by Mardy Grothe
McCarthy, Eugene, 268
McCarthy, Mary, 53, 150–51
McCord, David, 131
McEnroe, John, 284
McFee, William, 151
McGaha, Kris, 151
McKinley, William, 81
McLaughlin, Mignon, 73, 131, 172, 193
McLuhan, Marshall, 11, 58
Macmillen, Harold, 232
McMurtry, Larry, 306
Madison, James, 254
Madonna, 93
Maher, Bill, 185
Mailer, Norman, 16, 211, 280, 305
Malamud, Bernard, 10
Malraux, André, 232
Mamet, David, 82, 247, 248
Mancini, Henry, 245–46
Manion, Clarence, 267
Mankiewicz, Joseph L., 249
Mann, Horace, 34, 53, 79, 109
Mansfield, Katherine, 56
Marcus Aurelius, 27, 40–41, 113
Markey, Judy, 73
Marshall, Thomas R., 267
Martin, Billy, 281
Marx, Karl, 72, 280
Masina, Giulietta, 228
Mata Hari, 106–7
Matalin, Mary, 267–68
Mathewson, Christy, 285
Maugham, W. Somerset, 131, 151, 193
Maupassant, Guy de, 304
Mauriac, François, 17, 151
Maurois, André, 105, 193, 306
Mays, Willie, 285
“Meat Loaf,” (Michael Lee Aday), 275
Medawar, Peter B., 53
Meir, Golda, 232
Mencius, 142
Mencken, H. L., 73, 98, 131, 151, 161, 172, 193, 194, 211–12, 306
Menninger, Karl, 163
Mercer, Johnny, 246
Michener, James, 34
Mickins, Beverly, 212
Mikes, George, 73
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 175
Miller, Alice, 194
Miller, Arthur, 306
Miller, Dennis, 74, 253, 268
Miller, Henry, 34, 106
Miller, Larry, 189
Milton, John, 34, 53
Miró, Joán, 212
Mistinguette, 149
Mitchell, Paige, 151
Mitford, Nancy, 270
Miyazawa, Kenji, 35
Mizner, Addison, 248
Mizner, Wilson, 182, 247–48
Moliére, 298
Mondale, Walter, 268
Monroe, Marilyn, 82, 83, 94, 211, 248
Montagu, Ashley, 194
Montagu, Mary Wortley, 152, 194
Montaigne, Michel de, 35, 179–81, 232
Montalban, Ricardo, 86
Montalvo, Juan, 222
Morgan, J. P., 5
Morgan, Robin, 140
Morley, Christopher, 35, 48, 132, 152, 232, 313
Morris, Desmond, 132
Morris, Sylvia Jukes, 84
Morrison, Toni, 212
Morrissey, Steven Patrick, 93
Morrow, Lance, 212, 286
Moyers, Bill, 268
Muggeridge, Malcolm, 212–13, 268
Mull, Martin, 248
Mumford, Lewis, 54, 132
Murphy, Eddie, 154
Murray, Jim, 286
Murrow, Edward R., 54, 269
Mussolini, Benito, 266
Myers, Mike, 185
Nabokov, Vladimir, 132
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 93
Nathan, George Jean, 8, 93, 195, 204
Necker, Suzanne, 152
Nehru, Jawaharlal, 121
Nelms, Cynthia, 213
Neruda, Pablo, 162
Newman, Paul, 237, 250
Nichols, Beverly, 182
Nielson, Leslie, 213
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 35, 93, 152, 168, 172, 221, 313
Nin, Anaïs, 35, 54, 110, 173, 230, 301
Nixon, Richard M., 96, 260
Noonan, Peggy, 62, 269
Novak, Ralph, 82
Oates, Joyce Carol, 286
Obama, Barack, 269
O’Connell, Daniel, 93
Odets, Clifford, 213, 248
O’Hara, Maureen, 91
Olivier, Laurence, 95
O’Malley, Austin, 107, 111, 152, 182
O’Neal, Shaquille, 286
O’Neill, Eugene, 132
Ono, Yoko, 82
O’Rourke, P. J., 6, 74, 195, 206, 269
Ortega y Gasset, José, 54, 132
Orwell, George, 55, 270, 278, 307
Osborne, John, 269, 313
Ostrovsky, Alexander, 260
Oswald, Lee Harvey, 85
Overby, Mark A., 173
Overton, Rick, 74
Ovid, 159–60, 173, 195
Page, Walter H., 93
Paglia, Camille, 213, 232
Paine, Thomas, 232
Palmer, Arnold, 287
Parker, Dorothy, 74, 83, 232
Parton, Dolly, 91
Pascal, Blaise, 48, 221
Pasternak, Boris, 132
Pasteur, Louis, 107
