[{"slug":"a-bird-doesnt-sing-because-it-has-an-answer-it-sings","q":"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song","n":"a bird doesnt sing because it has an answer it sings because it has a song","c":"disputed","real":"Joan Walsh Anglund","credited":"Maya Angelou","credit":"Actually Joan Walsh Anglund, not Maya Angelou. Original: \"A bird does not sing because he has an answer. He sings because he has a song.\" — A Cup of Sun (1967), p. 15.","cite":"Joan Walsh Anglund, A Cup of Sun: A Book of Poems (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1967), 15. Attribution history documented at Quote Investigator, \"A Bird Doesn't Sing Because It Has an Answer, It Sings Because It Has a Song,\" Dec. 3, 2015.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Joan Walsh Anglund — American children's-book author & poet. Theme: \"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-bird-doesnt-sing-because-it-has-an-answer-it-sings/"},{"slug":"a-book-must-be-the-axe-for-the-frozen-sea-within-us","q":"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us","n":"a book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us","c":"verified","real":"Franz Kafka","credited":"","credit":"Franz Kafka, letter to Oskar Pollak, 27 January 1904 (German: \"ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns\"; standard English translation by Richard & Clara Winston, 1977, reads \"inside us\")","cite":"Franz Kafka, letter to Oskar Pollak, 27 January 1904, in Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors, trans. Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Schocken Books, 1977). German original: \"ein Buch muß die Axt sein für das gefrorene Meer in uns.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Franz Kafka — Prague-born, German-language novelist & story writer. Theme: \"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-book-must-be-the-axe-for-the-frozen-sea-within-us/"},{"slug":"a-champion-is-defined-not-by-their-wins-but-by-how-they-can","q":"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall","n":"a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall","c":"verified","real":"Serena Williams","credited":"","credit":"Serena Williams, quoted in The National, 2012","cite":"Serena Williams, quoted in “The fall and rise of maturing Serena Williams,” The National, September 10, 2012.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Serena Williams — American tennis champion & 23-time Grand Slam singles winner. Theme: \"A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-champion-is-defined-not-by-their-wins-but-by-how-they-can/"},{"slug":"a-champion-is-someone-who-gets-up-when-they-cant","q":"A champion is someone who gets up when they can't","n":"a champion is someone who gets up when they cant","c":"attributed","real":"Jack Dempsey","credited":"","credit":"attributed to Jack Dempsey (widely credited; exact wording untraced to any primary source)","cite":"Earliest reliably documented in the related form: Grantland Rice, quoting Jack Dempsey, Book of Boxing, p. 299 (\"I had to get up. I was one of those hungry fighters.\"). The exact aphorism \"A champion is someone who gets up when they can't\" has no located primary source.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Jack Dempsey — American world heavyweight boxing champion, 1919–1926. Theme: \"A champion is someone who gets up when they can't\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-champion-is-someone-who-gets-up-when-they-cant/"},{"slug":"a-child-miseducated-is-a-child-lost","q":"A child miseducated is a child lost","n":"a child miseducated is a child lost","c":"attributed","real":"John F. Kennedy","credited":"John F. Kennedy","credit":"John F. Kennedy, attributed to the 1962 State of the Union Address (absent from the official text and recording; documented in a period printing)","cite":"John F. Kennedy, \"Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union,\" 11 January 1962. Exact wording documented in a period printing in Vital Speeches and Documents of the Day, Vol. 2 (1961); absent from the official delivered text and recording (per WIST Quotations).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John F. Kennedy — 35th U.S. President. Theme: \"A child miseducated is a child lost\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-child-miseducated-is-a-child-lost/"},{"slug":"a-constitution-should-be-short-and-obscure","q":"A constitution should be short and obscure","n":"a constitution should be short and obscure","c":"disputed","real":"Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord","credited":"Napoleon Bonaparte","credit":"Misattributed to Napoleon Bonaparte — the words were Talleyrand's 1802 quip to Roederer, recorded in Roederer's Œuvres, vol. III, p. 428.","cite":"Pierre-Louis Roederer, Œuvres du Comte P. L. Roederer, vol. III (Paris: Firmin Didot, 1854), p. 428; recounted in John Holland Rose, The Life of Napoleon I (London: George Bell & Sons, 1902).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord — French diplomat & foreign minister under Napoleon. Theme: \"A constitution should be short and obscure\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-constitution-should-be-short-and-obscure/"},{"slug":"a-democracy-is-nothing-more-than-mob-rule-where-fifty-one","q":"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine","n":"a democracy is nothing more than mob rule where fifty one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty nine","c":"disputed","real":"Thomas Jefferson","credited":"Thomas Jefferson","credit":"Misattributed to Thomas Jefferson. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello) lists this \"mob rule / 51 percent\" line as a spurious quotation with no source in Jefferson's writings; it appears in print only from the 2000s.","cite":"\"Democracy is nothing more than mob rule… (Spurious Quotation),\" Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia, Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello). Earliest documented Jefferson attribution: a 28 September 2002 letter to the Tampa Tribune; three books spread the wording widely in 2004.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Jefferson — 3rd U.S. President & author of the Declaration of Independence. Theme: \"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-democracy-is-nothing-more-than-mob-rule-where-fifty-one/"},{"slug":"a-fear-of-weapons-is-a-sign-of-retarded-sexual-and","q":"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity","n":"a fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity","c":"disputed","real":"Don B. Kates Jr. (his sentence, inverted)","credited":"Sigmund Freud","credit":"Misattributed to Sigmund Freud. The line appears in no work by Freud; it is an internet paraphrase of a sentence in Don B. Kates Jr.'s 1990 essay \"Guns, Murders, and the Constitution.\"","cite":"Don B. Kates Jr., \"Guns, Murders, and the Constitution: A Realistic Assessment of Gun Control\" (San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy, 1990); cf. Sigmund Freud & D. E. Oppenheim, \"Dreams in Folklore\" (New York: International Universities Press, 1958). Quote not present in Freud; earliest documented as a misattribution.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Don B. Kates Jr. — d. 2016. Theme: \"A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-fear-of-weapons-is-a-sign-of-retarded-sexual-and/"},{"slug":"a-free-people-ought-not-only-to-be-armed-and-disciplined","q":"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them","n":"a free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them","c":"disputed","real":"George Washington","credited":"George Washington","credit":"Only the opening phrase is George Washington's, from his First Annual Message to Congress, 8 January 1790. The \"sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them\" tail was added by W. Cleon Skousen in 1975 and later mis-credited to Washington. — Quotle.info","cite":"George Washington, \"First Annual Message to Congress,\" 8 January 1790, in The Papers of George Washington (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press); text at the Avalon Project, Yale Law School. Earliest documented expansion in W. Cleon Skousen's 1975 commentary, per Quote Investigator (12 January 2026).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of George Washington — First U.S. President & Commander-in-Chief. Theme: \"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-free-people-ought-not-only-to-be-armed-and-disciplined/"},{"slug":"a-friend-loveth-at-all-times-and-a-brother-is-born-for","q":"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity","n":"a friend loveth at all times and a brother is born for adversity","c":"verified","real":"King James Bible (Book of Proverbs)","credited":"","credit":"Proverbs 17:17, King James Version (1611).","cite":"Proverbs 17:17, in The Holy Bible, King James Version (1611; standard text, 1769 Blayney revision).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of King James Bible (Book of Proverbs) — King James Version, first published 1611. Theme: \"A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-friend-loveth-at-all-times-and-a-brother-is-born-for/"},{"slug":"a-government-big-enough-to-give-you-everything-you-want-is","q":"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have","n":"a government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have","c":"disputed","real":"Gerald R. Ford","credited":"Thomas Jefferson","credit":"Gerald R. Ford, \"Address to a Joint Session of the Congress,\" August 12, 1974 — not Thomas Jefferson, in whose writings no version of this line appears. The saying is older than Ford and of unknown authorship; its earliest known printing is Paul Harvey, Remember These Things (1952), unattributed. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Gerald R. Ford, \"Address to a Joint Session of the Congress,\" 12 August 1974, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, 1974 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office). Earliest known print of the saying in an earlier variant wording: Paul Harvey, Remember These Things (Chicago: Heritage Foundation, 1952), 57 — unattributed.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Gerald R. Ford — 38th President of the United States. Theme: \"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-government-big-enough-to-give-you-everything-you-want-is/"},{"slug":"a-grateful-mind-is-not-only-the-greatest-of-virtues-but-the","q":"A grateful mind is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the other virtues","n":"a grateful mind is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all the other virtues","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","credited":"","credit":"Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pro Plancio §80 (54 BC), trans. C. T. Ramage, Great Thoughts from Latin Authors (1884)","cite":"Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Pro Cn. Plancio, 80 (54 BC). Trans. Craufurd Tait Ramage, Great Thoughts from Latin Authors (Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1884), 32.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Tullius Cicero — Roman statesman, orator & philosopher. Theme: \"A grateful mind is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the other virtues\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-grateful-mind-is-not-only-the-greatest-of-virtues-but-the/"},{"slug":"a-hero-is-an-ordinary-individual-who-finds-the-strength-to","q":"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere","n":"a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere","c":"verified","real":"Christopher Reeve","credited":"","credit":"Christopher Reeve, Still Me (New York: Random House, 1998), p. 273. Provenance verified at quotle.info","cite":"Christopher Reeve, Still Me (New York: Random House, 1998), 273.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Christopher Reeve — American actor, director & disability-rights advocate. Theme: \"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-hero-is-an-ordinary-individual-who-finds-the-strength-to/"},{"slug":"a-life-spent-making-mistakes-is-not-only-more-honorable-but","q":"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing","n":"a life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing","c":"verified","real":"George Bernard Shaw","credited":"","credit":"George Bernard Shaw, \"Preface on Doctors,\" The Doctor's Dilemma (Brentano's, 1911)","cite":"Shaw, Bernard. The Doctor's Dilemma, with a Preface on Doctors. New York: Brentano's, 1911, pp. lxxxv–lxxxvi.