Churchill never said ““Don’t talk to me about Naval Tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash,”“ but he did say he wished he did.
Mark Twain, apparently never said “Golf is a good walk spoiled”, but the originator of that quote is disputed. Nor did he say ““The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”.
Anyone have more?
“Diplomacy is saying ‘nice doggy’ while you’re looking for a rock.”
Not Will arogers
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Mark Twain was wrong when he said Disraeli said it. So does that mean everybody on the Internet who says Twain originated it are right?
Did he really say, “So all of you be damned, we can’t have heaven crammed”?
Gandhi never actually said, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” Nor, apparently, did he say, “I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.” He may have said something like that though.
Good one-
Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear Watson”.
Julius Caesar probably never said " and you Brutus?".
Darth Vader never said “Luke, I am your father!”.
And, of course, Bogie never said “Play it again, Sam.”
I believe that it is also wrongly attributed to Gandhi that, when asked about Western Civilization, he replied “I think it would be a very good idea.”
Dr. Seuss never said “Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
John McCain never sang “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran!” (He did get about three words in before trailing off.)
I like the QuoteInvestigator site. I have contributed information to several of their articles.
They have articles on several of the sayings listed in this thread.
“Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans” always seems to attributed to John Lennon in 1980. In fact it was coined at least 23 years earlier by Allen Saunders.
“Without the dark, we never see the stars” is not a quote from Edgar Allan Poe.
Samuel Beckett never said “There’s never an end for the sea.”
At least there are still some quotes we can rely on as authentic
“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting its shoes on.”
Not Mark Twain
The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle wasn’t actually created by Albert Einstein.
Einstein never said the “definition of insanity” quote either.
I keep hearing “The blood of the Covenant is thicker than the water of the womb” is the original version of “Blood is thicker than water” but the first quote is more modern invention.