Mardy Grothe - Neverisms

Nance, W. A. “Dub,” 163Napoleon I (Napoleon Bonaparte), 94Nash, Ogden, 71, 316Nastasi, Michael, 114, 281Nathan, George Jean, 115, 163–64Neame, Ronald, 297Neill, A. S., 10Nelms, Cynthia, 25Nelson, Ben, 115Neuharth, Al, 262Nicholson, Jack, 297Nicholson, Nancy, 145Nixon, Richard, 229–30Noll, Chuck, 224Noonan, Peggy, 352Norwegian proverb, 205Novak, William, 183–84Novello, Don, 305N. W. Ayer & Son, 101–2Nye, Bill (“Not the Science Guy”), 24

O’Connor, Anahad, 281O’Connor, Patricia T., 316, 352Ogilvy, David M., 262–63Olsson, Peter, 130O’Malley, Austin, 331Onassis, Aristotle, 184O’Neill, Thomas P. “Tip,” 242Orben, Robert, 33O’Rourke, P. J., 22–24, 130, 145, 184, 316–17Orr, Alice, 115, 352Orwell, George, 318, 340–41Ovid, 184–85

Packouz, Kalman, 317Paddleford, Clementine, 331Pagter, Carl R., 276Paige, Leroy “Satchel,” 51, 98–99, 224Palmer, Samuel, 88Pankhurst, Christabel, 242Paretsky, Sara, 164Parker, Brent, 30Parker, Joseph, 331Parker, Pat, 317Parker, Tom, 281Pascal, Blaise, 317Pasteur, Louis, 72Patinkin, Mark, 332Patterson, Grove, 38–39Patton, George S., 51, 98, 130, 263Pavlov, Ivan, 51Peale, Norman Vincent, 38–39, 51–52, 72, 145–46Pearson, Ridley, 281Penick, Harvey, 225Penn, William, 204Phelps, William Lyon, 164Pitino, Rick, 225Plath, Sylvia, 281Porter, Katherine Anne, 305Post, Emily, 60–61, 164Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 72Powell, Colin, 52, 60Prescott, William, 5Preston, Robert, 298Price, Wesley, 353Pushkin, Alexander, 324Puzo, Mario, 9, 289–90, 353

Quadracci, Harry, 263–64Quigley, Anita, 205Quinn, Jane Bryant, 72–73

Raines, Shirley, 146Raleigh, Sir Walter, 131Rand, Ayn, 13, 53Reagan, Nancy, 242Reardon, Kate, 131Redford, Robert, 298Reeves, Don, 83Renkel, Ruth, 336Restak, Richard, 59Restivo, Joe, 33Rice, Grantland, 327Rich, Ronda, 164Richter, Jean Paul, 205, 353Rickey, Branch, 223, 225Ridley, Dennis, 33Rimmer, Christine, 131Ritz, César, 264Rivera, Karisa, 205Rivers, Joan, 34, 126, 146, 205, 298Rivers, Melissa, 205–6Roaring Lion (Rafael de Leon), 206Robbins, Anthony, 146Robbins, Harold, 281–82Rockefeller, John D., 53Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 259Rockefeller, Nelson, 243Rogers, Will, 243Rohn, Jim, 73Romer, Paul, 56Rooney, Andy, 131Roos, Stephen, 282Roosevelt, Eleanor, 73, 165Roosevelt, Franklin D., 115, 233Roosevelt, Theodore, 131–32, 146, 243Rose, Billy, 250Rosenblatt, Roger, 73–74Ross, David, 282Ross, Edward N., 282Ross, Joel E., 115Rostand, Jean, 206Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 206–7Rove, Karl, 243–44Rowbottom, Robert, 336Rowland, Helen, 132Rudner, Rita, 34Rudolph, Wilma, 105Ruff, Howard, 264–65Rushdie, Salman, 353–54Russell, Bertrand, 6, 309Russell, Charles Arthur, 53Russell, Mark, 34Russian proverb, 335Ruth, George Herman “Babe,” 225Ryan, Nolan, 225Ryan, Shannon, 34

