Acheson 1: Time, Dec. 22, 1952; 2: A. Schlesinger, Jr., in K. Halle, Randolph Churchill
Acton 1: P. Quennell, The Sign of the Fish
Adams, Alexander, 1: Oxfam, Pass the Port
Adams, Ansel, 1: Ansel Adams: An Autobiography
Adams, F. P., 1–2: R. Drennan, The Algonquin Wits; 3: O. Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar; 4–5: R. Drennan, Wit’s End
Adams, H., 1: M. T. Chanler, Roman Spring: Memoirs, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA
Adams, J., 2: P. Smith, John Adams, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 4: Columbian Sentinel, July 12, 1826, in Boller, Presidential Anecdotes
Adams, J. Q., 1: E. Colman, Seventy-Five Years of White House Gossip, in P. Boller, ed., Presidential Anecdotes; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 3: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Addams 1: E. Wagenknecht, American Profile, 1900–1909
Addison 1: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 2: A. Bespaloff, The Fireside Book of Wine; 3: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Ade 1: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook
Adee 1: ’47, The Magazine of the Year, I
Adenauer 1: J. Gunther, Procession; 3: K. Edwards, More Things I Wish I’d Said
Adler 1: J. Braude, Braude’s Second Encyclopedia
Aeschylus 1: EB
Agassiz 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Agrippina 1: 1–2: Tacitus, Annals
Aidan 1: Bede, History of the English Church and People
Albemarle 1: E. Guérard, Dictionnaire Encyclopédique
Albert 1: Sir S. Lee, Queen Victoria, in A. Hardy, Queen Victoria Was Amused; 2: B. Disraeli, Reminiscences, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ
Albert, D’, 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz
Alcibiades 1: L. Harris, The Fine Art of Political Wit
Alcott, A., 1: C. Meigs, Invincible Louisa
Alcott, L., 1: M. Worthington, Miss Alcott of Concord
Alembert 1: I. Asimov, Biographical Encyclopedia
Alençon 1: C. Skinner, Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals
Alexander, G., 1: J. Aye, Humour in the Theatre
Alexander, S., 1: Oxfam, Pass the Port
Alexander I 1: M. Paléologue, The Enigmatic Czar; 2: Harper’s Magazine, April 1883, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 3: L. Wechsler, “The Boy Wonder,” The New Yorker, Nov. 17, 1986
Alexander III 1: 1–7: Plutarch, Lives; 8: F. Paley, Greek Wit
Alexander VI 1: O. Prescott, Princes of the Renaissance
Alexandra 1: R. Collier, The Rainbow People
Alfonso X 1: I. Asimov, Biographical Encyclopedia
Alfonso XIII 1: W. Churchill, Great Contemporaries
Alfred 2: Asser’s Life of King Alfred
Ali 2–3: R. Crouser, It’s Unlucky to Be Behind at the End of the Game; 5: P. O’Brian, Talkin’ Sports
Allais 1: M. Pedrazzini and J. Gris, Autant en apportent les mots; 2: C. Skinner, Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals
Allen, D. 1: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes
Allen, E., 1: Harper’s Magazine, July 1875, in C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 2: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 3: D. Fisher, Vermont Tradition, in B. Botkin, A Treasury of American Anecdotes; 4: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac
Allen, F., 1: J. Bryan III, “Funny Man,” Saturday Evening Post, Sept. 23, 1965; 2: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 3: J. Paar, P.S. Jack Paar
Allen, W., 1: P. Boller, ed., Hollywood Anecdotes; 2: P. Hay, ed., Movie Anecdotes
Allingham 1: J. Thorogood, Margery Allingham: A Biography
Alma-Tadema 1: W. Scholz, Das Buch des Lachens
Altenberg 1: S. Radecki, Das ABC des Lachens
Altman 1: M. Wiley and D. Bona, Inside Oscar
