# 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:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [July 31, 2023, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/61 "2023-07-31T04:49:34Z")
> [@Peter2](#): > > ActualIy 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. Please repost that. You appear to have been going through a tunnel. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/62 "2023-07-31T07:24:01Z")
[![](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53083179381_cc2c4c1022_z.jpg) ](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53083179381_cc2c4c1022_z.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/63 "2023-07-31T07:27:26Z")
![](https://media.tenor.com/ZiLugTiVQNgAAAAC/the-more-you-know.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2023, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/64 "2023-09-28T12:43:57Z")
Now ten years, and it still hasn’t caught on. ☹ ---
**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:** [August 18, 2026, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/65 "2026-08-18T19:27:54Z")
You are all correct! Bob Marley did not write it! I did…Unfortunately It was stolen off of my Facebook account under a note I wrote several years ago. I am not a poet, I am just a working mom that was daydreaming… LOL… so sorry for not using proper paragraphs etc. - Karen Governale ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2026, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/66 "2026-08-19T10:36:55Z")
Welcome back ! \[1\] * * * 1. John Lennon ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/67 "2026-08-20T03:24:14Z")
The Snopes link you posted a few years back about how you were the original creator of that quote doesn’t seem to work, and the only thing in Snopes right now about Bob Marley quotes is something else entirely. Can you provide a current link that supports your claim? BTW, the only thing I can find on the internet linking your name to that quote was a Reddit posting saying that you made the claim twice in this very thread. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/68 "2026-08-20T10:19:42Z")
That snopes link looks like it was a link to the now defunct message boards, so it was probably never an actual snopes article as such… ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2026, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343/69 "2026-08-20T16:27:47Z")
That’s sort of like posting an ad in a newspaper, and then saying that any claim in that ad is valid because it was published in a newspaper. Sometimes context matters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fucking-fake-quotes-on-the-internet/665343.md?page=3)