Misattributed Quotes & Sayings

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it. — Georges Bataille

To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river. — Gautama Buddha

Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson."
"Lake and Palmer?"
"Ralph and Waldo. — Louise Penny

Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation - the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline. — Peter De Vries

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on — Theodore Roosevelt

Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. — Bette Midler

An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise — James Howell

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could. — Charles J. Sykes

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others. — Sam Levenson

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny. — C.S. Lewis

This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid. — George V. Higgins

I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. — Anonymous

Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..'
I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over — Josh Stern

Don't walk in front of me ... I may not follow
Don't walk behind me ... I may not lead
Walk beside me ... just be my friend — Albert Camus

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are — Kurt Cobain

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. — Mother Teresa

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

You never know what you have till you've lost it. — Alyson Noel

In the first act get your principal character up a tree; in the second act, throw stones at him; in the third, get him down gracefully. — Anonymous

Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love. — Mother Teresa

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory. — Henri Bergson

The earth has its music for those who will listen — Reginald Vincent Holmes

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time. — Herbert Bayard Swope

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Write drunk; edit sober. — Peter De Vries

Finance people should remember Albert Einstein's wise words: "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. — Bjarte Bogsnes

Before you act, listen.
Before you react, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try. — William Arthur Ward

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away! — Vicki Corona

Fiction Is My Addiction — Dr. Seuss

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live. — Maurice Maeterlinck

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours. — Lewis Carroll

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting. — Brian Tracy

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer — Douglas Adams

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde

Meaning that history is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books - books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?' " He smiled. "By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account." Sophie had never thought of it that way. — Dan Brown

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. — Anonymous

Tolerance, which is one form of love of neighbor, must manifest itself not only in our personal relations, but also in the arena of society as well. In the world of opinion and politics, tolerance is that virtue by which liberated minds conquer the evils of bigotry and hatred. Tolerance implies more than forbearance or the passive enduring of ideas different from our own. Properly conceived, tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them. Tolerance quickens our appreciation and increases our respect for our neighbor's point of view. It goes even further; it assumes a militant aspect when the rights of an opponent are assailed. Voltaire's dictum, "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," is for all ages and places the perfect utterance of the tolerant ideal. — Joshua Loth Liebman

Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs. — Charles J. Sykes

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it. — Maurice Switzer

Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly. — Mother Teresa

Aging is a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter. — Anonymous

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. — Tom Waits

A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still — Dale Carnegie

We are all broken - that's how the light gets in. — Ernest Hemingway,

If I could live again - I will travel light,
If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feet
at the beginning of spring till
the end of autumn,
I'll ride more carts,
I'll watch more sunrises ... — Jorge Luis Borges

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results. — Narcotics Anonymous

If you want to know what God thinks about money just look at the people He gives it to. — Alexander Pope

You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed. — L.M. Montgomery

We read to know we're not alone. — William Nicholson

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise. — Stephen R. Covey

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. — Mark Twain

There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for. — Albert Dietrich

When EVIL men make bad laws, righteous men disobey them."
Pastor Butch Paugh — Tarrin P. Lupo

So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees. — Arthur Schopenhauer

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. — Robert Orben

Always speak politely to an enraged dragon. — Steven Brust

Well-behaved women seldom make history. — Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

I recall the story of the philosopher and the theologian... The two were engaged in disputation and the theologian used the old quip about a philosopher resembling a blind man, in a dark room, looking for a black cat - which wasn't there. 'That may be,' said the philosopher, 'but a theologian would have found it. — Julian Huxley

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead. — Hans Christian Andersen

Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics. — Darryl Anka

It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing. — Seneca.

There are three types of lies
lies, damn lies, and statistics. — Benjamin Disraeli

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. — Anonymous

All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses. — Gautama Buddha

The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits. — Alexandre Dumas-fils

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. — Anthony G. Oettinger

Albert Einstein once said that 'insanity' was 'Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting to achieve different results'. He was a clever chap, that Einstein fella. And, according to him, I must have been insane. Because I kept on working hard, and I kept on expecting to be rewarded, even though my hard work had never been rewarded before. I didn't have any evidence to suggest that I'd be rewarded. It wasn't a rational belief. It all came down to optimism. Blind, debilitating optimism. — Joss Sheldon

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. — James Bovard

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. — Evans G. Valens

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. — Oliver Goldsmith

Those who stand for nothing fall for everything. — Alexander Hamilton

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit. — Ronald Reagan

No one should brave the underworld alone. — Poe

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. — Dale Carnegie

First I brush my teeth and then I sharpen my tongue. — Oscar Levant

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans. — Allen Saunders

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? — Frank Scully

Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.'
'John Lennon,' I say with a sigh. 'My mother is a huge fan.'
'So then you must know that every day, in every way, it's getting better. — Jamie Kain

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. — Leon C. Megginson

The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society - and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding. — William H. Whyte

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires. — Ronald Wright

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Isidore Of Seville

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. — Anonymous

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company. — Benjamin Franklin Wade

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away. — Paul Terry

There ain't no such thing as a free lunch. — Pierre Dos Utt

God made the world for the delight of human beings
if we could see His goodness everywhere, His concern for us, His awareness of our needs: the phone call we've waited for, the ride we are offered, the letter in the mail, just the little things He does for us throughout the day. As we remember and notice His love for us, we just begin to fall in love with Him because He is so busy with us
you just can't resist Him. I believe there's no such thing as luck in life, it's God's love, it's His. — Mother Teresa

Pain is certain, suffering is optional. — Anonymous

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge. — Daniel J. Boorstin

True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does — Torquato Tasso

You can't buy happiness — Kurt Cobain

Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me! — Frank Muir

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. — Henry Thomas Buckle

You can't go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending. — James R. Sherman

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Have you ever noticed how 'What the hell' is always the right decision to make? — Terry Johnson

Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat. — Stuart Chase

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these. — Lloyd Shearer