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of George Bernard Shaw — Irish playwright, critic & Nobel laureate. Theme: \"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-life-spent-making-mistakes-is-not-only-more-honorable-but/"},{"slug":"a-little-knowledge-is-a-dangerous-thing","q":"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing","n":"a little knowledge is a dangerous thing","c":"disputed","real":"Alexander Pope","credited":"Alexander Pope (the real line)","credit":"Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711) — original wording: \"A little learning is a dang'rous thing.\"","cite":"Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (London, 1711), Part II, line 15: \"A little learning is a dang'rous thing.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Alexander Pope — English poet & satirist. Theme: \"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-little-knowledge-is-a-dangerous-thing/"},{"slug":"a-little-learning-is-a-dangerous-thing","q":"A little learning is a dangerous thing","n":"a little learning is a dangerous thing","c":"verified","real":"Alexander Pope","credited":"","credit":"Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (1711)","cite":"Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism (London: W. Lewis, 1711), Part II, lines 215–216.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Alexander Pope — English poet, satirist & translator. Theme: \"A little learning is a dangerous thing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-little-learning-is-a-dangerous-thing/"},{"slug":"a-long-habit-of-not-thinking-a-thing-wrong-gives-it-a","q":"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right","n":"a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right","c":"verified","real":"Thomas Paine","credited":"","credit":"Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776), Introduction","cite":"Thomas Paine, \"Introduction,\" in Common Sense (Philadelphia, 1776).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Paine — English-born American political philosopher & pamphleteer. Theme: \"A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-long-habit-of-not-thinking-a-thing-wrong-gives-it-a/"},{"slug":"a-man-of-genius-makes-no-mistakes-his-errors-are-volitional","q":"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery","n":"a man of genius makes no mistakes his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery","c":"verified","real":"James Joyce","credited":"","credit":"James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)","cite":"Joyce, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922, episode 9, \"Scylla and Charybdis.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of James Joyce — Irish novelist & poet. Theme: \"A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-man-of-genius-makes-no-mistakes-his-errors-are-volitional/"},{"slug":"a-man-sir-should-keep-his-friendship-in-constant-repair","q":"A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair","n":"a man sir should keep his friendship in constant repair","c":"verified","real":"Samuel Johnson","credited":"","credit":"— Samuel Johnson, recorded in James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)","cite":"James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (London: Charles Dilly, 1791), under the year 1755 — Johnson's remark to Sir Joshua Reynolds.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Samuel Johnson — English author, lexicographer & critic. Theme: \"A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-man-sir-should-keep-his-friendship-in-constant-repair/"},{"slug":"a-man-who-is-his-own-lawyer-has-a-fool-for-a-client","q":"A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client","n":"a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (an old law adage)","credited":"Abraham Lincoln","credit":"Anonymous legal proverb, in print by 1795 — often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"A Man Who Is His Own Lawyer Has a Fool for a Client,\" QuoteInvestigator.com, July 30, 2019. Earliest lawyer-specific wording documented in The British Critic (London, 1795), described there as an old law adage copied from an Italian proverb.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Anonymous — an old legal proverb — English/Italian legal proverb · popularly mis-credited to Lincoln. Theme: \"A man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-man-who-is-his-own-lawyer-has-a-fool-for-a-client/"},{"slug":"a-mathematician-is-a-blind-man-in-a-dark-room-looking-for-a","q":"A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there","n":"a mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isnt there","c":"disputed","real":"Origin unknown (anonymous)","credited":"Charles Darwin","credit":"Attributed to Charles Darwin, but unsupported — an anonymous 19th-century saying he never wrote (Quote Investigator).","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"A Blind Man in a Dark Room Looking for a Black Cat That Is Not There,\" quoteinvestigator.com, 15 February 2015; earliest documented metaphor in a Missouri newspaper, 1846; earliest Darwin citation in The American Mathematical Monthly, 1940 (itself doubtful).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Charles Darwin — English naturalist, author of On the Origin of Species. Theme: \"A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-mathematician-is-a-blind-man-in-a-dark-room-looking-for-a/"},{"slug":"a-moral-system-valid-for-all-is-basically-immoral","q":"A moral system valid for all is basically immoral","n":"a moral system valid for all is basically immoral","c":"disputed","real":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credited":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credit":"Paraphrase of Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil §221 (1886); wording from Curtis Cate, Friedrich Nietzsche: A Biography (2002)","cite":"Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, §221 (1886), trans. Helen Zimmern (New York: Macmillan, 1907). The popular epigram derives from Curtis Cate, Friedrich Nietzsche: A Biography (London: Hutchinson, 2002; Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2005).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Friedrich Nietzsche — German philosopher & philologist. Theme: \"A moral system valid for all is basically immoral\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-moral-system-valid-for-all-is-basically-immoral/"},{"slug":"a-patient-is-the-most-important-person-in-our-hospital-he","q":"A patient is the most important person in our hospital. He is not an interruption to our work, he is the purpose of it","n":"a patient is the most important person in our hospital he is not an interruption to our work he is the purpose of it","c":"disputed","real":"Kenneth B. Elliott (original \"customer\" wording)","credited":"Mahatma Gandhi","credit":"Not Gandhi. The line is a hospital rewording of Kenneth B. Elliott's 1941 customer-service creed (Studebaker, in 'Printers' Ink'); Gandhi attributions appeared only in the 1970s, decades after his 1948 death. — Quotle.info","cite":"Kenneth B. Elliott, interview, 'Printers' Ink: A Journal for Advertisers' (New York), May 1941 — earliest documented form (\"The customer is not an interruption of our work — he is the purpose of it\"), per Quote Investigator, \"The Customer is Not an Interruption in Our Work; He Is the Purpose of It\" (2 Aug 2012).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Kenneth B. Elliott — Vice-President in Charge of Sales, The Studebaker Corporation (1940s). Theme: \"A patient is the most important person in our hospital. He is not an interruption to our work, he is the purpose of it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-patient-is-the-most-important-person-in-our-hospital-he/"},{"slug":"a-penny-saved-is-a-penny-earned","q":"A penny saved is a penny earned","n":"a penny saved is a penny earned","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — a traditional English proverb","credited":"Benjamin Franklin","credit":"an anonymous English proverb; earliest known printing 1804 (Joseph Huddart, Swansea Harbour, p. 13), where it is already called \"that good old saying.\" Frequently misattributed to Benjamin Franklin, who instead wrote \"A penny saved is twopence clear\" in Poor Richard's Almanack (1737).","cite":"Joseph Huddart (the Elder), Swansea Harbour. Extracts from the [First] Report of J. H. … Shewing His Plan for the Improvement Thereof, Dated 1794 (1804), 13 — earliest documented appearance of the \"earned\" wording. Compare Benjamin Franklin, \"Hints for those that would be Rich,\" Poor Richard's Almanack (1737): \"A penny saved is twopence clear.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Benjamin Franklin — Printer, scientist, diplomat & Founding Father. Theme: \"A penny saved is a penny earned\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-penny-saved-is-a-penny-earned/"},{"slug":"a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words","q":"A picture is worth a thousand words","n":"a picture is worth a thousand words","c":"disputed","real":"Arthur Brisbane (popularized by Fred R. Barnard)","credited":"Confucius","credit":"Not Confucius. \"A picture is worth a thousand words\" is a 1920s American advertising slogan (Fred R. Barnard, Printers' Ink), deliberately mislabeled a \"Chinese proverb\"; an earlier form was voiced by Arthur Brisbane, c. 1911. — Quotle.info","cite":"Barnard, Fred R. Advertisement in Printers' Ink (8 December 1921; \"Chinese proverb\" version 10 March 1927). Earliest related wording: Arthur Brisbane, address to the Syracuse Advertising Men's Club, The Post-Standard, 28 March 1911. See Quote Investigator, \"A Picture Is Worth Ten Thousand Words\" (2022).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Fred R. Barnard — American advertising manager, Street Railways Advertising Co.. Theme: \"A picture is worth a thousand words\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-picture-is-worth-a-thousand-words/"},{"slug":"a-revolution-is-coming-a-revolution-which-will-be-peaceful","q":"A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not","n":"a revolution is coming a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough compassionate if we care enough successful if we are fortunate enough but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not","c":"disputed","real":"Robert F. Kennedy","credited":"John F. Kennedy","credit":"Robert F. Kennedy, report to the U.S. Senate on Latin America and the Alliance for Progress, 9–10 May 1966 (reprinted in To Seek a Newer World, 1967).","cite":"Robert F. Kennedy, report to the United States Senate on his trip to Latin America and the Alliance for Progress, 9–10 May 1966; reprinted in Robert F. Kennedy, To Seek a Newer World (New York: Doubleday, 1967).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Robert F. Kennedy — U.S. Attorney General, Senator for New York & presidential candidate. Theme: \"A revolution is coming — a revolution which will be peaceful if we are wise enough; compassionate if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough — but a revolution which is coming whether we will it or not\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-revolution-is-coming-a-revolution-which-will-be-peaceful/"},{"slug":"a-serious-and-good-philosophical-work-could-be-written","q":"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes","n":"a serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes","c":"attributed","real":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","credited":"","credit":"Ludwig Wittgenstein, as reported in Norman Malcolm, Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (1958). The popular wording \"consisting entirely of jokes\" is a paraphrase of Malcolm's text.","cite":"Ludwig Wittgenstein, as reported in Norman Malcolm, Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (London: Oxford University Press, 1958), p. 28.