“Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions”
“As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer”
Robert Quillen
“A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.”
George W. Bush
“His memoir is a splendid artichoke of anecdotes, in which not merely the heart and leaves but the thistles as well are edible.”
John Leonard
“He uses anecdotes for the same reason other people climb mountains - they are there.”
Walter Goodman
“If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.”
Anthony Holden
