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Percy
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Message 1 of 26 (544898)
01-29-2010 9:30 AM


The most famous thing Abraham Lincoln never said is, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." If you scrounge around the Internet lyou can find out this is true, something I did several years ago.
In his signature Hawkes Nightmare quotes Einstein saying, "Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not so sure about the former." To me it just didn't sound like Einstein. I searched the Internet for about an hour trying to find the source (this quote is very, very common) and was unsuccessful, but neither could I find any claims the quote was false.
I'd like to use this thread for two purposes:
  • List famous quotes that famous people never said.
  • List famous quotes that you suspect some famous person never said but you can't prove it.
--Percy
Edited by Percy, : Grammar.

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Percy
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Message 11 of 26 (544987)
01-30-2010 8:46 AM
Reply to: Message 8 by Granny Magda
01-29-2010 2:50 PM


Granny Magda writes:
There is a page on Snopes for more dubious quotations;
Questionable Quotes Archives | Snopes.com
I only looked at the first quote, but it's a doozy:
Muhammad Ali to a stewardess on an airplane: "Superman don't need no seatbelt."
Stewardess: "Superman don't need no airplane, either."
I only looked at one quote because a single click brought up two ad pages, even though I have pop-ups disabled.
--Percy

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