Alvanley 1–2: W. Adams, Treasury of Modern Anecdote
Ambrose 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, IV
Ammonius 1: J. C. Roy, Islands of Storm
Anaxagoras 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, II
Anaximenes 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz
Anders 2: T. Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Andersen 1–2: E. Bredsdorff, Hans Christian Andersen; 3: R. Godden, Hans Christian Andersen; 4: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Anderson 1: R. Nelson, The Almanac of American Letters
Andre 1: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Andrew 1: P. Bussard, The New Catholic Treasury of Wit and Humor
Anne, Princess, 2–3: E. Longford, The Oxford Book of Royal Anecdotes
Antheil 1: S. Beach, Musicdotes
Anthony, M., 1: Plutarch, Lives
Anthony, S., 1: W. Abbot, Notable Women in History; 2–3: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Antisthenes 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, II; 2: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz
Apelles 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, II; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Aquinas 1: H. and D. L. Thomas, Living Biographies of the Great Philosophers
Archelaus 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, II
Archer, G., 1: R. T. Sommers, Golf Anecdotes
Archer, W., 1: S. Behrman, Portrait of Max
Archimedes 1: New Columbia Encyclopedia; 2: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, II; 3: E. Bell, Men of Mathematics; 4: I. Asimov, Biographical Encyclopedia
Arditi 1: F. Berger, Reminiscences, Impressions, and Anecdotes
Aristides 1: Plutarch, Lives
Aristippus 1–2: F. Callières, Des Bons mots et des bons contes; 3: E. Guérard, Dictionnaire Encyclopédique
Arlen 1: M. Arlen, Exiles; 2: Book-of-the-Month Club News, Mar. 1944
Armour 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Armstrong, L., 1: J. Collier, Louis Armstrong; 2: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 4–6: B. Crow, Jazz Anecdotes
Armstrong, N., 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac; 3: T. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem
Arne 1: W. Cummings, Dr. Arne and Rule, Britannia
Arnim 1: W. Scholz, Das Buch des Lachens
Arno 1: B. Gill, Here at The New Yorker
Arnold 1: L. Trilling, Matthew Arnold, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 2: C. Sifakis, Dictionary of Historic Nicknames
Arnould 1, 3–4: L. Russell, English Wits; 2: E. Guérard, Dictionnaire Encyclopédique
Arria 1: Oxford Classical Dictionary
Asche 1: D. Knox, More Quotable Anecdotes
Asoka 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, I
Asquith, H., 1: D. Frost and M. Deakin, David Frost’s Book of Millionaires
Asquith, M., 1: W. Espy, Another Almanac of Words at Play; 2: C. Bowra, Memories 1898–1939; 3: J. Abdy and C. Grere, The Souls; 4: E. Longford, The Queen
Astaire 1–3: D. Niven, Bring On the Empty Horses
Astor, J. J., 1: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury; 2: E. Rachlis and J. Marquese, The Landlords
Astor, M. D., 1: J. Smith, Elsie de Wolfe
Astor, N.W., 1: Observer, Feb. 7, 1982; 2–3: DNB; 5: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 6: W. Manchester, The Last Lion
Atkinson 1: L. Missen, Quotable Anecdotes
Atlas 1: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac 2
Auber 1: L. Russell, English Wits; 2: E. Guérard, Dictionnaire Encyclopédique; 4: W. Scholz, Das Buch des Lachens
Aubernon 1–3: C. Skinner, Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals
Aubigné 1: L. Missen, After-Dinner Stories and Anecdotes