Patinkin, Mark, 152
Patmore, Coventry, 153
Pavese, Cesare, 55, 132, 173
Pearl, Minnie, 195
Penn, Sean, 248
Peppard, George, 246
Percy, Walker, 305
Perot, H. Ross, 133
Picasso, Pablo, 8, 89
Pirandello, Luigi, 133, 153
Plame, Valerie, 268
Plato, 35, 40, 158, 200–201
Player, Gary, 287
Plummer, Christopher, 248
Plutarch, 257
Pope, Alexander, 181, 233, 307
Porter, Katherine Anne, 98
Post, Emily, 241
Postman, Neil, 194
Powell, Anthony, 133, 233
Preminger, Otto, 94
Priestley, J. B., 64, 195
Prince, 88, 202
Prior, Matthew, 263
Proust, Marcel, 82, 153, 173
Pythagoras, 286
Quindlen, Anna, 230
Rabelais, François, 203
Rahv, Philip, 150
Raines, Howell, 281
Randolph, John, 94
Raphael, Bette-Jane, 153
Raphael, Frederic, 74
Ray, John, 55, 209
Reagan, Ronald W., 96, 258–59, 266, 269, 270
Reasoner, Harry, 249, 289
Rebeta-Burditt, Joyce, 195
Redford, Robert, 250
Reed, Rex, 94, 95
Reed, Willis, 287
Reeves, Keanu, 249
Reid, Harry, 261
Reik, Theodor, 174
Reiser, Paul, 75
Remarque, Erich Maria, 249
Renard, Jules, 174
Renoir, Jean, 238, 249
Reston, James, 270
Rice, Anne, 95
Rice, Condoleezza, 276
Rich, Frank, 82
Richards, Ann, 95
Richardson, Ralph, 237
Richter, Jean Paul, 105, 112
Rickey, Branch, 287
Rickles, Don, 91
Rieux, Virginie des, 188
Rigg, Diana, 96
Rivarol, Antoine de, 146
Rizzuto, Phil, 275
Robbins, Tom, 174
Robinson, Edward Arlington, 55, 133, 174
Robinson, Edward G., 95, 241
Robinson, Jackie, 287
Rochefoucauld, François de la, 150, 170, 230
Rock, Chris, 75
Roddick, Andy, 287–88
Roeben, Scott, 213
Rogers, Will, 97
Romberg, Sigmund, 174
Rooney, Andy, 133, 287
Rooney, Mickey, 213
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, 36, 90, 261, 266, 267
Roosevelt, Theodore, II, 288
Roosevelt, Theodore “Teddy,” 29, 81, 91, 247, 270, 276, 288
Rorem, Ned, 110
Rosenbaum, George, 105
Ross, Lillian, 304
Rossini, Gioachino Antonio, 133
Rostand, Edmond, 111
Rove, Karl, 264
> Rowland, Helen, 153, 174, 195–96
Royko, Mike, 98, 288
Rubin, Jerry, 216
Ruby, Jack, 85
Runyon, Damon, 133
Ruskin, John, 95, 134
Russell, Bertrand, 36, 55, 168, 174
Russell, Rosalind, 130, 249
Russo, Richard, 134
Ruth, Babe, 241, 281
Safire, William, 16, 94, 104
St. Cyr, Lili, 214
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 138–39
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 4
Saki (H. H. Munro), 196
Samuels, Jim, 76
Sand, George, 233
Sandburg, Carl, 114, 134, 196
Sanders, George, 249, 250
Sanders, Harland David “Colonel Sanders,” 260
Santayana, George, 55, 114
Sappho, 175
Sarandon, Susan, 288
Sarton, May, 56, 153
Sassoon, Vidal, 204
Satir, Virginia, 196
Savile, George, 75, 150, 270
Sawyer, Robert J., 115
Sayers, Dorothy L., 12
Scarf, Maggie, 233
Schickel, Richard, 112, 154
Schlafly, Phyllis, 196
Schlesinger, John, 250
Schmidt, Joe, 135
Schopenauer, Arthur, 134, 233, 271
Schorr, Daniel, 240
Schreiner, Olive, 175
Schroeder, Patricia, 258–59
Schrum, Bob, 266
Schulz, Charles M., 119, 135, 196
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 90
Schweitzer, Albert, 36
Scribner, Charles, Jr., 36
Scully, Vin, 288, 289
Segovia, Andres, 113
Seinfeld, Jerry, 65, 76, 154, 214
Seneca, 135, 222, 233
Senn, J. P., 233
Serling, Rod, 308
Sevareid, Eric, 95
Shakespeare, William, 9, 14, 16, 23, 135, 158, 175, 176, 180, 197, 202–3, 224, 253