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Ludwig Wittgenstein — Austrian-British philosopher of logic & language. Theme: \"A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-serious-and-good-philosophical-work-could-be-written/"},{"slug":"a-sex-symbol-is-a-heavy-load-to-carry-when-one-is-tired","q":"A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered","n":"a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired hurt and bewildered","c":"disputed","real":"Clara Bow","credited":"Marilyn Monroe","credit":"Clara Bow, on the death of Marilyn Monroe, c. 1962","cite":"Clara Bow, remark on the death of Marilyn Monroe, c. August 1962, as recorded in \"Bow, Clara (1905–1965),\" Encyclopedia.com; cf. David Stenn, Clara Bow: Runnin' Wild (New York: Doubleday, 1988).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Clara Bow — Silent-film star & Hollywood's original \"It Girl\". Theme: \"A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-sex-symbol-is-a-heavy-load-to-carry-when-one-is-tired/"},{"slug":"a-thing-of-beauty-is-a-joy-forever","q":"A thing of beauty is a joy forever","n":"a thing of beauty is a joy forever","c":"verified","real":"John Keats","credited":"","credit":"John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance, Book I, line 1 (1818). Original spelling: \"a joy for ever.\"","cite":"John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance (London: Taylor and Hessey, 1818), Book I, line 1.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Keats — English Romantic poet. Theme: \"A thing of beauty is a joy forever\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-thing-of-beauty-is-a-joy-forever/"},{"slug":"a-true-friend-is-as-it-were-a-second-self","q":"A true friend is, as it were, a second self","n":"a true friend is as it were a second self","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","credited":"","credit":"Marcus Tullius Cicero, Laelius de Amicitia (On Friendship), 44 BC, §80 (\"tamquam alter idem\")","cite":"Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Laelius de Amicitia [44 BC], 80 (\"tamquam alter idem\"). Trans. E. S. Shuckburgh, in The Treatises of Cicero (London, 1885). Latin text: W. A. Falconer, ed., Loeb Classical Library (Harvard University Press, 1923).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Tullius Cicero — Roman statesman, orator & philosopher. Theme: \"A true friend is, as it were, a second self\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-true-friend-is-as-it-were-a-second-self/"},{"slug":"a-wise-man-proportions-his-belief-to-the-evidence","q":"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence","n":"a wise man proportions his belief to the evidence","c":"verified","real":"David Hume","credited":"","credit":"David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, \"Of Miracles,\" Part I (1748)","cite":"David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, \"Of Miracles,\" Part I (London, 1748; first published as Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of David Hume — Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian & essayist. Theme: \"A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-wise-man-proportions-his-belief-to-the-evidence/"},{"slug":"a-wise-man-should-have-money-in-his-head-but-not-in-his","q":"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart","n":"a wise man should have money in his head but not in his heart","c":"verified","real":"Jonathan Swift","credited":"","credit":"— Jonathan Swift, letter to Lord Bolingbroke, 5 April 1729","cite":"Jonathan Swift to Henry St John, Lord Bolingbroke, letter of 5 April 1729, in The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Vol. 14; also printed in the 1808 Works (ed. Sheridan & Nichols) at p.380 — the edition AZQuotes cites. The circulating \"should have\" wording is a modern clipping of Swift's \"ought to have.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Jonathan Swift — Anglo-Irish satirist, cleric & poet. Theme: \"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-wise-man-should-have-money-in-his-head-but-not-in-his/"},{"slug":"a-woman-knows-by-intuition-or-instinct-what-is-best-for","q":"A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself","n":"a woman knows by intuition or instinct what is best for herself","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — falsely credited to Marilyn Monroe","credited":"Marilyn Monroe","credit":"Attributed to Marilyn Monroe, but undocumented — Wikiquote lists it as misattributed and of unknown origin.","cite":"\"Marilyn Monroe,\" Wikiquote, Misattributed section (accessed 2026): \"A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself\" — noted as \"of unknown origin and date.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Marilyn Monroe — American actress, model & cultural icon. Theme: \"A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/a-woman-knows-by-intuition-or-instinct-what-is-best-for/"},{"slug":"abandon-all-hope-ye-who-enter-here","q":"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here","n":"abandon all hope ye who enter here","c":"verified","real":"Dante Alighieri","credited":"","credit":"Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto III, line 9 (c. 1320): \"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.\" Popularly rendered \"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.\"","cite":"Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto III, line 9 (c. 1308–1320): \"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate.\" English lines quoted from Henry Francis Cary, trans., The Vision; or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri (London, 1814).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Dante Alighieri — Florentine poet, author of the Divine Comedy. Theme: \"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/abandon-all-hope-ye-who-enter-here/"},{"slug":"able-was-i-ere-i-saw-elba","q":"Able was I ere I saw Elba","n":"able was i ere i saw elba","c":"disputed","real":"An anonymous American wordsmith (\"J.T.R.\" of Baltimore)","credited":"Napoleon Bonaparte","credit":"Not said by Napoleon Bonaparte. This palindrome first appeared in July 1848 in a New York periodical, credited to an anonymous \"J.T.R.\" of Baltimore, and was only reassigned to Napoleon around 1858. — Quotle.info","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba,\" 15 September 2013, citing The Gazette of the Union, Golden Rule, and Odd-Fellows' Family Companion (New York), July 1848.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, exiled to Elba in 1814. Theme: \"Able was I ere I saw Elba\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/able-was-i-ere-i-saw-elba/"},{"slug":"act-as-if-what-you-do-makes-a-difference-it-does","q":"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does","n":"act as if what you do makes a difference it does","c":"attributed","real":"William James","credited":"","credit":"Attributed to William James (1842–1910); widely credited but the exact wording is unverified — Quotle.info","cite":"Attributed to William James; commonly cited (via Academics in Action!, Fordham Univ. Press, 2016, p. 71) to a letter to Helen Keller, 17 Dec 1908, in The Correspondence of William James, ed. Skrupskelis & Berkeley, Vol. 12 (Charlottesville: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2004), 135 — unverified. Nearest documented parallel: William James, The Principles of Psychology (1890).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of William James — American philosopher & psychologist; a founder of pragmatism. Theme: \"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/act-as-if-what-you-do-makes-a-difference-it-does/"},{"slug":"adapt-or-perish-now-as-ever-is-natures-inexorable-imperative","q":"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative","n":"adapt or perish now as ever is natures inexorable imperative","c":"verified","real":"H.G. Wells","credited":"","credit":"H.G. Wells, The Mind at the End of its Tether (1945), Section IV","cite":"H.G. Wells, The Mind at the End of its Tether (London: William Heinemann, 1945), Section IV, p. 19.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of H.G. Wells — English novelist, historian & futurist — \"father of science fiction\". Theme: \"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/adapt-or-perish-now-as-ever-is-natures-inexorable-imperative/"},{"slug":"adventure-is-worthwhile-in-itself","q":"Adventure is worthwhile in itself","n":"adventure is worthwhile in itself","c":"attributed","real":"Amelia Earhart","credited":"","credit":"Attributed to Amelia Earhart (1897–1937); widely credited but no documented primary source. Quotle.info","cite":"Amelia Earhart, quotation \"Adventure is worthwhile in itself,\" attributed on the Official Website of Amelia Earhart (ameliaearhart.com), with no primary source documented; phrase not present in Amelia Earhart, 20 Hrs., 40 Min.: Our Flight in the Friendship (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1928).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Amelia Earhart — American aviation pioneer & author. Theme: \"Adventure is worthwhile in itself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/adventure-is-worthwhile-in-itself/"},{"slug":"adversity-has-the-effect-of-eliciting-talents-which-in","q":"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant","n":"adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant","c":"disputed","real":"Horace","credited":"Modern quote sites","credit":"Paraphrase of Horace, Satires 2.8.73–74 — not a verbatim quotation","cite":"Horace, Satires (Sermones) 2.8.73–74 (c. 30 BC); cf. Satires, Epistles and Ars Poetica, trans. H. Rushton Fairclough, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926). The popular English sentence is a modern paraphrase and is not found in this or other standard translations.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Horace — Roman lyric poet & satirist. Theme: \"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/adversity-has-the-effect-of-eliciting-talents-which-in/"},{"slug":"age-is-an-issue-of-mind-over-matter-if-you-dont-mind-it","q":"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter","n":"age is an issue of mind over matter if you dont mind it doesnt matter","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (an anonymous quip by 1968)","credited":"Muhammad Ali","credit":"Not a Muhammad Ali original — a floating quip attested anonymously by 1968; Ali used a looser version in a 1981 interview. Source: Quote Investigator.","cite":"O'Toole, Garson. \"Age Is an Issue of Mind Over Matter. If You Don't Mind, It Doesn't Matter.\" Quote Investigator, 18 December 2012. Earliest documented form credited to an anonymous government researcher, 1968.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Muhammad Ali — World heavyweight boxing champion. Theme: \"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/age-is-an-issue-of-mind-over-matter-if-you-dont-mind-it/"},{"slug":"all-i-need-is-a-sheet-of-paper-and-something-to-write-with","q":"All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down","n":"all i need is a sheet of paper and something to write with and then i can turn the world upside down","c":"disputed","real":"Cornelia Funke","credited":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credit":"Cornelia Funke, Inkspell (2005) — a made-up epigraph, not Friedrich Nietzsche","cite":"Cornelia Funke, Inkspell, trans. Anthea Bell (Chicken House, 2005), epigraph to chapter 26; misattribution documented in \"Five Commonly Misattributed Quotations,\" MLA Style Center.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Cornelia Funke — German author of the Inkheart (Tintenwelt) fantasy trilogy. Theme: \"All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/all-i-need-is-a-sheet-of-paper-and-something-to-write-with/"},{"slug":"all-of-us-are-creatures-of-a-day-the-rememberer-and-the","q":"All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike","n":"all of us are creatures of a day the rememberer and the remembered alike","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"Marcus Aurelius","credit":"Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.35, translated by Maxwell Staniforth (Penguin Classics, 1964)","cite":"Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, trans. Maxwell Staniforth, Penguin Classics (London: Penguin Books, 1964), bk. 4, sec. 35, p. 72. Cf. Marcus Aurelius, The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus, trans. George Long (London: Bell and Daldy, 1862), bk. 4, sec. 35, p. 53. Translation history documented in \"Quote Origin: All of Us Are Creatures of a Day; the Rememberer and the Remembered Alike,\" Quote Investigator, November 12, 2022.