Julio 17, 2008
Quotes
Quotes About Quotes
The Rules of Misquotation:
Axiom 1. Any quotation that can be altered will be.
Corollary 1A: Vivid words hook misquotes in the mind.
Corollary 1B: Numbers are hard to keep straight.
Corollary 1C: Small changes can have a big impact (or: what a difference an a makes).
Corollary 1D: If noted figures don’t say what needs to be said, we’ll say it for them.
Corollary 1E: Journalists are a less than dependable source of accurate quotes.
Corollary 1F: Famous dead people make excellent commentators on current events.
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Axiom 2. Famous quotes need famous mouths.
Corollary 2A: Well-known messengers get credit for clever comments they report from less celebrated mouths.
Corollary 2B: Particularly quotable figures receive more than their share of quotable quotes.
Corollary 2C: Comments made about someone might as well have been said by that person.
Corollary 2D: Who you think said something may depend on where you live.
Corollary 2E: Vintage quotes are considered to be in the public domain.
Corollary 2F: In a pinch, any orphan quote can be called a Chinese proverb.
- Ralph Keyes, “Nice Guys Finish Seventh”: False Phrases, Spurious Sayings, and Familiar Misquotations (1992)
Sayings
Julio 17, 2008
Quotations Quotes
Quotes About Quotations
Anatole France
- Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life’s most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.
Jokes Blog
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You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong
Famous Quotes and Sayings - Abraham Lincoln
Bill Austin
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools speak because they have to say something
Famous Quotes and Sayings - Unknown
4th of July Quotes
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Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.
– February 27, 1860 - Cooper Union Address
- Abraham Lincoln
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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life : by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion
Famous Quotes - Charles Caleb Colton
Bill Austin
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Through achievement the ego is fulfilled, so you must achieve something You must be able to attach something to yourself that you can claim as mine : my achievement
Famous Quotes and Sayings - Rajneesh
Bill Austin
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
- Vaclav Havel 1936-, Czech Playwright, President
Season Opener
Junio 29, 2008
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953, a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors
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