Hemingway Didn't Say That Quotes

“You may be shocked by how fragile information is, and I fear it is only getting worse. Each transmission of a quote can sometimes seem to produce cracks in the truth.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“Artemus Ward: Respected Sir—My wife was afflicted with the pipsywipsy in the head for nearly eight years. The doctors all gave her up. But in a fortunate moment she went to one of your lectures, and commenced recovering very rapidly. She is now in perfect health. We like your lectures very much. Please send me a box of them. They are purely vegetable. Send me another five dollar bill and I’ll write you another certificate twice as long as this. Yours,”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“Mark Twain, Albert Einstein, Marilyn Monroe, Winston Churchill, Dorothy Parker, and Yogi Berra are quotation superstars. Personas of this type are so vibrant and attractive that they become hosts for quotations they never uttered. A remark formulated by a lesser-known figure is attached to a famous host. The relationship is symbiotic and often enhances the popularity of both the host and the quotation.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“In the struggle for survival, the cutest win out at the expense of the less cute because they appeal more to celebrities and, through them, to a live television audience.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“May you live in interesting times.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“In the years after the death of Confucius circa 479 BC, a compilation of his teachings and aphorisms was constructed and is now referred to as the Analects. One passage instructs a benevolent ruler on how to rule—the potentate should select tasks for his populace that are appropriate and constructive, and these proper choices should result in subjects who have no reason to be unhappy and complain.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“In 1996, as discussed earlier, Gates denied that he made the remark. He also questioned the existence of any solid reference for the statement:”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“Interestingly, over a long period, a popular expression can shift ascriptions multiple times as the fame of individuals expands and contracts. You may be shocked by how fragile information is, and I fear it is only getting worse.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. In”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“FOR SALE: BABY SHOES, NEVER WORN.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“How did I begin investigating the dubious origins of familiar quotations? I will tell you: In the 1990s I developed an enthusiasm for electronic books.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“Once, when asked to give his definition of genius, Mr. Edison replied: “Two per cent. is genius and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.” At another time, when the argument that genius was inspiration was brought before him, he said: “Bah! Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.” Also,”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“In 1910 a pithy form of the saying appeared in the Chicago Daily Tribune:8 Burke said, “When bad men combine, good men must organize.” In”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“In 1770 the Irish statesman and philosopher Burke wrote about the need for good men to associate to oppose the cabals of bad men. The second sentence in the excerpt below is listed in multiple quotation references and shares some points of similarity to the saying under investigation, but it is clearly dissimilar.5 No man, who is not inflamed by vain-glory into enthusiasm, can flatter himself that his single, unsupported, desultory, unsystematic endeavours are of power to defeat the subtle designs and united Cabals of ambitious citizens. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. In”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways. I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Jefferson trembled when he thought of slavery and remembered that God is just. Ere long all America will tremble. The”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“QI believes that Theodore Parker should be credited with formulating this metaphor about historical progress, which was published in a collection of his sermons in 1853. By 1918 a concise version of the saying was being credited to Parker. In 1958 Martin Luther King Jr. included the expression in an article, but he placed the words in quotation marks to indicate that the adage was already in circulation. King apparently found the phrase attractive and included it in several of his speeches. Notes: In memoriam: Thanks to my brother Stephen, who asked about this saying.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“More than one hundred years before the citations above, in 1838, the American clergyman William Ellery Channing said the following:10 No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent. Notes:”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“In conclusion, Balzac did write a statement linking large fortunes to crime, but it was a nuanced remark about a subset of great fortunes. Over the years his expression has been dramatically simplified, and no single person can be credited with the construction of the modern concise and forceful version. Notes:”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“Note that Balzac did not pronounce a general rule that larceny was at the root of all large fortunes. However, the simplified statement that is popular in modern times is arguably more provocative and consequently more memorable. The”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“Here is the original in French from a serialization of Le Père Goriot published in Revue de Paris in 1834:2 Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu’il a été proprement fait. Balzac published a series of interlinked novels called Comédie Humaine or The Human Comedy, and Le Père Goriot was part of this series. Eventually, all were translated into English. Here is a rendering of the statement above published in 1896:3 The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed. Here is another translation into English that was published in 1900:4 The secret of a great fortune made without apparent cause is soon forgotten, if the crime is committed in a respectable way. Note”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“The popular 1977 collection Peter’s Quotations: Ideas for Our Time by Laurence J. Peter, which happens to be the source of a great many misattributed quotations, it turns out,”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“Six Quotes to Get You Through Any Senior Exam. Use Them Wisely”:8 Indian summer is like a woman, ripe, hotly passionate but fickle. —Grace Metalious Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal. —Lionel Trilling I think my favorite weapon is a twenty-dollar bill. —Raymond Chandler The statement credited to Grace”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest. In”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“Using an Internet search engine to learn more about these sayings can be both a revelatory and exasperating experience. Search engines contain link after link to websites with faulty information, repetitive text, and incomplete data. Moving beyond this mélange of misinformation is nearly impossible for the average web user. It’s no wonder, then, that such mistakes are perpetuated and duplicated to the extreme. Many truth-seekers have struggled with the cacophony of conflicting information online; too often, accurate data is overwhelmed by inaccurate data.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“Satyagraha is peaceful. If words fail to convince the adversary perhaps purity, humility, and honesty will. The opponent must be “weaned from error by patience and sympathy,” weaned, not crushed; converted, not annihilated. Satyagraha”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“I think my favorite weapon is a twenty-dollar bill. —Raymond Chandler The”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“You may be shocked by how fragile information is, and I fear it is only getting worse.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“We can learn about it from exceptional people of our own culture, and from other cultures less destructive than ours. I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children who has undertaken to cherish it and do it no damage, not because he is duty-bound, but because he loves the world and loves his children . . ”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me. Therefore the poet brings his poem; the shepherd, his lamb; the farmer, corn; the miner, a stone; the painter, his picture; the girl, a handkerchief of her own sewing.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations

“To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.”
― Garson O'Toole, Hemingway Didn't Say That: The Truth Behind Familiar Quotations