Misattribution Of Quotes & Sayings

Since politicians and bureaucrats can rarely sign real contracts, the best way to prove you'll do something later is to do it now — Garett Jones

Remember when your dream was just an idea; never forget when nobody could see what you saw, when there was no win in sight. — Bidemi Mark-Mordi

We never lose, either we win, or we learn. — Unknown

[An example of misattribution:]

If you don't know the source of a quote,
you can always make it sound better by attributing it to me.

- Mark Twain — Jakub Marian

All thrones should be made of ice, I think.

Sit on that numb arse, sinking down and down, with the puddle of dissolution getting ever wider around you. Sit, dear ruler, and tell me all your grand designs. — Steven Erikson

I am my own main rival. — Dayron Robles

Every road has dangers, but not every road has obvious dangers! Watch out the hidden ones! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

During my first year as a pastor I performed funerals for 50 church members - and they were the wrong ones. — Roy Bell

I think we spend too much on K-12 education a.k.a. teachers' salaries. It's the only industry where you never see any productivity increases. — Peter Brimelow

Like every Canadian, I have been taught that one of the most important functions of art is to supply and elaborate the myths and narratives of nationhood. — Miriam Toews

Achieving the right to basic education for all is thus one of the biggest moral challenges of our times. — Koichiro Matsuura

Frank Lowy is an institution in Australian sport but judging by this decision he might be visiting a different kind of institution. He has brought the game into disrepute. The sport should not be run by dictators like him. — Clive Palmer

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits. — Anna Quindlen

The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people. — Marianne Williamson

Fighting beside Bucky was a bit like guarding the back of a rampaging bear, but it was a role Tobias had played a hundred times back in school. For all his mild manners, Buckingham Penner was a full-steam-ahead kind of fighter with little regard for sneak attacks from behind. — Emma Jane Holloway

I like to dream about Portugal, and it's less easy when you are there. — Maria De Medeiros

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport. — Chris Evert