This is where you post things famous people might have said…but never got around to actually saying. Try to make it as much in the style of the person you are “quoting” as is possible.
“Everything I know I learned from observing others, and taking drugs, and observing others taking drugs.” -Hunter Thompson
“Now I am become Death; The destroyer of Worlds … and Vodka Martinis.” - R.Oppenheimer
“Nobody really understands Quantum Mechanics … or women.” - R. Feinman
“This green smoothie tastes funny.” - Socrates
“Out! Out damned spot!” - B. Clinton
Do you really think any of these could be mistaken for a real quote from these people? I’m not really asking for parody here-just “quotes” that people might believe are real if they didn’t know any better.
“it is bad taste to name a public work after a living man.”
-FDR, private conversation at the Hoover (Boulder) Dam ceremony.
I always invite the missionaries in for a drink. ~Dorothy Parker
Okay, I took liberties with the last two. The first two, I must defend. R.O. did enjoy a tipple or four at parties (I read his biography). R.F. did his share of womanizing and (in)famously tried his hand at being a pick-up artist.
But I suppose you’d have to have read just enough about both, but not too much, to fit within your OP criteria.
Outstanding!
“Peafowl are a reflection of the soul.”
-Flannery O’Connor
“I don’t care what I said, that ain’t what I said!” -Yogi Berra
“That cherry tree was like that when I got here.” - George Washington
“I am certainly not as popular as Jesus or religion, as a thing, I am not just saying it” John Lennon
“People of Korea, I have returned!”-General Douglas MacArthur.
From Minneapolis on the Mississippi to New Orleans on the Mississippi, an iron curtain has descended on the Eastern Conference of the NBA.
Supposed quote from…?
From Stettin on the Baltic to Trieste on the Adriatic an Irroooonnnn Curtain has descended on Europe.
Churchill in a speech in Missouri iirc
And Churchill would have said this because…? Please see post #3-I’m look for quotes that people might believe could have actually come from famous people, but didn’t. For example, see posts 5 and 6. I wouldn’t find it unusual if those quotes were real, because they seem like something those people would have said.
Follow your dreams, you can reach your goals, I’m living proof -Hitler
“And what am I, chopped liver?” -Golda Meir
Yeah, Czarcasm, I can imagine that Feynman really might have said that, based on my reading of Surely You’re Joking… .
I could see that one, but definitely not the Socrates or Clinton quotes.
“You can shoot the man having the idea, but never the idea itself”. Gandhi
“Your gate is, indeed, stout. But I have an axe.” Harald Hardrada
“I’d like my rifle back now.” Hugh Glass
“Well, I wouldn’t do it again”. Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca
“It looked much like the rest of it. It was our presence which gave it meaning” Amundsen
“A rich man has many friends, but remains rich by being friend to few” Shakespeare.