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"All of us are creatures of a day; the rememberer and the remembered alike\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/all-of-us-are-creatures-of-a-day-the-rememberer-and-the/"},{"slug":"all-our-dreams-can-come-true-if-we-have-the-courage-to","q":"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them","n":"all our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them","c":"disputed","real":"No verified author (falsely credited to Walt Disney)","credited":"Walt Disney","credit":"popularly credited to Walt Disney, but unverified and likely apocryphal (earliest print 1992).","cite":"Earliest documented in The Goal Book (Newport Beach, CA: R & E Publishers, 1992), p. vi, attributed to Walt Disney; no primary source in Disney's own words has been located. See also Pat Williams, How to Be Like Walt (Deerfield Beach, FL: HCI, 2004), 63.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Walt Disney — American animator, film producer & co-founder of The Walt Disney Company. Theme: \"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/all-our-dreams-can-come-true-if-we-have-the-courage-to/"},{"slug":"all-that-we-see-or-seem-is-but-a-dream-within-a-dream","q":"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream","n":"all that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream","c":"verified","real":"Edgar Allan Poe","credited":"","credit":"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. — Edgar Allan Poe, \"A Dream Within a Dream\" (1849)","cite":"Poe, Edgar Allan. “A Dream Within a Dream.” The Flag of Our Union, March 31, 1849; reprinted in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, vol. 2 (New York: Redfield, 1859).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Edgar Allan Poe — American writer, poet & literary critic. Theme: \"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/all-that-we-see-or-seem-is-but-a-dream-within-a-dream/"},{"slug":"all-things-are-difficult-before-they-are-easy","q":"All things are difficult before they are easy","n":"all things are difficult before they are easy","c":"attributed","real":"Thomas Fuller","credited":"","credit":"All things are difficult, before they are easy. —Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732), No. 560 (a proverb Fuller collected, not coined)","cite":"Fuller, Thomas. Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British. London: B. Barker, 1732, No. 560.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Fuller — English physician & adage collector. Theme: \"All things are difficult before they are easy\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/all-things-are-difficult-before-they-are-easy/"},{"slug":"alone-we-can-do-so-little-together-we-can-do-so-much","q":"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much","n":"alone we can do so little together we can do so much","c":"attributed","real":"Helen Keller","credited":"","credit":"Helen Keller, from her vaudeville stage speech (early 1920s), as documented in Joseph P. Lash, Helen and Teacher (1980)","cite":"Joseph P. Lash, Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy (New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1980), quoting Helen Keller's vaudeville stage address, early 1920s. Earliest documented printing of the line; exact page not independently confirmed.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Helen Keller — American author, disability-rights advocate & lecturer. Theme: \"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/alone-we-can-do-so-little-together-we-can-do-so-much/"},{"slug":"always-forgive-your-enemies-nothing-annoys-them-so-much","q":"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much","n":"always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much","c":"disputed","real":"Percy Colson","credited":"Oscar Wilde","credit":"Not Oscar Wilde. Wilde died in 1900 and no work of his contains the line. The earliest known version is Percy Colson's, printed in The Sketch (London), 13 April 1949: \"Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so intensely.\" The familiar wording is first documented in 1954, in Walter Winchell's column of 27 May, which credits it to the June Reader's Digest filler that names Wilde without a source. Trail documented by Quote Investigator (quoteinvestigator.com/2021/06/11/annoy/).","cite":"Earliest documented in Percy Colson, precepts printed in \"The Sketch\" (London), 13 April 1949, p. 239, col. 2: \"Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them so intensely.\" Cited in Quote Investigator, \"Quote Origin: Always Forgive Your Enemies; Nothing Annoys Them So Much,\" 11 June 2021. The familiar wording is first documented in 1954: Walter Winchell's column of 27 May 1954 (Courier-Post) carries it while crediting it to \"Reader's Digest\" 64, no. 386 (June 1954): 134, whose filler item credits Oscar Wilde without citation.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Percy Colson — British author and biographer. Theme: \"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/always-forgive-your-enemies-nothing-annoys-them-so-much/"},{"slug":"americans-will-always-do-the-right-thing-after-exhausting","q":"Americans will always do the right thing, after exhausting all the alternatives","n":"americans will always do the right thing after exhausting all the alternatives","c":"disputed","real":"Abba Eban","credited":"Winston Churchill","credit":"Not Churchill — no Churchill source exists. The idea traces to Israeli diplomat Abba Eban (1967); the \"Americans\" wording first appears in a 1970 U.S. Congressional hearing, and Churchill's name was only attached from about 1980. (Quote Investigator, 2012)","cite":"Earliest documented in the spoken remarks of Abba Eban (1967), per Garson O'Toole, \"Americans Will Always Do the Right Thing — After Exhausting All the Alternatives,\" Quote Investigator, 11 November 2012.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Abba Eban — Israeli diplomat, Foreign Minister & orator. Theme: \"Americans will always do the right thing, after exhausting all the alternatives\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/americans-will-always-do-the-right-thing-after-exhausting/"},{"slug":"an-army-of-sheep-led-by-a-lion-is-better-than-an-army-of","q":"An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep","n":"an army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep","c":"disputed","real":"Chabrias (as recorded by Plutarch)","credited":"Napoleon Bonaparte","credit":"Ancient proverb (credited to the Athenian general Chabrias by Plutarch) — not Napoleon Bonaparte, who used the saying but credited an unnamed Athenian general.","cite":"Plutarch, 'Moralia' (attributing the saying to Chabrias); cf. 'Memoirs of the History of France During the Reign of Napoleon, Dictated by the Emperor at Saint Helena' (London, 1823), in which Napoleon credits \"the Athenian general.\" Earliest 'sheep' wording documented 1736; see Quote Investigator, \"An Army of Stags Led by a Lion…,\" 29 July 2024.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Chabrias — Athenian general · saying preserved by Plutarch (c. 46–120 AD). Theme: \"An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/an-army-of-sheep-led-by-a-lion-is-better-than-an-army-of/"},{"slug":"an-artists-duty-is-to-reflect-the-times","q":"An artist's duty is to reflect the times","n":"an artists duty is to reflect the times","c":"verified","real":"Nina Simone","credited":"","credit":"An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times. —Nina Simone","cite":"Nina Simone, televised interview (archival footage, c. 1969), as featured in What Happened, Miss Simone?, directed by Liz Garbus (Netflix, 2015).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Nina Simone — Singer, pianist & civil-rights activist. Theme: \"An artist's duty is to reflect the times\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/an-artists-duty-is-to-reflect-the-times/"},{"slug":"an-eye-for-an-eye-will-make-the-whole-world-blind","q":"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind","n":"an eye for an eye will make the whole world blind","c":"disputed","real":"Mahatma Gandhi","credited":"Mahatma Gandhi","credit":"Often attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, but undocumented in his works — an unsourced modern epigram (per Quote Investigator).","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Quote Origin: An Eye for an Eye Will Make the Whole World Blind,\" December 27, 2010, citing earliest variants in the Canadian House of Commons Debates (1914) and Henry Powell Spring (1944), and Louis Fischer, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (New York: Harper, 1950).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Mahatma Gandhi — Indian independence leader & apostle of nonviolence. Theme: \"An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/an-eye-for-an-eye-will-make-the-whole-world-blind/"},{"slug":"an-investment-in-knowledge-pays-the-best-interest","q":"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest","n":"an investment in knowledge pays the best interest","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (19th-century American press)","credited":"Benjamin Franklin","credit":"commonly credited to Benjamin Franklin, but unverified. No source exists in his writings; the earliest known printing is an 1849 Boston newspaper, ~59 years after his death.","cite":"Earliest documented in \"Education,\" Daily Evening Transcript (Boston, Mass.), Feb. 16, 1849, credited to \"Dr. Franklin\"; traced in Barry Popik, \"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest,\" The Big Apple (barrypopik.com). No source in the Papers of Benjamin Franklin (Yale).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Benjamin Franklin — Founding Father, printer and author. Theme: \"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/an-investment-in-knowledge-pays-the-best-interest/"},{"slug":"and-be-ye-kind-one-to-another-tenderhearted-forgiving-one","q":"And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you","n":"and be ye kind one to another tenderhearted forgiving one another even as god for christs sake hath forgiven you","c":"verified","real":"Paul the Apostle","credited":"","credit":"Ephesians 4:32, King James Version (1611)","cite":"The Holy Bible, King James Version (London, 1611), Ephesians 4:32.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Paul the Apostle — Apostle of Jesus Christ & missionary of the early church. Theme: \"And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/and-be-ye-kind-one-to-another-tenderhearted-forgiving-one/"},{"slug":"and-god-said-love-your-enemy-and-i-obeyed-him-and-loved","q":"And God said, Love your enemy, and I obeyed Him and loved myself","n":"and god said love your enemy and i obeyed him and loved myself","c":"disputed","real":"Kahlil Gibran","credited":"Kahlil Gibran","credit":"Kahlil Gibran, Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran (trans. A. R. Ferris, 1962). The genuine line reads: “My enemy said to me, ‘Love your enemy.’ And I obeyed him and loved myself.” The popular “And God said…” version is a misquote.","cite":"Kahlil Gibran, \"My enemy said to me, 'Love your enemy.' And I obeyed him and loved myself,\" in Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran, trans. and ed. Anthony R. Ferris (New York: Citadel Press, 1962).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Kahlil Gibran — Lebanese-American poet, artist & author of The Prophet. Theme: \"And God said, Love your enemy, and I obeyed Him and loved myself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/and-god-said-love-your-enemy-and-i-obeyed-him-and-loved/"},{"slug":"and-now-abideth-faith-hope-charity-these-three-but-the","q":"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity","n":"and now abideth faith hope charity these three but the greatest of these is charity","c":"verified","real":"Paul the Apostle","credited":"","credit":"Paul the Apostle, 1 Corinthians 13:13 (King James Version, 1611)","cite":"Paul, \"The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians,\" 13:13, in The Holy Bible, King James Version (London, 1611).