Auden 1: H. Carpenter, W. H. Auden; 2, 4: W. Espy, An Almanac of Words at Play; 3: Bookof-the-Month Club News, Dec. 1946; 5, 8: C. Osborne, W. H. Auden: The Life of a Poet, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 6–7: S. Spender, ed., W. H. Auden: A Tribute, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 9: W. S. Johnson, W. H. Auden
Auerbach 1: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 11, 1982; 2: A. Barra, That’s Not the Way It Was
Augustine 1: Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations
Augustus 1: Plutarch, Lives; 2–5: Macrobius, Saturnalia; 6: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, III
Aumale 1: A., Castelot, Paris: The Turbulent City; 2–5: C. Skinner, Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals
Austin, A., 1: E. Marsh, A Number of People
Austin, W., 1: C. Fadiman and C. Van Doren, The American Treasury
Avempace 1: W. Durant, The Story of Civilization, IV
Avery 1: L. Thomas, Late Night Thoughts
Aymé 1: M. and A. Guillois, Liberté, Egalité, Hilarité
Azeglio 1: H. Morton, A Traveller in Italy
Babbage 1: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 2: C. Darwin, Autobiography, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ
Bacall 1: O. Levant, The Unimportance of Being Oscar; 2: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac 2; 3: P. Hay, ed., Movie Anecdotes
Bach, C., 1: H. Schonberg, The Great Pianists
Bach, J. S., 1: S. Sadie, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
Bacon 1: J. Aubrey, Brief Lives; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 3: L. Missen, After-Dinner Stories and Anecdotes; 4–5: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz
Bader 1: Los Angeles Times, Sept. 7, 1982
Baeyer 1: J. Read, Humour and Humanism in Chemistry
Bahr 1: W. Scholz, Das Buch des Lachens
Bailly 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz
Baker 1–2: I. Wallace et al., Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
Bakst 1: A. Dolin, Friends and Memories
Balanchine 1: B. Taper, Balanchine: A Biography
Baldwin 1: DNB; 2: The Times (London), Mar. 17, 1982
Balfour 1: J. Abdy and C. Grere, The Souls
Balmain 1: R. Buckle, ed., Self-Portrait with Friends
Balsan 1: C. Canfield, Up and Down and Around
Balzac 1: I. Wallace et al., Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People; 2, 5: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 3: J. Timbs, Century of Anecdote; 4: D. George, A Book of Anecdotes; 6: E. de Goncourt, Journal des Goncourts; 7: D. Wallechinsky and I. Wallace, The People’s Almanac; 8: J. Train, True Remarkable Occurrences; 9: D. Boorstin, The Creators
Bancroft 1: S. Behrman, Portrait of Max
Bankhead 1: L. Hellman, Pentimento; 2: R. Drennan, Wit’s End; 3: H. Teichmann, Smart Aleck; 4: M. Ringo, Nobody Said It Better; 5–6: D. Herrmann, With Malice Toward All; 7: J. Paar, P.S. Jack Paar; 8: A. Faulkner and T. Hartman, All the Best People; 11: Celebrity Research Group, The Bedside Book of Celebrity Gossip
Banks 1: C. Fadiman, Any Number Can Play
Barbirolli 1: A. Previn, ed., Orchestra
Barham 1: W. Adams, Treasury of Modern Anecdote; 2: DNB
Barnes 1: New York Times Book Review, June 26, 1983; 2: G. Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination; 3: N. D. Murray, Darlinghissima: Letters to a Friend
Barnum 1: H. Rawson, Dictionary of Euphemisms; 2: I. Wallace, The Fabulous Showman; 3: L. Lucaire, Celebrity Trivia; 4: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Barr 1: Los Angeles Times, Feb. 8, 1981
Barrie 1–2, 4–5: C. Asquith, Portrait of Barrie; 3: I. Wallace, “Significa,” July 24, 1983; 6: J. Dunbar, J. M. Barrie; 7: R. Marquard, Jokes and Anecdotes; 8: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 9: E. Adams, ed., Mrs. J. Comyns Carr’s Reminiscences, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 10: J. Aye, Humour in the Theatre
