Widely Misattributed Quotes

#1. The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

George Washington Burnap

#2. Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.

Paul Stamets

#3. Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.

Twyla Tharp

#4. The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.

Gary Keller

#5. The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart - hearts are made to be broken - but that it turns one's heart to stone.

Oscar Wilde

#6. That's what happens when people get too serious. Feelings get hurt. Hearts get broken. Some people never learn. Don't get serious. It's my number one rule.

Amy Plum

#7. 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

#8. The very idea of having children brings out this deep revulsion in me.

Valeria Lukyanova

#9. I'm convinced Apple has been doing the core/clock speed architecture right, while other OEMS are more caught up in this core count race that isn't really going anywhere.

Marques Brownlee

#10. Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

Emile M. Cioran

#11. Development is an endurance exercise with incremental improvements.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#12. A learned man is not learned in all things; but a sufficient man is sufficient throughout, even to ignorance itself.

Michel De Montaigne

#13. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

#14. Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!

Vicki Corona

#16. Florence has a passion for books. When she saw the one she was seeking, she would recognize it, as if the volume had belonged to her in a previous life.

Lily Koppel

#17. Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.

F. Sionil Jose

#18. Women in general want to be loved for what they are and men for what they accomplish.

Theodor Reik

#19. We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps, but we have not done so; instead, we have drifted. And that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.

Bill Clinton

#20. The more a man judges, the less he loves

Honore De Balzac