Robert Morley's Book of Bricks
Robert Morley's Book of Bricks

Author: Robert Morley

Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780399122750

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A humorous look at the bloopers, gaffes, and faux-pas, i.e. bloopers, of famous people. From the pen of a few funny actor, writer, and bon-vivant.

The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes
The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes

Author: Clifton Fadiman

Publisher: Hachette+ORM

Published: 2009-10-31

Total Pages: 1322

ISBN-13: 0316084727

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A book compiled of anecdotes from other collections, arranged under the name of the person they're about.

Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

Author: Andre Bernard

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2000-09-21

Total Pages: 808

ISBN-13: 0446931268

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From Hank Aaron to King Zog, Mao Tse-Tung to Madonna, Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes features more than 2,000 people from around the world, past and present, in all fields. These short anecdotes provide remarkable insight into the human character. Ranging from the humorous to the tearful, they span classical history, recent politics, modern science and the arts. Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes is a gold mine for anyone who gives speeches, is doing research, or simply likes to browse. As an informal tour of history and human nature at its most entertaining & instructive, this is sure to be a perennial favorite for years to come.

Author: David Bruce

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2006-06-01

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 0595398758

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"Bride of The Funniest People in Religion and Families" contains such anecdotes as these: When Panamanian salsa singer Rubin Blades married Lisa Lebenzon, an Anglo (a white American not of Spanish descent) non-Spanish speaker, he asked her to learn Spanish so he could speak his native language at home. She finished in only seven months a Spanish course that normally took three years. Dr. Louis Finkelstein, chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, kept a strictly kosher diet. While in Paris, he and a group of rabbis ate only in kosher restaurants. On leaving Paris, Dr. Finkelstein joked, "I can't understand all this fuss people make about French cooking. We have the same things at home." A Sufi teacher spoke about the virtue of patience. As he spoke, a scorpion stung his foot repeatedly. His followers eventually noticed the scorpion and asked the teacher why he had not moved his foot away from it. The teacher replied, "I was discussing the virtue of patience. I could hardly have spoken about patience without also setting an example of patience. I would have been ashamed before God."