In addition, the " royal road " anecdote is questionable since it is similar to a story told about Menaechmus and Alexander the Great.

Hotel archivist Susan Scott recounts an anecdote that, when he was being taken out of the building on a stretcher shortly before his death in 2002, he raised his hand and told the diners " it was the food.

An apocryphal anecdote told by Diego Rivera concerning Utrillo's paternity is related in the unpublished memoirs of one of his American collectors, Ruth Bakwin:

* parable: Extended metaphor told as an anecdote to illustrate or teach a moral lesson

" A famous anecdote relates that one of his stage costars, Maureen Stapleton, told the director of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite, " I don't know what to do — I'm scared of him.

The atmosphere in the group can be illustrated by an anecdote told by Laurent Schwartz.

One of his fellow students was RAF Sgt Jack Morton, who told a humorous anecdote while he and his fellow student Rennie were in the same class: " At the end of our primary course we were posted to a Basic Flying School at Cochran Field, Macon, Georgia.

Henry is said to have disliked his younger brother, Charles, and teased him, although this derives from only one anecdote: when Charles was nine years of age, Henry snatched off the hat of a bishop and put it on the younger child's head, then told his younger brother that when he became king he would make Charles Archbishop of Canterbury, and then Charles would have a long robe to hide his ugly rickety legs.

This celebrated story is told with variations by many ancient authors, and a similar anecdote has been told of Hippocrates, Galen, Avicenna, and ( if the names be not fictitious ) Panacius and Acestinus.

She told an anecdote about how someone in the family had put a can of beer in Hank's casket.

In his review for The New York Times, A. O. Scott wrote, " Parsons himself might have written a surreal, funny-sad ballad about the aftermath of his own death, but Grand Theft Parsons is little more than a surreal anecdote, told in too much detail and without enough soul or imagination to make anything more than a footnote to a legend ".

An anecdote told of Yazid is that his wife Sudah learning he was pining for an expensive slave girl, purchased this slave girl and presented her to Yazid as a gift.

An anecdote reports that Paderewski jokingly told Bauer to concentrate on the piano because " You have such beautiful hair ".

In introductions to it he has told the anecdote of a psychiatrist and patient who admitted they had discussed it one day in therapy, without realizing at the time that one had read one book and one the other.

It is full of anecdotes about the larger-than-life characters who dominated Broadway between 1915 and 1930, but the biographer Frances Donaldson writes that it is to be read as entertainment rather than reliable history: " Guy, having once invented an anecdote, told it so often that it was impossible to know whether in the end he believed it or not.

Another anecdote says that al-Nabigha told al-Khansa " If Abu Basir had not already recited to me, I would have said that you are the greatest poet of the Arabs.

* Schulz told an anecdote wherein he visited the grave of Beethoven and placed a Snoopy pin on it.

Gaiman himself has said that the story is based on a historical anecdote told by George MacDonald Fraser.

At a Republican fundraiser at the Mississippi Coliseum in Jackson on June 20, 1983, U. S. President Ronald W. Reagan told the following anecdote:

The first appearance of the anecdote is in Vladimir Dahl's " Rasskazy o vremenakh Pavla I " (" Stories of the time of Paul I "), a short piece published in the journal Russkaya Starina in 1870 ; he reported it as told by his father, Jochan Christian von Dahl ( 1764-1821 ).

An anecdote frequently told said that Stolo's wife urged him to procure the consulship for plebeians through the Lex Licinia Sextia, as she was jealous of the honors of Servius Sulpicius Praetextatus, the patrician husband of her sister.

Lubitsch later told Lajos Biró the anecdote.

An anecdote about his language skills relates that when he finally started speaking French, one director told him that he preferred his old accent.

In one anecdote his arrival at a chemical plant is described in which he was denied access by the director because he would not allow anyone to see the production procedure which was a trade secret.

Another famous anecdote from his job was used by Whorf to argue that language use affects habitual behavior.

