While researching my earlier piece, I discovered that the famous Stalin quote about capitalists selling the rope used to hang them was probably not actually said by him. This got me thinking about other famous
While researching my earlier piece, I discovered that the famous Stalin quote about capitalists selling the rope used to hang them was probably not actually said by him. This got me thinking about other famous
How about:
“Play it again, Sam” – Humphrey Bogart
People still argue this but:
“I am a Berliner” – JFK
In Berlin, “ein Berliner” typically refers to a jelly donut.
Haha, can you imagine the quotes if he gave speeches in Hamburg or Frankfurt? Or Vienna for that matter. 🙂
“We need to turn back some of the creeping, un-Pennsylvanian and sometimes un-American traits that are coming into some of our politics,” Te-RAY-zah Heinz Kerry
OH Damn- She really did say it!
Mark Twain never said:
“Everyone talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
Nor:
“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”
Nor about a dozen other things often attributed to him. See here.
“You dirty rat”
James Cagney
“Elemantary, my dear Watson.” —something Sherlock Holmes never said, not even once, in 4 novels and 56 short stories by A. C. Doyle.
I think the “beam me up..” was originally James Trafficant.
“Nice guys finish last” never said by Leo Durocher.
“Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door”
does not appear anywhere in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s published works. Ironic, since it’s probably the best-known quote attributed to him. Elbert Hubbard, the founder of the Roycrofters, claimed to have said it first.
I voted for the war
I voted against the war