When I began work on The Yale Book of Quotations for Yale University Press in 2000, I was certain that I could improve upon the standard quotation dictionaries--Bartlett's Familiar Quotations and The ...

Did you know that Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake” and that “War is hell” did not originate with William Tecumseh Sherman? These are some of the fun facts one discovers in “The New Yale ...

A Forex quote shows the relative value of one currency against another, and these currency pairs form the backbone of all transactions in the market. In this guide, we'll break down how to read Forex ...

Sally Emerson, author of several novels including Second Sight and Broken Bodies, has recently published In Loving Memory, A Collection for Memorial Services, Funerals and Just Getting By, an ...

I've been collecting humorous quotations about health for a while. Now that I have 20, I thought I'd share. I hope a good number of these tickle your funny bone. The Search for Perfect Health "Be ...

When John Bartlett published his first book of “familiar quotations,” the Civil War hadn’t yet begun. Since 1855, the project of a bookstore owner has evolved into an American library staple, packed ...

The punctuation for integrating academic quotes is a little different than dialogue punctuation. When a quotation ends a sentence and the parenthetical citation is at the end, the period should come ...