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Paul the Apostle — Apostle, missionary & author of much of the New Testament. Theme: \"And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/and-now-abideth-faith-hope-charity-these-three-but-the/"},{"slug":"anger-is-an-acid-that-can-do-more-harm-to-the-vessel-in","q":"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it's stored than to anything on which it's poured","n":"anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which its stored than to anything on which its poured","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (an anonymous American saying)","credited":"Seneca","credit":"Anonymous saying (first printed 1955); often misattributed to Seneca, Mark Twain, and Gandhi.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Anger Is an Acid That Can Do More Harm To the Vessel In Which It's Stored Than To Anything On Which It's Poured,\" 12 July 2023; earliest documented instance: Daily News-Post (Monrovia, CA), May 1955, unsigned.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Seneca the Younger — Roman Stoic philosopher & statesman. Theme: \"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it's stored than to anything on which it's poured\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/anger-is-an-acid-that-can-do-more-harm-to-the-vessel-in/"},{"slug":"any-fool-can-criticize-condemn-and-complain-and-most-fools","q":"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do","n":"any fool can criticize condemn and complain and most fools do","c":"disputed","real":"Dale Carnegie","credited":"Benjamin Franklin","credit":"Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) — not Benjamin Franklin","cite":"Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1936), Part One, Chapter 1.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Dale Carnegie — American writer & lecturer, author of How to Win Friends and Influence People. Theme: \"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/any-fool-can-criticize-condemn-and-complain-and-most-fools/"},{"slug":"any-man-who-thinks-he-is-going-to-be-happy-and-prosperous","q":"Any man who thinks he is going to be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him should take a close look at the American Indian","n":"any man who thinks he is going to be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him should take a close look at the american indian","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (anonymous newspaper filler)","credited":"Henry Ford","credit":"Anonymous U.S. newspaper saying (1935–1950); misattributed to Henry Ford. Not verified as Ford's words.","cite":"Barry Popik, \"Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him…\" (citation history tracing the saying to 1935–1950 anonymous newspapers); corroborated by Check Your Fact, \"Did Henry Ford Say…?\" (21 Oct 2019), citing the Henry Ford Museum archive.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry Ford — American industrialist, founder of Ford Motor Company. Theme: \"Any man who thinks he is going to be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him should take a close look at the American Indian\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/any-man-who-thinks-he-is-going-to-be-happy-and-prosperous/"},{"slug":"any-mans-death-diminishes-me-because-i-am-involved-in","q":"any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee","n":"any mans death diminishes me because i am involved in mankind and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls it tolls for thee","c":"verified","real":"John Donne","credited":"","credit":"John Donne, Meditation XVII, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624)","cite":"John Donne, \"Meditation XVII,\" in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (London, 1624).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Donne — English poet, cleric & Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. Theme: \"any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/any-mans-death-diminishes-me-because-i-am-involved-in/"},{"slug":"anyone-who-doesnt-believe-in-miracles-is-not-a-realist","q":"Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist","n":"anyone who doesnt believe in miracles is not a realist","c":"disputed","real":"David Ben-Gurion","credited":"Audrey Hepburn","credit":"Misattributed to Audrey Hepburn. Actually David Ben-Gurion: \"With us, anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist.\" — attributed in Roman Frister, Israel: Years of Crisis, Years of Hope (1973), p. 45.","cite":"David Ben-Gurion, attributed in Roman Frister, Israel: Years of Crisis, Years of Hope (1973), p. 45 (\"With us, anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist\"); a variant reputedly from a CBS interview of 5 October 1956 is unverified. Exact wording \"Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist\" attributed to Ben-Gurion in Charles A. Garfield, Psychosocial Care of the Dying Patient (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of David Ben-Gurion — Zionist statesman & first Prime Minister of Israel. Theme: \"Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/anyone-who-doesnt-believe-in-miracles-is-not-a-realist/"},{"slug":"anything-that-is-too-stupid-to-be-spoken-is-sung","q":"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung","n":"anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung","c":"disputed","real":"Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais","credited":"Voltaire","credit":"Paraphrase of Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville (1775), Act I, sc. ii — often misattributed to Voltaire","cite":"Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Le Barbier de Séville (1775), Act I, sc. ii. Line often paraphrased in English and misattributed to Voltaire; cf. George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais — French playwright & author of the Figaro comedies. Theme: \"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/anything-that-is-too-stupid-to-be-spoken-is-sung/"},{"slug":"art-washes-away-from-the-soul-the-dust-of-everyday-life","q":"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life","n":"art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life","c":"disputed","real":"Berthold Auerbach (original); the \"art\" variant is anonymous","credited":"Pablo Picasso","credit":"Adapted from Berthold Auerbach (1864), who wrote it about music — not Pablo Picasso","cite":"Berthold Auerbach, Auf der Höhe (1864); Eng. trans. as On the Heights by F. E. Bunnett (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1867). The \"art\" variant earliest documented in \"The Wisdom of Pablo Picasso,\" Playboy 11, no. 1 (January 1964): 95–97.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Berthold Auerbach — German novelist & poet, author of Black Forest Village Stories. Theme: \"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/art-washes-away-from-the-soul-the-dust-of-everyday-life/"},{"slug":"as-a-well-spent-day-brings-happy-sleep-so-life-well-used","q":"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death","n":"as a well spent day brings happy sleep so life well used brings happy death","c":"verified","real":"Leonardo da Vinci","credited":"","credit":"Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, trans. Edward MacCurdy (1938); aphorism No. 1173 in Richter's edition. Original Italian: \"Sì come una giornata bene spesa dà lieto dormire, così una vita bene usata dà lieto morire.\"","cite":"Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, arranged, rendered into English and introduced by Edward MacCurdy (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1938); the aphorism is No. 1173 in Jean Paul Richter, ed., The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci (London: Sampson Low, 1883).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Leonardo da Vinci — Florentine polymath, painter & engineer. Theme: \"As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/as-a-well-spent-day-brings-happy-sleep-so-life-well-used/"},{"slug":"as-god-is-my-witness-ill-never-go-hungry-again","q":"As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again!","n":"as god is my witness ill never go hungry again","c":"disputed","real":"Margaret Mitchell","credited":"\"I'll never go hungry again\"","credit":"Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939), screenplay credited to Sidney Howard, compressing Margaret Mitchell's vow from Chapter XXV of her 1936 novel. The popular \"never go hungry again\" is a misquote.","cite":"Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (New York: Macmillan, 1936), chap. XXV. Film: Gone with the Wind, directed by Victor Fleming, screenplay by Sidney Howard, from Mitchell's novel (Selznick International Pictures / MGM, 1939).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Margaret Mitchell — Atlanta journalist & novelist · Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1937. Theme: \"As God is my witness, I'll never go hungry again!\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/as-god-is-my-witness-ill-never-go-hungry-again/"},{"slug":"ask-not-what-your-country-can-do-for-you-ask-what-you-can","q":"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country","n":"ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country","c":"verified","real":"John F. Kennedy","credited":"","credit":"John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961","cite":"John F. Kennedy, \"Inaugural Address,\" Washington, D.C., January 20, 1961. Official text, U.S. National Archives, Milestone Documents.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John F. Kennedy — 35th President of the United States. Theme: \"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/ask-not-what-your-country-can-do-for-you-ask-what-you-can/"},{"slug":"ask-yourself-whether-you-are-happy-and-you-cease-to-be-so","q":"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so","n":"ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so","c":"verified","real":"John Stuart Mill","credited":"","credit":"John Stuart Mill, Autobiography (1873), ch. 5","cite":"John Stuart Mill, Autobiography (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1873), ch. 5, \"A Crisis in My Mental History.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Stuart Mill — English philosopher, political economist & Member of Parliament. Theme: \"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/ask-yourself-whether-you-are-happy-and-you-cease-to-be-so/"},{"slug":"associate-yourself-with-men-of-good-quality-if-you-esteem","q":"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company","n":"associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company","c":"disputed","real":"A French Jesuit \"Rules of Civility\" maxim (trans. Francis Hawkins)","credited":"George Washington","credit":"Rule 56 of the \"Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour,\" copied by George Washington c. 1744 — a French Jesuit maxim (c. 1595), not composed by him.","cite":"George Washington, \"Rules of Civility & Decent Behaviour in Company and Conversation\" (school copybook, c. 1744), Rule 56; text descending from 'Bienséance de la conversation entre les hommes' (Jesuit Collège de La Flèche, 1595), trans. Francis Hawkins (London, c. 1640).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of George Washington — First U.S. president; copied the maxim as a schoolboy. Theme: \"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for it is better to be alone than in bad company\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/associate-yourself-with-men-of-good-quality-if-you-esteem/"},{"slug":"atheism-is-a-disease-of-the-soul-before-it-becomes-an-error","q":"Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding","n":"atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of the understanding","c":"disputed","real":"Plato (idea) — wording by William Fleming, 1857","credited":"Plato","credit":"wording by William Fleming, Vocabulary of Philosophy (1857), glossing Plato's Laws, Book X. Not a direct quotation of Plato.","cite":"William Fleming, The Vocabulary of Philosophy, Mental, Moral, and Metaphysical (Edinburgh: 1857), p. 52; glossing Plato, Laws, Book X (trans. Benjamin Jowett).