Barrow 1: J. Larwood, Anecdotes of the Clergy
Barrows 1: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Barrymore, E. 1: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook; 2: J. McAleer, “Globe Man’s Daily Story,” Boston Globe, 1967; 3: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Barrymore, J., 1, 9: I. Wallace et al., Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People; 2: G. Lieberman, The Greatest Laughs of All Time; 3: B. Cerf, Try and Stop Me; 4: D. Niven, Bring On the Empty Horses; 5: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 6: R. Marquard, Jokes and Anecdotes; 7: M. Griffin, From Where I Sit; 8: J. Train, Wit: The Best Things Ever Said
Barrymore, M., 1: G. Fowler, Good Night, Sweet Prince
Bartók 1: V. Thomson, A Virgil Thomson Reader
Barton 1: J. C. Humes, Speaker’s Treasury; 2: M. Biggs, ed., Women’s Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women
Baruch 1: The New Yorker, Jan. 10, 1948; 2: B. Cerf, Bumper Crop of Anecdotes
Basie 1: S. Dance, The World of Count Basie Baum 2: D. P. Mannix, “The Father of Oz,” in A Sense of History
Baylis 1: B. Forbes, Ned’s Girl; 2: The New Yorker, Sept. 16, 1950
Bean 1: B. Botkin, Treasury of American Anecdotes
Beaton 1–2: R. Buckle, ed., Self-Portrait with Friends
Beatty 1: DNB
Beaumont 1: J. Boswell, Life of Johnson
Beckett 1: W. Lowenfels, The Paris Years; 2: D. Bair, Samuel Beckett
Beckford 1: W. P. Frith, My Autobiography and Reminiscences, in J. Sutherland, ed., OBLA; 2: J. Gere and J. Sparrow, Geoffrey Madan’s Notebooks
Beecham, T., 1: Kenin and Wintle, DBQ
Beecham, Sir T., 1–2, 5–10: H. Atkins and A. Newman, eds., Beecham Stories; 4: L. Humphrey, The Humor of Music; 11: S. Beach, Musicdotes
Beecher 1: L. and F. Copeland, 10,000 Jokes, Toasts, and Stories; 2: T. Masson, The Best Stories in the World; 3: T. Masson, ed., Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor, in R. Shenkman and K. Reiger, One-Night Stands with American History; 4: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Beerbohm 2–4: D. Cecil, Max: A Biography
Beethoven 2: E. Forbes, ed., Thayer’s Life of Beethoven; 3: A. Hopkins, Music All Around Me; 4, 6: S. Sadie, New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians; 5: F. Bonavia, ed., Musicians on Music; 7–8: N. Lebrecht, The Book of Musical Anecdotes; 9: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Begin 1: I. Wallace et al., Book of Lists 2
Behan 1: R. Jeffs, Brendan Behan, Man and Showman; 2: B. Behan, My Life with Brendan; 3: G. Brandreth, Great Theatrical Disasters
Bell, A., 1: J. J. Carty, The Smithsonian Report for 1922, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ; 2: I. Wallace et al., Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People
Bell, J., 1–2: I. Wallace, The Fabulous Originals
Belloc 1: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 2: New York Times Book Review, Aug. 2, 1982; 3: A. Wilson, Hilaire Belloc
Bellows 1: E. Speicher, A Personal Reminiscence, in Kenin and Wintle, DBQ
Bembo 1: S. Radecki, Das ABC des Lachens
Benchley 1: N. Rees, Quote…Unquote; 2: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 3: Saturday Evening Post, Sept. 23, 1965; 4: H. Teichmann, Smart Aleck; 5: B. Cerf, Try and Stop Me; 6: K. Tynan, Show People; 7: H. Thurber and E. Weeks, eds., Selected Letters of James Thurber; 8: D. Herrmann, With Malice Toward All; 9–10: R. Drennan, The Algonquin Wits; 11: N. Benchley, Robert Benchley, in D. Hall, ed., OBALA; 12: N. and B. Donaldson, How Did They Die?
