, 5: J. Adair, The Royal Palaces of Great Britain; 2, 7: H. and D. L. Thomas, Living Biographies of Famous Rulers; 3, 6: D. Cecil, Melbourne; 4: Lord Gower, Records and Reminiscences, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 8: J. Paar, P.S. Jack Paar; 9: A. R. Mills, Two Victorian Ladies, in A. Hardy, Queen Victoria Was Amused; 10: Frederick Ponsonby, Recollections of Three Reigns, in Hardy, Queen Victoria; 11: B. Cerf, The Life of the Party; 12: V. Cowles, The Kaiser; 13: J. Bone, The London Perambulator; 14: A. H. Bevan, Popular Royalty, in Hardy, Queen Victoria; 15–16: E. Longford, The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes; 17: S. Weintraub, Victoria; 18: P. Ziegler, Diana Cooper
Vidal 1: A. Powell, The Strangers Are All Gone
Villa 1: R. Byrne, The 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
Villiers De L’Isle Adam 1: J. Bayard, The Latin Quarter Past and Present
Virchow 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: R. Calder, Medicine and Man
Voltaire 1: J. Papesch, Europa Lächelt Noch Immer; 2: L. Russell, English Wits; 3: N. Mitford, Voltaire in Love; 4, 10: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 5–6: B. Cerf, Try and Stop Me; 7: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, IX; 8: W. Scholz, Das Buch des Lachens; 9: E. Kelen, Peace in Their Time; 11: W. Ukers, All About Coffee; 12: W. Durant, The Story of Philosophy; 13, 15: Dugas de Bois St. Just, Paris, Versailles et les provinces; 14: W. O’Flaherty, Other People’s Myths; 16: H. and D. L. Thomas, Living Biographies of the Great Philosophers
Waddell 1: B. Cerf, Bumper Crop of Anecdotes
Walker 1: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury
Waller 1: L. Missen, Quotable Anecdotes
Waln 1: I. and R. Poley, Friendly Anecdotes
Walpole, H., 1: R. Ketton-Cremer, Horace Walpole
Walpole, Sir R., 1: Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Apr. 1868, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 2: K. C. Balderston, ed., Thraliana
Walter 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Walton 1: O. Sitwell, Laughter in the Next Room; 2: The Observer, Feb. 7, 1982
Warburton 1: J. Bartlett, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations
Ward 1: The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, in B. Botkin, Treasury of American Anecdotes; 2: J. Kaplan, Mark Twain and His World
Warner 1: L. Cannon, Reagan; 2: D. Niven, Bring On the Empty Horses
Washington 1: M. Weems, Life of Washington; 2: W. Gordon, History of the Independence of the United States, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 3: P. Hood, World of Anecdote; 4: P. Smith, A New Age Now Begins; 5: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 6: Paul Wilstach, Patriots off Their Pedestals, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 7: F. Hunt, American Anecdotes, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 8: B. Botkin, Treasury of American Anecdotes; 9: F. R. Bellamy, The Private Life of George Washington, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes; 10: P. L. Ford, The True George Washington, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes
Waterton 1: E. Sitwell, English Eccentrics
Watson 1: L. Missen, After-Dinner Stories and Anecdotes
Watt 1: W. and A. Durant, The Story of Civilization, X
Waugh 1: H. Acton, More Memoirs of an Aesthete; 2: R. Claiborne, Our Marvelous Native Tongue; 4: J. Epstein, “Evelyn Waugh,” New Criterion, 3, Apr. 1985; 5: J. Epstein, “Merely Anecdotal,” in The American Scholar, spring 1992; 6: J. Bryan, III, ed., Hodgpodge: A Commonplace Book
Wavell 1: B. Fergusson, Wavell
Wayne, J. 1–2: P. Hay, ed., Movie Anecdotes
Weaver 1–3: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes
Webb 1: L. Missen, Quotable Anecdotes
Webster, D. 1–2: C. Lanman, The Private Life of Daniel Webster; 3: B. Botkin, Treasury of American Anecdotes; 4: Charles Lanman, The Private Life of Daniel Webster, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 5: Oxford Dictionary of Quotations; 6, 10: P. Harvey, Reminiscences of Daniel Webster; 7, 9: C. Fuess, Daniel Webster; 8: V. Brooks, Life of Emerson; 10: Richard Lathers, Reminiscences, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great
Webster, N., 1: R. Marquard, Jokes and Anecdotes; 2: J. S. Morgan, Noah Webster, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA
Weizmann 1: R. St. John, They Came from Everywhere
Welles 1–2: P. Boller, ed., Hollywood Anecdotes; 3: M. Korda, Charmed Lives
Wellington 1: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 2: Records of the Conference Between Wellington and Scindiak after the Battle of Assaye, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes; 3, 5: A. Bryant, The Age of Elegance; 4, 10–11: N. McPhee, Second Book of Insults; 6: George, Anecdotes; 7: D. Duff, Albert and Victoria; 8: J. Keegan, The Masks of Command; 9: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz; 12: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 13, 17: W. Fraser, Words of Wellington, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 14: The New Yorker, Mar. 10, 1951; 16: M. Garland, The Changing Face of Childhood