Shales, Tom, 250
Sharif, Omar, 289
Shaw, George Bernard, 36, 37, 107, 120, 121, 135, 136, 154, 197, 253
Shaw, Henry Wheeler, see Billings, Josh
Sheehan, George, 126
Sheehy, Gail, 56, 250
Sheen, Fulton J., 136
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 185
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 313
Shelton, Ron, 288
Shenstone, William, 307, 313
Shepard, Sam, 176
Shepherd, Cybill, 214
Sherman, Allen, 214
Shields, Carol, 136
Shoemaker, Willie, 286
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha, 28
Sidorova, Valentina, 279
Signoret, Simone, 197, 250
Simmons, Curt, 289
Simon, John, 82, 96
Simpson, James, 104
Sinatra, Frank, 176
Sinbad, 154
Sinclair, Andrew, 5
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 214
Sinise, Gary, 250
Skabichevsky, Alexander, 297
Skinner, B. F., 56
Smalley, Gary, 215
Smith, Adam, 154
Smith, Albert, 114
Smith, Bessie, 202
Smith, Dodie, 197
Smith, Logan Pearsall, 56, 234
Smith, Sydney, 12, 56, 96, 198, 307
Smith, Walter “Red,” 307
Snow, Carrie, 76
Socrates, 108, 115
Solon, 256–57
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander, 307
Sondheim, Stephen, 248
Sontag, Susan, 204, 215
Sophocles, 198, 200–201
Southey, Robert, 297, 306
Spark, Muriel, 234
Spielberg, Steven, 90
Spock, Benjamin, 198
Squires, Livia, 153
Stallone, Sylvester, 94, 279, 289
Stanislavsky, Konstantin, 251
Stanley, Edward (Lord Derby), 89
Stark, Freya, 198
Steele, Danielle, 314
Steeves, Tim, 215
Stegner, Wallace, 147
Stein, Gertrude, 293, 295
Steinbeck, John, 57, 294
Steinberg, David, 96, 251, 264
Steinberg, Saul, 107
Steinem, Gloria, 8, 140–41
Stendhal (pseudonym of Marie Henri Beyle), 155, 176, 271, 304, 307
Stern, Judith, 76
Sterne, Laurence, 307
Stevens, Wallace, 308
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 37, 44, 116, 142, 183, 220–21, 234, 306, 308
Stewart, Jon, 272
Stone, Irving, 96
Stoppard, Tom, 133, 234
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 164
Strauss, Robert, 251
Stravinsky, Igor, 243
Streisand, Barbra, 96
Strunk, William, Jr., 296–97
Styron, William, 294
Sullivan, Arthur, 87–88
Susann, Jacqueline, 87, 185
Swift, Jonathan, 57, 136, 257, 277
Sykes, Wanda, 76, 215
Szasz, Thomas, 57
Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert, 107
Tagore, Rabindranath, 37, 103, 216
Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de, 93
Tan, Amy, 189
Taylor, Elizabeth, 91
Taylor, Jeremy, 161, 171
Temple, Shirley, 97
Tenet, George, 276–77
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 97, 155
Terence, 35
Teresa, Mother, 37, 176, 213
Thackeray, William
Makepeace, 57–58, 234–35
Thespis, 69
Thoreau, Henry David, 6, 22–23, 37–38, 58, 109, 155, 176, 271, 293, 308
Thorn, John, 290
Thurber, James, 76, 97, 235
Thurman, Howard, 38, 115
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 39
Toffler, Alvin, 114
Tolstoy, Leo, 41, 176, 304
Tomlin, Lily, 76, 115, 216
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de, 182
Towne, Charles Hanson, 155
Tracy, Spencer, 148
Traver, Robert, 281, 308
Trollope, Anthony, 198
Trudeau, Garry, 271
Truffaut, François, 252
Truman, Harry S, 91–92, 258, 271
Trump, Donald, 98
Turgenev, Ivan, 162, 304