Bennett, A., 1: B. Cerf, Shake Well Before Using; 2: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 3: J. McAleer, “Globe Man’s Daily Story,” Aug. 31, 1966; 4: E. Goossens, Overture and Beginners
Bennett, J., 1: B. Morton, Americans in Paris; 2: P. Brendon, The Life and Death of the Press Barons; 3–4: D. Frost and M. Deakin, David Frost’s Book of Millionaires
Benton 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 2: Harper’s Magazine, in R. Shenkman and K. Reiger, One-Night Stands with American History
Berg 1: J. McBride, High and Inside: The A-Z Guide to the Language of Baseball Beria 1: J. Gunther, Inside Russia Today
Bernadotte 1: S. Radecki, Das ABC des Lachens
Bernard 1, 5–7: C. Skinner, Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals; 4: E. Kelen, Peace in Their Time
Berners 1–3: E. Sitwell, Taken Care Of; 4: E. Salter, Helpmann; 5: J. Bryan, III, ed., Hodgepodge: A Commonplace Book
Bernhardt 1–2, 4, 6: A. May, Different Drummers; 3: Oxford Dictionary of Quotations; 5: L. and M. Cowan, The Wit of Women; 7, 10–11: C. Skinner, Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals; 8: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes; 9: L. Missen, Quotable Anecdotes; 12: J. Braude, Speaker’s and Toastmaster’s Handbook
Bernoulli 1: J. E.
Bell, Men of Mathematics
Bernstein, H., 1: B. Cerf, The Life of the Party
Bernstein, L., 1: H. Temianka, Facing the Music; 3–4: N. Lebrecht, The Book of Musical Anecdotes
Bernstein, R., 1: P. Schwed, Turning the Pages
Berra 4: L. Rosten, People I Have Loved, Known, or Admired; 5: W. Espy, An Almanac of Words at Play; 6: R. Crouser, It’s Unlucky to Be Behind at the End of the Game; 7–8, 10–13: D. Okrent and S. Wolf, eds., Baseball Anecdotes; 9: Y. Berra, The Yogi Book; 14–15: J. McBride, High and Inside: The A-Z Guide to the Language of Baseball; 16: A. Stevens, “Shell Shocked; More Baseball Memories with Jim Bouton,” The Sanibel/ Captiva Islander, Dec. 1, 1992; 18: A. Barra, That’s Not the Way It Was
Betty 1: A. Matthews, Anecdotes of Action, in F. Muir, Irreverent Social History
Beuno 1: ’48, The Magazine of the Year, vol. 2, no. 4
Bialik 1: W. Novak and M. Waldoks, The Big Book of Jewish Humor
Bing 1–6, 8: Sir R. Bing, 5000 Nights at the Opera; 7: Sir. R. Bing, A Knight at the Opera
Bion 1: E. Fuller, 2500 Anecdotes
Bismarck 1, 7: E. Crankshaw, Bismarck; 2: C. Shriner, Wit, Wisdom, and Foibles of the Great; 3: W. Scholz, Das Buch des Laches; 4: H. Ziegler, Heitere Muse; 5–6: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz; 8: R. K. Massie, Dreadnought: Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War
Blackwell 1: A. Powell, London Walks
Blake, E., 1–2: The Times (London), Feb. 15, 1983
Blake, W., 1: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 2–3: J. Timbs, English Eccentrics
Blech 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz
Blessington 1: D. Duff, Eugénie and Napoleon III
Blomberg 1: C. Jones, What Makes Winners Win
Blume 1: J. Wintle and E. Fisher, The Pied Pipers
Blumenthal 1: H. Hoffmeister, Anekdotenschatz
Bogart 1: V. Thompson, Bogie and Me
Bogdanovich 1: P. Hay, ed., Movie Anecdotes
Boileau 1: R. Hendrickson, The Literary Life; 2: V. Cronin, Louis XIV
Boleyn 1: I. Wallace et al., Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People; 2: W. Abbot, Notable Women in History
Bolingbroke 1: DNB
Bolt 1–2: Los Angeles Times, Mar. 13, 1982
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