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Plato — Athenian philosopher, founder of the Academy. Theme: \"Atheism is a disease of the soul, before it becomes an error of the understanding\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/atheism-is-a-disease-of-the-soul-before-it-becomes-an-error/"},{"slug":"attention-is-the-rarest-and-purest-form-of-generosity","q":"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity","n":"attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity","c":"verified","real":"Simone Weil","credited":"","credit":"Simone Weil, letter to Joë Bousquet, 13 April 1942 (Correspondance, L'Age d'Homme, 1982, p. 18)","cite":"Simone Weil, letter to Joë Bousquet, 13 April 1942, in Correspondance (Lausanne: Editions l'Age d'Homme, 1982), 18; English wording from Raymond Rosenthal's translation. Original: \"L'attention est la forme la plus rare et la plus pure de la générosité.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Simone Weil — French philosopher, mystic & political activist. Theme: \"Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/attention-is-the-rarest-and-purest-form-of-generosity/"},{"slug":"be-a-philosopher-but-amidst-all-your-philosophy-be-still-a","q":"Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man","n":"be a philosopher but amidst all your philosophy be still a man","c":"verified","real":"David Hume","credited":"","credit":"David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section I (1748)","cite":"David Hume, \"Of the Different Species of Philosophy,\" Section I of 'An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding' (London, 1748).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of David Hume — Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian & essayist. Theme: \"Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/be-a-philosopher-but-amidst-all-your-philosophy-be-still-a/"},{"slug":"be-careful-what-you-water-your-dreams-with-water-them-with","q":"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream","n":"be careful what you water your dreams with water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream","c":"disputed","real":"Aileen Miga & Janice Hughes","credited":"Lao Tzu","credit":"Misattributed to Lao Tzu. Documented source: Aileen Miga & Janice Hughes, Inspired Wealth: Financial Leadership for the 21st Century (2004), p. 44 (per Wikiquote).","cite":"Aileen Miga and Janice Hughes, Inspired Wealth: Financial Leadership for the 21st Century (2004), p. 44; documented as the source in \"Laozi\" (Misattributed), Wikiquote.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Aileen Miga & Janice Hughes — Authors of Inspired Wealth: Financial Leadership for the 21st Century (2004). Theme: \"Be careful what you water your dreams with. Water them with worry and fear and you will produce weeds that choke the life from your dream\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/be-careful-what-you-water-your-dreams-with-water-them-with/"},{"slug":"be-civil-to-all-sociable-to-many-familiar-with-few-friend","q":"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none","n":"be civil to all sociable to many familiar with few friend to one enemy to none","c":"verified","real":"Benjamin Franklin","credited":"","credit":"Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard Improved (almanac for 1756).","cite":"Benjamin Franklin [as Richard Saunders], Poor Richard Improved: Being an Almanack … for the Year … 1756 (Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1755), April calendar page.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Benjamin Franklin — printer, scientist & Founding Father. Theme: \"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/be-civil-to-all-sociable-to-many-familiar-with-few-friend/"},{"slug":"be-kind-for-everyone-you-meet-is-fighting-a-hard-battle","q":"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle","n":"be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle","c":"disputed","real":"John Watson (\"Ian Maclaren\")","credited":"Plato","credit":"Attributed to Plato, but actually a paraphrase of John Watson (\"Ian Maclaren\"), 1897: \"Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.\"","cite":"Watson, John [\"Ian Maclaren\"]. Christmas message, The British Weekly (London), December 1897: \"Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle.\" Earliest attestation per Quote Investigator (2010).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Watson (\"Ian Maclaren\") — Scottish Free Church minister & novelist (pen name Ian Maclaren). Theme: \"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/be-kind-for-everyone-you-meet-is-fighting-a-hard-battle/"},{"slug":"be-less-curious-about-people-and-more-curious-about-ideas","q":"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas","n":"be less curious about people and more curious about ideas","c":"attributed","real":"Marie Curie","credited":"","credit":"Attributed to Marie Curie — widely credited to her but unsourced; it reworks her documented 1923 remark, \"In science, we should be interested in things, not persons.\" Quotle.info","cite":"Best-available: Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, trans. Charlotte and Vernon Kellogg, intro. Marie Mattingly Meloney (New York: Macmillan, 1923), in Meloney's introduction — documents the cognate \"In science, we should be interested in things, not persons.\" No source documents the popular reworded wording.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Marie Curie — Physicist and chemist; two-time Nobel laureate. Theme: \"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/be-less-curious-about-people-and-more-curious-about-ideas/"},{"slug":"be-moderate-in-everything-including-moderation","q":"Be moderate in everything, including moderation","n":"be moderate in everything including moderation","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — earliest documented in Wallace Rice (1927)","credited":"Socrates","credit":"Not Socrates — earliest documented in Wallace Rice's \"Pagan Pictures\" (1927); a 1920s coinage riffing on the ancient \"nothing too much,\" per Quote Investigator.","cite":"Wallace Rice, \"Moderation,\" in Pagan Pictures: Freely Translated and Fully Expanded from the Greek Anthology & the Greek Lyrical Poets (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927). Earliest documented English match; see Garson O'Toole, \"Be Moderate In Everything Including Moderation,\" Quote Investigator, 13 May 2022.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Wallace Rice — American poet, editor & translator; designer of the Chicago flag. Theme: \"Be moderate in everything, including moderation\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/be-moderate-in-everything-including-moderation/"},{"slug":"be-still-when-you-have-nothing-to-say-when-genuine-passion","q":"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot","n":"be still when you have nothing to say when genuine passion moves you say what youve got to say and say it hot","c":"verified","real":"D.H. Lawrence","credited":"","credit":"D.H. Lawrence, Studies in Classic American Literature (1923)","cite":"Lawrence, D. H. Studies in Classic American Literature. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923, chapter \"Benjamin Franklin.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of D.H. Lawrence — English novelist, poet & essayist. Theme: \"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/be-still-when-you-have-nothing-to-say-when-genuine-passion/"},{"slug":"be-the-change-that-you-wish-to-see-in-the-world","q":"Be the change that you wish to see in the world","n":"be the change that you wish to see in the world","c":"disputed","real":"Arleen Lorrance","credited":"Mahatma Gandhi","credit":"— Arleen Lorrance, 1974 (often misattributed to Gandhi)","cite":"Lorrance, Arleen. \"The Love Project.\" In Developing Priorities and a Style, 1974. See also Quote Investigator, \"Be the Change You Wish To See in the World,\" October 23, 2017.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Arleen Lorrance — co-founder of The Love Project. Theme: \"Be the change that you wish to see in the world\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/be-the-change-that-you-wish-to-see-in-the-world/"},{"slug":"be-the-change-you-wish-to-see-in-the-world","q":"Be the change you wish to see in the world","n":"be the change you wish to see in the world","c":"disputed","real":"Arleen Lorrance","credited":"Mahatma Gandhi","credit":"Often credited to Mahatma Gandhi, but he never said it. The exact phrase traces to educator Arleen Lorrance (1974); Gandhi's genuine 1913 line was \"If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change.\" — via Quote Investigator","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Quote Origin: Be the Change You Wish To See in the World,\" 23 October 2017. Earliest close match: Arleen Lorrance, \"The Love Project\" (1974). Gandhi's genuine parallel: Indian Opinion, 9 August 1913, in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. XII.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Mahatma Gandhi — Leader of Indian independence & apostle of nonviolence. Theme: \"Be the change you wish to see in the world\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/be-the-change-you-wish-to-see-in-the-world/"},{"slug":"be-who-you-are-and-say-what-you-feel-because-those-who-mind","q":"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind","n":"be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind dont matter and those who matter dont mind","c":"disputed","real":"Bernard M. Baruch (for the punchline only)","credited":"Dr. Seuss","credit":"Not written by Dr. Seuss. The punchline \"those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter\" is an older aphorism credited to Bernard Baruch; the \"Be who you are and say what you feel\" opener is an unsourced modern addition. — Quotle.info","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Those Who Mind Don't Matter, and Those Who Matter Don't Mind,\" December 4, 2012, tracing the earliest full attestation to The Journal of the Institution of Municipal & County Engineers (Feb. 1, 1938), the 1946 attribution to Bernard Baruch via columnist Igor Cassini, and a 2001 instance credited to Dr. Seuss. The Baruch exchange is separately recorded in Wikiquote, citing Bennett Cerf, Shake Well Before Using: A New Collection of Impressions and Anecdotes Mostly Humorous (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1948), p. 249.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Bernard M. Baruch — American financier & adviser to U.S. presidents. Theme: \"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/be-who-you-are-and-say-what-you-feel-because-those-who-mind/"},{"slug":"be-worthy-love-and-love-will-come","q":"Be worthy love, and love will come","n":"be worthy love and love will come","c":"verified","real":"Louisa May Alcott","credited":"","credit":"Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1869) — verified by Quotle.info","cite":"Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. Part Two. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869. Chapter 46, \"Under the Umbrella,\" poem \"In the Garret.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Louisa May Alcott — American novelist, author of Little Women. Theme: \"Be worthy love, and love will come\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/be-worthy-love-and-love-will-come/"},{"slug":"be-yourself-everyone-else-is-already-taken","q":"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken","n":"be yourself everyone else is already taken","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown","credited":"Oscar Wilde","credit":"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. —often attributed to Oscar Wilde, but there is no evidence he said it; the earliest documented use is an anonymous 1999 Usenet post (per Quote Investigator).","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken,\" QuoteInvestigator.com, Jan 20, 2014. Earliest documented exact wording: anonymous Usenet post, December 1999.