[PW] Re: Accurate Quotation Sites

[Dennis Lien]

At 01:15 PM 8/27/2006, you wrote:

>I am updating my web site, quotationdictionary.com.  For the list of links
>to other quotation sites, I would welcome suggestions of large general
>quote sites with accurate or semi-accurate source attributions.  The ones
>I already have are:
>
>AskOxford
>Bartleby
>Bloomsbury
>Quoteland
>Quotez
>Wikiquote
>
>I realize that to call some of those above "accurate or semi-accurate" is
>a stretch, but I want to list the large sites that make at least a partial
>attempt to give sources beyond just the name of an author.
>
>I would also welcome suggestions of good-quality specialized quotation
>sites such as Internet Movie Database or Poemhunter or twainquotes.com.
>
>Fred Shapiro


I know you already know about the Robert Benchley Society site, but for the
sake of the Archives:

http://www.robertbenchley.org/sob/quotes.htm


Also in my bookmarks:

Sourced quotations from comic books (not necessarily "first use" however):

http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/200/300/ktaylor/kaboom/index.htm

Thomas Jefferson

http://www.monticello.org/library/reference/famquote.html


"Celebrity" anecdotes/quotes:

http://www.anecdotage.com/browse.php



I've also bookmarked the following "didn't say that/spurious/debunker" sites:

Spurious Mark Twain:

http://www.boondocksnet.com/twaintexts/quotes_not_twain.html#N_3_

Spurious Thomas Jefferson:

http://eyler.freeservers.com/JeffPers/jefpco13.htm

Spurious Al Gore:

http://www.gargaro.com/notgore.html


All of the above are sourced, or mostly sourced; I won't vouch for
accuracy of all such (but would be glad to know your opinion of them).

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu