Often Misattributed Quotes

#1. Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.

Benjamin Franklin

#2. Fiction Is My Addiction

Dr. Seuss

#3. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Pierre Dos Utt

#4. 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

#5. Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

Benjamin Franklin Wade

#6. We are all broken - that's how the light gets in.

Ernest Hemingway,

#7. You never know what you have till you've lost it.

Alyson Noel

#8. I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.

Anonymous

#9. I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

Lewis Carroll

#10. Great wits are to madness near allied
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

John Dryden

#11. When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Theodore Roosevelt

#12. A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#13. Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

Brian Tracy

#14. I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer

Douglas Adams

#15. Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

C.S. Lewis

#16. Before you act, listen.
Before you react, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.

William Arthur Ward

#17. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

Mother Teresa

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.

Evans G. Valens

#21. Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

Marthe Troly-Curtin

#22. Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

Paul Terry

#23. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

Tom Waits

#24. 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

#25. This life's hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.

George V. Higgins

#26. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Anonymous

#27. 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

#28. An acre of performance is worth the whole Land of promise

James Howell

#29. America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#30. 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

#31. I think resentment is when you take the poison and wait for the other person to die

M.T.

#32. 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

#33. The past is a pebble in my shoe.

Poe

#34. Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.

Mother Teresa