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Can anyone verify the exact wording of this quote, and if it is actually from A.A. Milne rather than Disney or (worse) Pinterest? "As soon as I saw you I knew an adventure was going to happen."
Lynne wrote: "Can anyone verify the exact wording of this quote, and if it is actually from A.A. Milne rather than Disney or (worse) Pinterest? "As soon as I saw you I knew an adventure was going to happen.""The closest I can find is from the original Winnie-the-Pooh. We have Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look Ready for Anything.
The QotD version
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/5051...
and the inevitable "other one" (and probably a few others as well)
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9721...
are both seemingly wrong.
Sorry, I wasn't sure how to use this forum. Thanks very much for your help.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/8405...https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2694...
these two should be merged, I guess. The one with less likes should stay imo, it's from the first English edition of the book.
September 20, 2016Upton Sinclair
“I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.”
QotD:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
How about adding the source, The Jungle?
January 2, 2017Isaac Asimov
"Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in."
QotD
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/6672...
Not by Asimov. This is from the Commencement Speech that Alan Alda gave in 1980 at Connecticut College.
From the Connecticut College website:
http://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/cg...
The Alan Alda version of the quote on Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2736...
January 18, 2017A.A. Milne, attributed to Winnie-the-Pooh
"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
QotD
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/2998...
Another wrong one. It is certainly not in Winnie-the-Pooh or any other Winnie-the-Pooh collection.
The QuoteInvestigator finds references to the quotation going back long before any Winnie-the-Pooh books and zero evidence that A.A. Milne ever used the expression.
February 14, 2017Robert A. Heinlein from Stranger in a Strange Land
"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
QotD
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4964...
The quote is accurate but it is probably worth pointing out that it only appears in editions of Stranger in a Strange Land which were published BEFORE 1991 when the uncut, "improved" edition was issued without this quote. Anyone dashing off to Amazon to buy the book on the basis of the amazing nature of this quotation will be disappointed.
This brief section from Wikquote explains it:
The edited first edition of 1961 (FE) contains some memorable quotes that are not in the longer "Uncut" ACE/Putnam edition of 1991 (UC), based on his original manuscripts, because a few significant lines were actually added, rather than trimmed down, during the editing process of the first edition.
And, the blurb on the QotD has Strangers in a Strange Land which is wrong.
February 20, 2017Pierre Boulle
"There's always some further action to take"
QotD
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
An appropriate quotation. How about adding the source, The Bridge Over the River Kwai?
March 14, 2017Sylvia Beach
“I am a citizen of the world.”
QotD
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
This precise quotation is usually attributed to Diogenes the Cynic, an ancient Greek oddball who died over two thousand years before Sylvia Beach was born.
June 13, 2017W.B. Yeats
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
QotD
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7986...
Not by Yeats. It is a paraphrase of the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting by Plutarch.
June 18, 2017Mark Twain
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
QotD
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes_of_t...
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7846...
Needs to have attributed no source added. At the very least. Twains father died when Twain was 11 years old so he never knew his father at age 14 let alone 21. Nothing resembling the QotD appears in his writings.
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This website http://www.ligotti.net/showthread.php... states that its from "Essays and Epistles" (1967), but I don't have any way of checking because I'm not sure it is translated in English. This is a quite famous quote among Antinatalist though... "
Looks like it might be from To Be a Human Being. I've also used a different translation which makes more sense (to me, at least) than the original one.
Goodreads is full of "famous quotes" that have nothing whatsoever to do with the person they are usually attributed to.