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Oscar Wilde — Irish poet, playwright & wit. Theme: \"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/be-yourself-everyone-else-is-already-taken/"},{"slug":"beam-me-up-scotty","q":"Beam me up, Scotty","n":"beam me up scotty","c":"disputed","real":"Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Harve Bennett & Nicholas Meyer","credited":"Star Trek: The Original Series (1966–69)","credit":"Scotty, beam me up! — Adm. James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Paramount Pictures, 1986); screenplay by Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Harve Bennett & Nicholas Meyer. The popular \"Beam me up, Scotty\" is never spoken in any Star Trek episode or film.","cite":"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, directed by Leonard Nimoy, screenplay by Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Harve Bennett, and Nicholas Meyer, story by Harve Bennett and Leonard Nimoy (Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, 1986). Line transcribed in \"Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,\" The Movie Transcripts, chakoteya.net. Earliest documented use of the popular wording: Aeronautical Journal, April 1975, per Fred R. Shapiro, \"'Beam Me Up, Mr. Scott' (Revisited),\" Yale University Press, December 15, 2021.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Steve Meerson, Peter Krikes, Harve Bennett & Nicholas Meyer — Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Paramount, 1986) · credit settled by WGA arbitration. Theme: \"Beam me up, Scotty\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/beam-me-up-scotty/"},{"slug":"beauty-in-things-exists-in-the-mind-which-contemplates-them","q":"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them","n":"beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them","c":"verified","real":"David Hume","credited":"","credit":"David Hume, \"Of the Standard of Taste,\" Four Dissertations (1757)","cite":"David Hume, \"Of the Standard of Taste,\" in Four Dissertations (London: A. Millar, 1757); reprinted in Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of David Hume — Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian & essayist. Theme: \"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/beauty-in-things-exists-in-the-mind-which-contemplates-them/"},{"slug":"beer-is-proof-that-god-loves-us-and-wants-us-to-be-happy","q":"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy","n":"beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy","c":"disputed","real":"Benjamin Franklin","credited":"Benjamin Franklin","credit":"Misattributed to Benjamin Franklin. He wrote it about WINE, not beer — a line from his c.1779 letter to the Abbé Morellet, first published in 1818. The \"beer\" wording is a 1990s substitution.","cite":"Benjamin Franklin to the Abbé Morellet, c. 1779, in William Temple Franklin, ed., Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin (London, 1818). Provenance traced by Quote Investigator, \"Beer/Wine Is Proof that God Loves Us and Wants Us To Be Happy\" (24 June 2016).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Benjamin Franklin — American statesman, scientist & Founding Father. Theme: \"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/beer-is-proof-that-god-loves-us-and-wants-us-to-be-happy/"},{"slug":"before-you-diagnose-yourself-with-depression-or-low-self","q":"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes","n":"before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem first make sure that you are not in fact just surrounded by assholes","c":"disputed","real":"@debihope","credited":"Sigmund Freud","credit":"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. —@debihope, Twitter, 24 January 2010. Not Sigmund Freud. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in a tweet by @debihope (\"Notorious d.e.b.\"), 12:23 PM, 24 January 2010. Traced in Quote Investigator, \"Quote Origin: Before You Diagnose Yourself with Depression or Low Self-Esteem…,\" 25 October 2014 (notes updated 16 December 2024).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of @debihope — display name Notorious d.e.b. · posted 24 January 2010. Theme: \"Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/before-you-diagnose-yourself-with-depression-or-low-self/"},{"slug":"before-you-embark-on-a-journey-of-revenge-dig-two-graves","q":"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves","n":"before you embark on a journey of revenge dig two graves","c":"disputed","real":"A traditional Japanese proverb","credited":"Confucius","credit":"Traditional Japanese proverb (earliest recorded by W. E. Griffis, 1876) — not Confucius","cite":"Earliest documented in William Elliot Griffis, The Mikado's Empire (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1876), as \"If you call down a curse on any one, look out for two graves\"; chronology per Garson O'Toole, \"If You Seek Revenge You Should Dig Two Graves,\" Quote Investigator, 7 July 2019.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Elliot Griffis — American orientalist & author. Theme: \"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/before-you-embark-on-a-journey-of-revenge-dig-two-graves/"},{"slug":"before-you-leave-the-house-look-in-the-mirror-and-remove","q":"Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one piece of jewelry","n":"before you leave the house look in the mirror and remove one piece of jewelry","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — an anonymous fashion adage","credited":"Coco Chanel","credit":"Anonymous fashion adage (documented by 1949; often misattributed to Coco Chanel)","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Before You Leave the House, Look in the Mirror and Remove One Piece of Jewelry,\" QuoteInvestigator.com, February 2, 2023, citing the earliest known form in The American University Eagle (Washington, D.C.), 1949.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Coco Chanel — French couturier · founder of the House of Chanel. Theme: \"Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one piece of jewelry\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/before-you-leave-the-house-look-in-the-mirror-and-remove/"},{"slug":"before-you-speak-listen-before-you-write-think-before-you","q":"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give","n":"before you speak listen before you write think before you spend earn before you invest investigate before you criticize wait before you pray forgive before you quit try before you retire save before you die give","c":"disputed","real":"William Arthur Ward","credited":"William Shakespeare","credit":"—William Arthur Ward, Thoughts of a Christian Optimist (1968). Frequently misattributed to William Shakespeare, who did not write it.","cite":"William Arthur Ward, Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward (Anderson, SC: Droke House, 1968), 89 pp., LCCN 68013823. Citation trail documented in \"Quote Origin: Before You Speak, Listen. Before You Write, Think,\" Quote Investigator, 26 May 2026.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of William Arthur Ward — American motivational writer & epigrammatist. Theme: \"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/before-you-speak-listen-before-you-write-think-before-you/"},{"slug":"begin-at-once-to-live-and-count-each-separate-day-as-a","q":"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life","n":"begin at once to live and count each separate day as a separate life","c":"verified","real":"Seneca","credited":"","credit":"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. — Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius 101.10 (trans. Richard M. Gummere)","cite":"Seneca. Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Letter 101.10. Translated by Richard M. Gummere. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Seneca — Roman Stoic philosopher, tutor to Nero. Theme: \"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/begin-at-once-to-live-and-count-each-separate-day-as-a/"},{"slug":"being-deeply-loved-by-someone-gives-you-strength-while","q":"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage","n":"being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage","c":"disputed","real":"Lao Tzu","credited":"Lao Tzu","credit":"Not Lao Tzu — the line is absent from the Tao Te Ching. Its earliest documented appearance is Dean Koontz's 1988 novel \"Lightning,\" which credited Lao Tzu without a source. Author unknown. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in Dean Koontz, 'Lightning' (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1988), where the line is credited to Lao Tzu without a source; not present in the 'Tao Te Ching.' See also Wikiquote, \"Laozi — Misattributed.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Lao Tzu — legendary Chinese sage, reputed author of the Tao Te Ching. Theme: \"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/being-deeply-loved-by-someone-gives-you-strength-while/"},{"slug":"believe-in-yourself-and-all-that-you-are","q":"Believe in yourself and all that you are","n":"believe in yourself and all that you are","c":"disputed","real":"Christian D. Larson","credited":"Christian D. Larson","credit":"is a modern condensation, not Christian D. Larson's words. Larson wrote, in the epigraph to Chapter IV of Your Forces and How to Use Them (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1912): \"Believe in yourself but not simply in a part of yourself. Give constant recognition to all that is in you... Know that you have something within you that is greater than any obstacle, circumstance or difficulty that you can possibly meet.\" Via quotle.info","cite":"Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1912), epigraph immediately preceding chapter 4, \"The Forces of the Subconscious\" (chapter opens at p. 59). The popular wording — \"Believe in yourself and all that you are\" — does not appear anywhere in the text; the author and date of the condensation are undocumented.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Christian D. Larson — American New Thought writer & lecturer. Theme: \"Believe in yourself and all that you are\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/believe-in-yourself-and-all-that-you-are/"},{"slug":"believe-nothing-no-matter-where-you-read-it-or-who-has-said","q":"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense","n":"believe nothing no matter where you read it or who has said it not even if i have said it unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense","c":"disputed","real":"Gautama Buddha","credited":"Gautama Buddha","credit":"Not the Buddha. This is a modern paraphrase of the Kalama Sutta (AN 3.65), first documented in \"John Galt,\" Dreams Come Due (Simon & Schuster, 1986).","cite":"\"John Galt\" [pseud.]. Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics As If Freedom Mattered. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986. (Earliest documented appearance of this wording, per Fake Buddha Quotes.) Genuine root text: Kalama Sutta, Anguttara Nikaya 3.65, trans. Thanissaro Bhikkhu.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Gautama Buddha — founder of Buddhism · northern India. Theme: \"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, not even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/believe-nothing-no-matter-where-you-read-it-or-who-has-said/"},{"slug":"believe-that-life-is-worth-living-and-your-belief-will-help","q":"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact","n":"believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact","c":"verified","real":"William James","credited":"","credit":"— William James, \"Is Life Worth Living?\" (1895)","cite":"William James, \"Is Life Worth Living?\" International Journal of Ethics 6, no. 1 (October 1895): 24; reprinted in The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (New York: Longmans, Green, 1897).