Turner, Lana, 245
Twain, Mark, 38, 45, 58, 62, 64, 76, 97, 309, 314
Tyler, Robin, 91
Tynan, Kenneth, 216, 308, 314
Ueland, Brenda, 185
Unruh, Jesse, 258
Updike, John, 15, 71, 136, 216, 314
Upham, Gladys, 155
Ustinov, Peter, 33, 198, 252
Valenti, Jack, 252
Valéry, Paul, 1, 106
Valois, Marguerite de, 161
Van Buren, Abigail “Dear Abby,” 235
Van Doren, Mark, 63
Van Gogh, Theo, 177
Van Gogh, Vincent, 58, 177
Velez, Lupe, 155
Victoria, Queen of England, 186, 272
Vidal, Gore, 198
Vidor, King, 198–99
Vining, Elizabeth Gray, 60–62
Virgil, 161
Viscott, David, 177
Vitale, Tony, 98
Voltaire (pseudonym of François-Marie Arouet), 34, 38, 98, 115, 136, 177, 216, 271, 309
Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr., 58, 314
Wagner, Jane, 77, 115
Wallach, Eli, 246
Walpole, Horace, 294
Walters, Barbara, 99
Walton, Izaak, 289–90
Wanderone, Rudolf “Minnesota Fats,” 285
Ward, William Arthur, 38
Ware, Eugene F., 136
Washington, George, 156, 254, 256, 272
Watson, Tom, 290
Waugh, Evelyn, 309
Wavell, Archibald, 177
Webster, Charles L., 97
Webst
er, Daniel, 79–80, 219
Webster, John, 180–81
Welch, Raquel, 258
Weld, William, 94
Welles, Orson, 98, 244, 252
Wells, H. G., 112
Wertmüller, Lina, 66
Wesley, John, 39
West, Jessamyn, 217
West, Mae, 69, 70, 111, 177, 207, 217
Westheimer, Ruth, 217
Westrum, Wes, 290
Wexler, Arnie, 290
Wharton, Edith, 39, 84, 137, 191
Whitaker, Carl A., 199
White, E. B., 58, 77, 296–97, 309
White, Theodore H., 272
White, William Allen, 98
Whittington, Harry, 5–6
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler, 177
Wilde, Oscar, 77, 85, 87, 186, 199
Wilder, Billy, 94, 238, 253
Wilder, Thornton, 199, 253, 295
Will, George F., 98, 291
Williams, Bern, 105
Williams, Ralph Vaughan, 86
Williams, Robin, 77, 250, 272, 280
Williams, Tennessee, 95, 98, 137
Wilmot, John, 178
Wilson, Earl, 253
Wilson, Flip, 32
Wilson, Harold, 272
Wilson, Richard, 99
Wilson, Willie, 291
Wilson, Woodrow, 39, 93, 267, 273
Winfrey, Oprah, 137, 291
Winkler, Henry, 156
Winn, Mary Day, 217
Winters, Jonathan, 135
Winters, Shelley, 237
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 59
Wodehouse, P. G., 78, 156, 199, 235
Woodward, Bob, 276
Woolf, Virginia, 59, 137, 310
Woollcott, Alexander, 82, 99
Wordsworth, William, 53–54
Wotton, Henry, 314
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 240, 245
Wright Brothers, 83
Yalom, Irvin D., 221
Yeats, William Butler, 178, 222, 248
Yerby, Frank, 310
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny, 13, 99, 137
York, Peter, 114
Young, Edward, 39, 113, 235
Youngman, Henny, 78
Zinsser, William, 310
About the Author
Dr. Mardy Grothe is a psychologist, management consultant, and platform speaker. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia University. The author of Oxymoronica, Viva la Repartee, and Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You, he is a popular speaker at the annual conventions of trade and professional associations. He has also been interviewed extensively on radio and television on topics ranging from problem bosses to the art of repartee. He lives with his wife Katherine in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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