Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When »

Ralph Keyes's books include The Post-Truth Era, The Courage to Write, and Is There Life After High School? He lives in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

An amusing and enlightening look at famous sayings and how they've mystifyingly been mis-written, mis-attributed, and mis-applied.

Library Journal

Who is credited for saying "You are what you eat?" Karl Marx? According to this amusing A-to-Z compendium of famous sayings, it was actually philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach who in 1850 said "Man is what he eats," but it was French politician Anthelme Brillat-Savarin who a whole quarter century earlier wrote "Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are." It is morsels of information like this that make up this inexpensive ready-reference source. Keyes (The Post-Truth Era) aims not only to set the record straight about who said what and when but to tell the story of how each quote was conceived and evolved over time. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.