# Fucking fake quotes on the internet **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 4, 2013, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343 "2013-08-04T19:14:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/41 "2013-08-05T16:50:54Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > The one that grinds my gonads is the list floating about the Interwebs supposedly written by George Carlin. > > Yeah, that sounds exactly like something Carlin would have written. :rolleyes: Snopes belives that belongs to [Larry Miller](http://www.larrymillerhumor.com/). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/42 "2013-08-07T01:48:55Z")
> [@MoodIndigo1](#): > > Usual sources fail me. Try this source. [Quote Investigator] ([http://quoteinvestigator.com/](http://quoteinvestigator.com/)). They’re also on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/QuoteResearch). ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/43 "2013-08-07T02:03:40Z")
> [@](#): > > I am not a witch. -Mitt Romney. ---
**Author:** ![Enderw24](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ba9def/32.png) [@Enderw24](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enderw24)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/44 "2013-08-07T14:08:10Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > “Use the force, Harry.” > > - Gandalf –Michael Scott ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/45 "2013-08-07T18:04:15Z")
> [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](#): > > “Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” > > - Jesus of Nazereth " Jesus saves. Moses invests. " - Henny Youngman ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/46 "2013-08-07T18:24:48Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > I can say that it is likely to be a real quote from Bob Marley. The same guy who wrote “De more people smoke herb, de more Babylon fall”? OK, maybe. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/47 "2013-08-07T23:35:16Z")
[quote=“GuanoLad, post:42, topic:665343”] Try this source. > [@](#): > > ([http://quoteinvestigator.com/](http://quoteinvestigator.com/)). They’re also on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/QuoteResearch). this guy’s a linguist. He’s on my listserve. Totally the best around. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/48 "2013-08-08T02:35:37Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > this guy’s a linguist. He’s on my listserve. Totally the best around. Thank you both, GuanoLad and samclem, for the information. Thanks to everyone else for the laughs. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kareng](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kareng/32/21689_2.png) [@kareng](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kareng)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2016, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/49 "2016-01-14T22:27:09Z")
You are absolutely correct Sir! Bob Marley did NOT write this love quote. I did. Years ago while sitting on my couch! I’m honored that the world loves it and thinks he did write it but the fact is I did! It’s actually amusing how it was taken off my Facebook page and circulated for years with his name on it! Thank you for questioning this. Just thought you’d be happy to know you were right. 🙂 This guy nailed it in his investigative work. Check it out. [http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=90419](http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=90419) I am a 38 year old woman who is a huge romantic and yes… I have a desk job and work long hours. Long enough for me to write great things like this 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kareng](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kareng/32/21689_2.png) [@kareng](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kareng)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/50 "2016-01-15T01:11:18Z")
YES! I wrote in years ago and put it under my “notes” on Facebook. Someone must have taken it and posted it on the Internet. 5 years later. Here we are and everyone thinks Bob Marley wrote it. He didn’t. I did one day while sitting on my couch. Mystery solved. It’s kind of amusing and at the same time frustrating to know something that came from my heart is making its rounds with someone else’s name on it! ~ Karen Governale ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/51 "2016-01-15T01:38:45Z")
There’s a bullshit one about Steve Jobs making the rounds right now. It would be nice to think he repudiated his wealth and achievements on his deathbed, but how dumb do you have to be to believe that? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/52 "2016-01-15T01:45:20Z")
Welcome to our world, **kareng**. Whenever somebody quotes one of our signed Staff Reports they usually attribute it to Cecil Adams. My wife claims origination of, “A man without a god is like a fish without a bicycle,” which is usually misquoted and misattributed. First posted on a ladies room wall in about 1973. She might’ve stolen it. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/53 "2016-01-15T03:21:13Z")
> [@kareng](#): > > You are absolutely correct Sir! Bob Marley did NOT write this love quote. I did. Years ago while sitting on my couch! Congrats, but I’m not sure where to send my voluntary “quote residuals” check… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/54 "2016-01-15T07:55:04Z")
> [@kareng](#): > > YES! I wrote in years ago and put it under my “notes” on Facebook. Someone must have taken it and posted it on the Internet. 5 years later. Here we are and everyone thinks Bob Marley wrote it. He didn’t. I did one day while sitting on my couch. Mystery solved. It’s kind of amusing and at the same time frustrating to know something that came from my heart is making its rounds with someone else’s name on it! ~ Karen Governale Please accept my apology for saying that your quote was too long for me to bother reading. I try not to be dismissive and insulting to my fellow Dopers. As a general rule. ---
**Author:** ![Plumpudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Plumpudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plumpudding)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/55 "2016-01-15T09:52:15Z")
Its those damn liberals changing “HIS” words! jeb!? hand me a bible cruz. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2016, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/56 "2016-01-15T14:15:34Z")
An entire section of the Monticello website is devoted to [Spurious Quotations](https://www.monticello.org/site/jefferson/spurious-quotations) attributed to Thomas Jefferson. Many of the fakes were created for political motives. Others are smarmy motivational mottos from the mid-20th century. Mount Vernon has one page for [bogus Washington quotes](http://www.mountvernon.org/research-collections/digital-encyclopedia/article/spurious-quotations/)\*. Most of the bogus quotations are _nothing_ like a man born in the 18th century would say or write. All the works & letters of the Founders are freely available on the 'net. Grrrr… - A debate coach from long ago taught us that “quotation” is a noun; “quote” is a verb. ---
**Author:** ![Newtosite](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/newtosite/32/8623_2.png) [@Newtosite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Newtosite)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/57 "2016-01-16T06:32:09Z")
> [@kareng](#): > > YES! I wrote in years ago and put it under my “notes” on Facebook. Someone must have taken it and posted it on the Internet. 5 years later. Here we are and everyone thinks Bob Marley wrote it. He didn’t. I did one day while sitting on my couch. Mystery solved. It’s kind of amusing and at the same time frustrating to know something that came from my heart is making its rounds with someone else’s name on it! ~ Karen Governale I feel for you. I sold an inspirational quote for a poster in 1992, and years later another company stole it and published it on a magnet with the wrong attribution. They admitted their mistake…but that quote has now gone viral online, with the other guy’s name associated with it. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![IDtenT\_Error](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@IDtenT\_Error](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IDtenT_Error)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/58 "2016-01-16T18:56:36Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > Blame Google for some of that. > > _A dog never sleeps on Sunday._ > Albert Einstein > > Give Google a few days and I’ll bet that quote pops up in a search somewhere. > > Disclamer. Einstein never said that as far as I know. It’s been two years and change, and this thread is still the only Google result for that quote. Nice try, though. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/59 "2016-01-16T19:21:08Z")
My personal unfavorite: [George Washington on gun rights](http://static.politifact.com.s3.amazonaws.com/politifact%2Fphotos%2FGeorge_Washington_meme_1.jpg) Yeah, no. He never said that. ---
**Author:** ![Peter2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Peter2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter2)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/60 "2023-07-31T04:08:54Z")
Actually it’s been confirmed on the interweb that it goes all the way back to Aesop’s tales - indeed, and all th at hi sn’ t in, tails. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343.md?page=4)