Historical Anecdote Quotes

Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!

I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants.

The Italians were eating with forks when the French were still eating each other.

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

You wouldn't believe how the town was named for me. I was met by the whole population, headed by the mayor.

The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who imagined the fish's features to be those of Symmachus, a man he had just killed. But for this story, we of today would have no idea what Symmachus looked like.

René of Anjou [(1409-80)] painted a picture of his mistress's corpse as he found it eaten by worms on having it [her tomb] openedon his return from a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. This [is] another instance of the strange mixture of religion and gallantry in those ages.