Safire, William, 57–59, 74, 318, 354Sandberg, Ryne, 147Sanders, Darcie, 282Sanders, Edward E., 109Sarnoff, Dorothy, 165Sauter, Van Gordon, 52–53Sawyer, Eve, 115Schell, Erwin H., 246–49Schmertz, Herb, 244Schmuck, Peter and Randy Youngman, 210Schneider, Edgar, 318Schneider, Sherrie, 178–79Schoeffler, Oscar, 116Schuller, Robert H., 116, 147, 336Schwartz, David J., 106, 147Schwarzkopf, Norman, 60, 147Schweitzer, Albert, 53, 55Scottish proverb, 204Selleck, Tom, 298Serling, Rod, 354Servan-Schreiber, David, 116Seward, William H., 230–31Shandling, Gary, 185Shaw, George Bernard, 54, 165, 304Shaw, Henry Wheeler, 196, 311Shawn, Wallace, 298–99Sheen, Fulton J., 54Shields, Marcella, 116Shoales, Ian (Merle Kessler), 185Sibelius, Jean, 74Simmons, Richard, 276Sloan, Alfred P., 265Slott, Phil, 82, 282–83Slung, Michele, 207–8Smith, Dean, 226Smith, Hannah Whitall, 166Smith, Patti, 336Smith, Robert, 132Smith, Sydney, 8, 54, 74Smith, Wes, 132, 185, 208Smith, Will, 299Snead, Sam, 226–27Snider, Dee, 283Sophocles, 90Sorenson, Shauna, 244Soul, Jimmy, 206Sozio, Donna, 132Spanish proverbs, 72, 131, 205, 336Sparks, 283Spinelli, Stephen, 333Spitzer, Eliot, 232Spooner, John D., 208Stanislavsky, Constantin, 299–300Steinbeck, John, 74, 354Stengel, Casey, 227Stephens, Louanne, 132Stewart, James, 290Stewart, Rod, 283–84Stiegele, Richard F., 284Stillwell, “Vinegar Joe,” 283Stone, Oliver, 116Strauss, Neil, 117, 169–72Strauss, Richard, 34Striker, Susan, 189–92Strunk, William, Jr., 342, 354–55Summar, Tamara, 275Swanson, Gloria, 306Swift, Jonathan, 166Syrus, Publilius, 81–82, 336

Talleyrand, Charles-Maurice de, 318Tamblyn, Greg, 34Telushkin, Joseph, 166Templeton, John, 250Tencin, Claudine Guérin de, 167Terry, Ellen, 300Thackeray, William Makepeace, 42–43Thirkell, Angela, 319Thomas, Caitlin, 154, 337Thomas, Marlo, 295Thurber, James, 34–35, 330Tilden, Bill, 227Tomjanovich, Rudy, 117Tonini, Brad, 117, 265Tracy, Brian, 133, 265–66Trahey, Jane, 266Tree, Herbert Beerbohm, 167Trevino, Lee, 223Trollope, Anthony, 54Troy, Dr. Leo, 35Truman, Harry S., 147, 244Trump, Donald, 284Tubman, Harriet, 337Tucillo, Liz, 176Tucker, Sophie, 271Tupper, Martin F., 87–88Turner, Kathleen, 117Twain, Mark, 12, 35, 73, 81, 307

Updike, John, 355

Valenti, Jack, 147, 245Van Buren, Abigail (“Dear Abby”), 74, 185–86, 227Van Buren, Martin, 231–32Van Gogh, Vincent, 54Varley, John, 133Vega, Alexa, 301Venturi, Ken, 309Versace, Donatella, 74–75Vidal, Gore, 186, 319Vreeland, Diana, 75, 147–48

Wahlberg, Mark, 300Waitley, Denis, 75Walker, Alice, 337Ward, Artemus, 337Ward, Lyla Blake, 208Warren, Lissa, 117–18, 355Washington, Booker T., 55Watson, James, 58Watts, Alan, 186Waugh, Evelyn, 301Waxman, Carl, 25Wayne, John, 96, 301Weatherly, Michael, 186Weaver, Sigourney, 302Weaving, Hugo, 301Webber, Robin, 148Weinberg, Jack, 124Welch, Jack, 118, 266Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of, 238Welty, Eudora, 9Wesley, John, 55West, Mae, 186West, Rebecca, 245Whately, Richard, 75White, E. B., 75, 342, 354–55Whitehead, Alfred North, 55Whiting, Kendra Lynn, 284Wiksell, Wesley, 266Wilde, Oscar, 133Wilder, Thorton, 64Wilding, Tony, 227Williams, Bruce, 56Williams, Robert H., 118Williams, Robin, 35Williams, Ted, 227–28Williams, Thomas A., 118Willour, Margaret, 56Wilson, Woodrow, 94, 245Winfrey, Oprah, 187Winterson, Jeannette, 355Witherspoon, John, 167–68, 355Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 338Wodehouse, P. G., 133, 187, 305Wolfe, Tom, 356Wooden, John, 213–14, 228Woodhead, H. Evan, 76Wozniak, Steve, 133Wright, Steven, 118Wruble, Bernard, 52

Yeager, Charles “Chuck,” 76Yeats, William Butler, 187–88Yiddish proverb, 131Young, Stark, 168

Zakaria, Fareed, 56Zappa, Frank, 76Zevin, Dan, 35Ziglar, Zig, 76, 148, 338Zimbardo, Philip, 77Zinsser, William, 342, 356

About the Author

DR. MARDY GROTHE is a psychologist, management consultant, and public speaker. He is the author of five previous word-and-language books: I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like, Viva la Repartee, Oxymoronica, Ifferisms, and Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You . A lifelong quotation collector, Dr. Mardy—as he is known to his fans around the globe—is routinely described as a “quotation maven” and is well on his way to becoming America’s most popular quotation anthologist. He lives with his wife, Katherine Robinson, in North Carolina.

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