Here's a little piece promoting our quotation books, accompanied by a
trivia quiz in honor of Veterans Day. Feel free to use or adapt...
=====Mary Whisner, Head of Reference======================
=====Gallagher Law Library, University of Washington======
=====whisner@u.washington.edu=============================
QUOTATION BOOKS
John Bartlett, a bookstore owner in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was
often asked for help identifying quotations. Although he had never gone
to college, he read widely and kept a commonplace book where he copied
passages from his reading. In 1855 he published Familiar Quotations; by
his death in 1895, he had brought out nine editions.
The Gallagher Law Library has a selection of quotation books to
help you when you are looking for the source of a famous line or trying to
find an apt expression of a theme. They include:
John Bartlett, Familiar Quotations (15th and 125th anniversary
edition by Emily Morison Beck) PN6081.B27 1980 at Reference Office
The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations PN6080.O95 1979 at Reference Office
(available on WESTLAW: QUOTATIONS database)
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations Requested from the
Congressional Research Service (edited by Suzy Platt) PN6081.R435 1989 at
Reference Office
Fred R. Shapiro, The Oxford Dictionary of American Legal Quotations
KF159.S53 1993 at Reference Office
TRIVIA CORNER
VETERANS DAY
In honor of Veterans Day, identify the sources of the following
quotations. Answers are in the box below; they also may be found in the
books listed above, along with thousands of other quotations.
1. "But, if being a good soldier is your kind of good soldier, of being
unable to think for himself and say what he thinks, of being narrow and
blind and insensible to a higher duty, you can have the uniform and all
that goes with it."
2. "Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section
is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, and
parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any
war in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it?"
3. "In war there is no substitute for victory."
4. "You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and
cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges: the old
ones, grub."
a. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, address to a Joint Meeting fo Congress, April
19, 1951; b. George Bernard Shaw, Arms and the Man (1898), Act I; c.
Milton Sperling and Emmet Lavery, The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell
(screenplay) (1955); d. Rep. Daniel Webster, remarks in the House,
December 9, 1814.
Answers: 1c; 2d; 3a; 4b
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