"Nice Guys Finish Seventh": False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations

by Ralph Keyes

Book Overview

Many of our best known quotes are inaccurate, misattributed, or both. In this surprising and delightfully entertaining compendium of famous quotes, we learn the truth about where they came from.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062700200
• ISBN13: 9780062700209
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

If only I had bought this sooner ....

Prior to making a technical presentation in China, I asked my translator to quickly write 'One picture is worth a thousand words' on one of the transparencies. He was not aware of this ancient Chinese proverb. It was only on my return to the US that I found this book and "The Rules of Misquotation - Corollary 2F: In a pinch, any orphan quote can be called a Chinese proverb". Frederick Barnard did so in 1927 ...