According to an anecdote preserved by Suetonius, Caesar did not deny that Catullus's lampoons left an indelible stain on his reputation, but when Catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day.

* The preface of Concrete Mathematics includes the following anecdote: " When Knuth taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft.

In an anecdote Jarmusch has recounted of the formative experience of showing his mentor his first script, Ray disapproved of its lack of action, to which Jarmusch responded after meditating on the critique by reworking the script to be even less eventful.

Journalists who believe they are being fair or objective may give biased accounts — by reporting selectively, trusting too much to anecdote, or giving a partial explanation of actions.

An old anecdote recounts that when Strauss's wife Adele asked Brahms to autograph her fan, he wrote the first few notes of the " Blue Danube " waltz, and then wrote the words " Unfortunately not by Johannes Brahms!

Shakespeare's use of it in All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure followed his sources for the plays ( stories by Boccaccio and Cinthio ); nevertheless Oxfordians say that de Vere was drawn to these stories because they " paralleled his own ", based on Osborne's anecdote.

In an apocryphal anecdote in the collection of imperial biographies called the Augustan History, the spot on which he had built an oratory was claimed by tavern keepers, but Alexander Severus decided that the worship of any god was better than a tavern, hence the structure's name.

As one anecdote goes, Aragonés was once left alone in a room by his parents with a box of crayons.

Frequent collaborator Mark Evanier related an anecdote from their time on the short-lived 1983 NBC series " The half-Hour Comedy Hour ," which featured a guest appearance by model Jayne Kennedy:

The anecdote originally appeared in an early biography of Mozart by Franz Xaver Niemetschek.

One anecdote of the conflict recounts June 1879 when the Santa Fe defended its roundhouse in Pueblo with Dodge City toughs led by Bat Masterson ; on that occasion, D & RG treasurer R. F. Weitbrec paid the defenders to leave.

The print was investigated by the museum ’ s curator after he heard an anecdote from a cinema club manager expressing surprise at the length of a print of Metropolis he had viewed.

This claim was known by the anecdote of the Delphic oracular pronouncement that Socrates was the wisest of all men.

As an anecdote to this thinking, Lee once wrote an epitaph which read: ' In memory of a once fluid man, crammed and distorted by the classical mess.

It is of some value as a historical source, especially for prohibited literature, and full of anecdotes, for which it was sieved by the brothers Goncourt, who revived interest in this obscure figure, whom they presented as the anecdotier parfait, the reputation, as the " perfect recounter of anecdote " to the present time.

While one report says Milo held his arm outstretched and challengers were unable to bend his fingers, another anecdote recorded by Claudius Aelianus disputes Milo's reputation for enormous strength.

" The quote is apocryphal ; it did not appear in print until 1896, and it has been argued that " The long-term durability of Lincoln's greeting as an anecdote in literary studies and Stowe scholarship can perhaps be explained in part by the desire among many contemporary intellectuals ... to affirm the role of literature as an agent of social change.

As an anecdote, one of the more notable attacks both on the concept of lebensraum, and on Hitler, was made in a speech by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in which he stated that " There is not enough lebensraum on this planet for both God and Hitler.

A local anecdote says that it was knocked off by a low flying aircraft from a nearby airfield in the Second World War.

In Mormonism, testifying is also referred to as " bearing one's testimony ," and often involves the sharing of personal experience — ranging from a simple anecdote to an account of personal revelation — followed by a statement of belief that has been confirmed by this experience.

The proverb was apparently based on an anecdote about Ibycus stupidly or nobly turning down an opportunity to become tyrant of Rhegium in order to pursue a poetic career instead ( one modern scholar however infers from his poetry that Ibycus was in fact wise enough to avoid the lure of supreme power, citing as an example Plato's quotation from one of his lyrics: " I am afraid it may be in exchange for some sin before the gods that I get honour from men ") There is no other information about Ibycus ' activities in the West, apart from an account by Himerius, that he fell from his chariot while travelling between Catana and Himera and injured his hand badly enough to give up playing the lyre " for some considerable time.