Wells 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: H. Nicolson, Diaries; 3: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?; 4: C. Snow, Variety of Men
Werfel 1: I. Wallace et al., Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
Wesley 1: H. and D. L. Thomas, Living Biographies of Religious Leaders; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
West 1: K. Edwards, I Wish I’d Said That Too; 2–3: G. Herman, The Book of Hollywood Quotes; 4: G. Vlastos, Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher
Westinghouse 1: W. Walsh, Handy Book of Curious Information
Wharton 1: E. Wharton, A Backward Glance; 2: P. Lubbock, Portrait of Edith Wharton, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA
Wheeler 1: P. Smith, The Rise of Industrial America
Whewell 1: L. Missen, Quotable Anecdotes; 2: W. Keddie, Literary and Scientific Anecdote
Whistler 1–2: L. Russell, English Wits; 3: K. Edwards, I Wish I’d Said That Too; 4, 7–8, 12–13, 17: D. Seitz, Whistler Stories; 5: B. Cerf, The Life of the Party; 6: P. Mahony, Barbed Wit and Malicious Humor; 9: L. and F. Copeland, 10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories; 10: H. Pearson, The Man Whistler; 11: H. Gerwig, Fifty Famous Painters; 14: J. Whistler, On the Gentle Art of Making Enemies; 15: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook; 16: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Whitman 1: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury
Whitney 1: P. Smith, The Nation Comes of Age
Wieniawski 1: N. Slonimsky, A Thing or Two About Music
Wild 1: H. Bagust, London Through the Ages
Wilde 1: Miss J. Hawkins, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 2: H. Pearson, The Life of Oscar Wilde, in Sutherland, OBLA; 3, 10, 14: H. Pearson, Lives of the Wits; 4: R. Ellmann, Oscar Wilde; 5: Sir W. Rothenstein, Men and Memories, in Sutherland, OBLA; 6: R. Marquard, Jokes and Anecdotes; 7: B. Cerf, Shake Well Before Using; 8: J. Bartlett, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations; 9: Walter Jerrold, A Book of Famous Wits, in Sutherland, OBLA; 11: G. Brandreth, Great Theatrical Disasters; 12: G. Mikes, Laughing Matter; 13: A. Hare, The Story of My Life; 15: N. McPhee, Book of Insults; 17: W Yeats, Autobiographies; 18: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac; 19: Time, Jan. 16, 1984
Wilder 3: T. Wood, The Bright Side of Billy Wilder, Primarily
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Wilkes 1: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 2: R. Postgate, That Devil Wilkes; 3: P. Stockdale, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of P. Stockdale
Willes 1: Lord Campbell, Lives of the Chief Justices, in D. George, A Book of Anecdotes
William I (England) 1: DNB
William I (Prussia) 1: W. Scholz, Das Buch des Lachens; 2: F. Syben, Preussiche Anekdoten
William II (Germany) 1: E. Benson, The Kaiser and English Relations
William III (England) 1: J. H. Jesse, England Under the House of Hanover, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great
Williams, Ted, 1–3: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes; 4: R. B. Cramer, “What Do You Think of Ted Williams Now?” Esquire, June 1986
Williams, Tennessee, 1: J. Rosner, A Hater’s Handbook; 2: D. Spoto, The Kindness of Strangers
Wills, M. 1–2: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes
Wilson, C., 1: P. Smith, The Rise of Industrial America
Wilson, E., 1: A. Whitman, Come to Judgment
Wilson, Sir H., 2: BBC Radio 4, Oct. 23, 1984
Wilson, H., 1: Harriette Wilson’s Memoirs of Herself and Others, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA
Wilson, R., 1: D. Piper, Painting in England
Wilson, W., 1: J. C. Humes, Speaker’s Treasury; 2: B. Adler, ed., Presidential Wit from Washington to Johnson, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 4–5: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Winters 1: Los Angeles Times, Mar. 24, 1984
Wittgenstein 1: F. McLynn, “An Unintegrated Ego,” review of R. Monk, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, Literary Review, Nov. 1990
Wodehouse 1: F. Donaldson, Freddy Lonsdale; 2: F. Donaldson, P. G. Wodehouse; 3: B. Nichols, The Sweet Twenties
Wolf 1: P. Mahony, Barbed Wit and Malicious Humor
Wolfe, J., 1: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better
Wolfe, T., 1–2: A. Turnbull, Thomas Wolfe: A Biography, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA
Woollcott 2: J. Nash, The Innovators; 3: I. Mansfield, Life with Jackie; 4: M. Hart, Act One; 5: O. Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar; 6: H. Teichmann, Smart Aleck; 7: J. Braude, Braude’s Second Encyclopedia; 8: J. McAleer, “Globe Man’s Daily Story,” Boston Globe, Dec. 16, 1962; 9: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?; 10: H. Teichmann, Smart Aleck, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA
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