Top 100 Misattributed Quotes
#1. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Isidore Of Seville
#2. Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.
Charles J. Sykes
#3. Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.
Laurence J. Peter
#4. It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.
Seneca.
#5. Finance people should remember Albert Einstein's wise words: "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Bjarte Bogsnes
#6. It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
Maurice Switzer
#7. Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are
Kurt Cobain
#8. Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Anonymous
#9. Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!
Frank Muir
#10. Give a girl the right shoes and she'll conquer the world.
Anonymous
#12. The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#13. You don't have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
#14. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
#15. Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#16. Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans.'
'John Lennon,' I say with a sigh. 'My mother is a huge fan.'
'So then you must know that every day, in every way, it's getting better.
Jamie Kain
#17. Have you ever noticed how 'What the hell' is always the right decision to make?
Terry Johnson
#18. The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
George Washington Burnap
#19. War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Anonymous
#20. Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Jonathan Swift
#21. No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
Rudyard Kipling
#23. Jesus promised his disciples three things - that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
William Barclay
#24. Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world.
Bette Midler
#25. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#26. One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.
Anthony Kiedis
#27. So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#28. To insist on a spiritual practice that served you in the past is to carry the raft on your back after you have crossed the river.
Gautama Buddha
#29. You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
Anne Lamott
#30. There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.
Albert Dietrich
#31. No one should brave the underworld alone.
Poe
#32. I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
S.G. Tallentyre
#33. Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Mother Teresa
#34. Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Henry Thomas Buckle
#35. They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
- written for the Pennsylvania Assembly in its Reply to the Governor, 11 November 1755
Benjamin Franklin
#36. Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaining it.
Georges Bataille
#37. True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does
Torquato Tasso
#39. Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn - and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie
#40. Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
Thomas Fuller
#41. It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.
Leon C. Megginson
#42. Common sense is what tells us the earth is flat.
Stuart Chase
#43. First I brush my teeth and then I sharpen my tongue.
Oscar Levant
#44. Dr. Suess said: 'Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened..'
I tell my dates: 'Don't cry because it happened, smile because it's over
Josh Stern
#45. Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
Allen Saunders
#46. There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit.
Ronald Reagan
#47. Diamonds are a girl's best friend.
Jule Styne
#51. America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#52. You never know what you have till you've lost it.
Alyson Noel
#55. Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.
Lloyd Shearer
#58. Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
John Dryden
#59. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa
#60. The past is a pebble in my shoe.
Poe
#61. For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Sam Levenson
#62. I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die
M.T.
#63. Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.
Darryl Anka
#64. I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Anonymous
#65. An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise
James Howell
#66. Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature.
Emmett F. Fields
#67. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
Anonymous
#69. In the first act get your principal character up a tree; in the second act, throw stones at him; in the third, get him down gracefully.
Anonymous
#70. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
Tom Waits
#71. Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
Paul Terry
#73. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
Evans G. Valens
#74. The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society - and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding.
William H. Whyte
#75. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry Truman
#76. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Ludwig Boltzmann
#77. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
Lao-Tzu
#78. Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Charles J. Sykes
#79. All descriptions of reality are temporary hypotheses.
Gautama Buddha
#80. Give a girl the right shoes and she will conquer the world.
Anonymous
#81. If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
J.K. Rowling
#82. The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
Henri Bergson
#83. Don't walk in front of me ... I may not follow
Don't walk behind me ... I may not lead
Walk beside me ... just be my friend
Albert Camus
#84. Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.
Francis Bacon
#85. If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
George Bernard Shaw
#86. Aging is a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
Anonymous
#87. But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.
Stephen R. Covey
#89. Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation - the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.
Peter De Vries
#91. Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!
Vicki Corona
#92. If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#93. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.
Sam Levenson
#94. If I could live again - I will travel light,
If I could live again - I'll try to work bare feet
at the beginning of spring till
the end of autumn,
I'll ride more carts,
I'll watch more sunrises ...
Jorge Luis Borges
#95. I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer
Douglas Adams
#96. Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
Brian Tracy
#97. A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#100. I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.
Lewis Carroll