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William James — American philosopher & psychologist, a founder of pragmatism. Theme: \"Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/believe-that-life-is-worth-living-and-your-belief-will-help/"},{"slug":"better-a-diamond-with-a-flaw-than-a-pebble-without","q":"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without","n":"better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without","c":"disputed","real":"A Chinese proverb","credited":"Confucius","credit":"Chinese proverb, recorded in English by Richard Chenevix Trench in Proverbs and Their Lessons (1853); commonly misattributed to Confucius. — Quotle.info","cite":"Richard Chenevix Trench, \"The Morality of Proverbs,\" in Proverbs and Their Lessons (first published London, 1853): \"in this Chinese proverb which follows, 'Better a diamond with a flaw, than a pebble without one.'\" Cf. Wikiquote, \"Confucius\" (Misattributed).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Jiao Hong (焦竑) — Ming-dynasty Chinese scholar, philosopher & historian. Theme: \"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/better-a-diamond-with-a-flaw-than-a-pebble-without/"},{"slug":"better-to-reign-in-hell-than-serve-in-heaven","q":"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven","n":"better to reign in hell than serve in heaven","c":"verified","real":"John Milton","credited":"","credit":"John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, line 263 (1667) — spoken by Satan","cite":"John Milton, \"Paradise Lost,\" Book I, line 263, in Paradise Lost (London: Peter Parker, 1667).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Milton — English poet & polemicist. Theme: \"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/better-to-reign-in-hell-than-serve-in-heaven/"},{"slug":"better-to-remain-silent-and-be-thought-a-fool-than-to-speak","q":"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt","n":"better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt","c":"disputed","real":"Maurice Switzer","credited":"Abraham Lincoln","credit":"Misattributed to Abraham Lincoln. No evidence he said it; the earliest known version is Maurice Switzer's 1906 book \"Mrs. Goose, Her Book.\" Source: Quote Investigator.","cite":"Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book (New York: Moffat, Yard & Company, 1907; copyright 1906) — earliest documented appearance, per Quote Investigator, \"Better to Remain Silent…,\" 17 May 2010.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Maurice Switzer — American humorist & advertising writer. Theme: \"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/better-to-remain-silent-and-be-thought-a-fool-than-to-speak/"},{"slug":"beware-for-i-am-fearless-and-therefore-powerful","q":"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful","n":"beware for i am fearless and therefore powerful","c":"verified","real":"Mary Shelley","credited":"","credit":"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful. — the Creature, in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818)","cite":"Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, 1818 (rev. ed. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1831), vol. 3, ch. 3 (1818) / ch. 20 (1831).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Mary Shelley — English novelist, essayist & editor. Theme: \"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/beware-for-i-am-fearless-and-therefore-powerful/"},{"slug":"beware-the-leader-who-bangs-the-drums-of-war-in-order-to","q":"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor","n":"beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (anonymous internet author)","credited":"William Shakespeare","credit":"Not Shakespeare and not Julius Caesar. \"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war…\" is an anonymous internet composition first recorded in late 2001; its author is unknown. Barbra Streisand recited it as Shakespeare in 2002 and later conceded the misattribution. — Quotle.info","cite":"\"Julius Caesar and Drums of War.\" Snopes.com. Earliest documented appearance: Internet postings, late 2001; author unknown. No source in Shakespeare or classical antiquity.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Anonymous (unknown author) — author unknown. Theme: \"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/beware-the-leader-who-bangs-the-drums-of-war-in-order-to/"},{"slug":"blessed-is-he-who-has-found-his-work-let-him-ask-no-other","q":"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness","n":"blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness","c":"verified","real":"Thomas Carlyle","credited":"","credit":"Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (1843), Book III, ch. XI \"Labour\"","cite":"Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (London: Chapman and Hall, 1843), Book III, ch. XI, \"Labour.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Carlyle — Scottish essayist, historian & social critic. Theme: \"Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/blessed-is-he-who-has-found-his-work-let-him-ask-no-other/"},{"slug":"blood-sweat-and-tears","q":"Blood, sweat and tears","n":"blood sweat and tears","c":"disputed","real":"Winston Churchill","credited":"Winston Churchill","credit":"Winston Churchill actually said \"blood, toil, tears and sweat\" — House of Commons, 13 May 1940. The popular \"blood, sweat and tears\" is a condensed misquote, and the phrase predates him (Donne, Byron, Roosevelt).","cite":"Winston S. Churchill, speech to the House of Commons, 13 May 1940, in Hansard, HC Deb vol. 360 cols. 1501–1502; text via the International Churchill Society, \"Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Winston Churchill — British statesman, wartime Prime Minister & Nobel laureate in Literature. Theme: \"Blood, sweat and tears\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/blood-sweat-and-tears/"},{"slug":"bubble-bubble-toil-and-trouble","q":"Bubble bubble, toil and trouble","n":"bubble bubble toil and trouble","c":"disputed","real":"William Shakespeare","credited":"A common misremembering","credit":"Misquote of Shakespeare. The real line is \"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble\" — Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1.","cite":"William Shakespeare, \"Macbeth,\" Act 4, Scene 1 (written c. 1606; first printed in the First Folio, 1623). Text: Folger Shakespeare Library and the MIT online Shakespeare.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Shakespeare — English playwright & poet. Theme: \"Bubble bubble, toil and trouble\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/bubble-bubble-toil-and-trouble/"},{"slug":"build-a-better-mousetrap-and-the-world-will-beat-a-path-to","q":"Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door","n":"build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door","c":"disputed","real":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credited":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credit":"Attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson, but the exact \"mousetrap\" wording appears in none of his published works. His 1855 journal expressed the thought using corn, chairs and knives; the famous phrasing surfaced in newspapers after his 1882 death and in Sarah Yule's 1889 compilation Borrowings. Source: Quote Investigator.","cite":"Ralph Waldo Emerson, journal entry on \"Common Fame,\" 1855 (the documented thought); the \"mousetrap\" wording earliest documented in The Atlanta Constitution, 11 May 1882, and in Sarah S. B. Yule, comp., Borrowings (Oakland, CA, 1889).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Ralph Waldo Emerson — American essayist, lecturer & poet. Theme: \"Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/build-a-better-mousetrap-and-the-world-will-beat-a-path-to/"},{"slug":"but-let-judgment-run-down-as-waters-and-righteousness-as-a","q":"But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream","n":"but let judgment run down as waters and righteousness as a mighty stream","c":"verified","real":"The Book of Amos (King James Version)","credited":"","credit":"Amos 5:24, King James Version (1611)","cite":"Amos 5:24, in The Holy Bible, Authorized (King James) Version (London, 1611).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of The Prophet Amos — Hebrew prophet of Israel · Book of Amos, KJV 1611. Theme: \"But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/but-let-judgment-run-down-as-waters-and-righteousness-as-a/"},{"slug":"by-all-means-marry-if-you-get-a-good-wife-youll-become","q":"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher","n":"by all means marry if you get a good wife youll become happy if you get a bad one youll become a philosopher","c":"disputed","real":"Socrates","credited":"Socrates","credit":"Misattributed to Socrates. This marriage epigram appears in no ancient source; its earliest known printings date to 1935–1955, one crediting the wit Sydney Smith. — Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in \"Ex Cathedra,\" The Golden Book Magazine (July 1935), 97; attributed to Sydney Smith in Herbert V. Prochnow, Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (New York: Harper, 1955), 190. Not found in any ancient source. Cf. Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers II.33.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Socrates — Athenian philosopher, teacher of Plato. Theme: \"By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/by-all-means-marry-if-you-get-a-good-wife-youll-become/"},{"slug":"by-failing-to-prepare-you-are-preparing-to-fail","q":"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail","n":"by failing to prepare you are preparing to fail","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (proverbial)","credited":"Benjamin Franklin","credit":"Not Benjamin Franklin. An anonymous proverb, earliest documented 1919 (Rev. H. K. Williams, The Biblical World); the Franklin credit first appeared in 1970. — Quotle.info","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"If You Fail To Prepare You Are Preparing To Fail,\" July 8, 2018. Earliest documented in Rev. H. K. Williams, The Biblical World, vol. 53 (1919); catalogued in Charles Clay Doyle et al., The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Benjamin Franklin — American statesman, printer & author of Poor Richard's Almanack. Theme: \"By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/by-failing-to-prepare-you-are-preparing-to-fail/"},{"slug":"called-or-uncalled-god-will-be-present","q":"Called or uncalled, God will be present","n":"called or uncalled god will be present","c":"disputed","real":"An ancient Delphic oracle, via Erasmus","credited":"Carl Jung","credit":"an ancient Delphic oracle in the Latin of Erasmus (\"Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit\"), adopted by C. G. Jung as his motto; not coined by Jung.","cite":"Desiderius Erasmus, Adagia (16th c.), rendering an ancient Delphic oracle; adopted by C. G. Jung as the inscription \"Vocatus atque non vocatus deus aderit\" over his Küsnacht door and on his gravestone. Cf. Jung's Letters, Vol. 2, 1951–1961.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Desiderius Erasmus — Dutch Renaissance humanist & scholar. Theme: \"Called or uncalled, God will be present\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/called-or-uncalled-god-will-be-present/"},{"slug":"caring-for-myself-is-not-self-indulgence-it-is-self","q":"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation","n":"caring for myself is not self indulgence it is self preservation","c":"verified","real":"Audre Lorde","credited":"","credit":"Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light (1988), p. 125. The full sentence: “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”","cite":"Audre Lorde, A Burst of Light: Essays (Ithaca, N.Y.: Firebrand Books, 1988), 125. Page reference and the journal \"A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer\" per Wikiquote's fully cited entry; the epilogue placement per Sara Ahmed, \"Selfcare as Warfare,\" feministkilljoys, Aug. 25, 2014, which places the line in the epilogue of the book without specifying where in it the line falls.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Audre Lorde — American poet, essayist & civil rights activist. Theme: \"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/caring-for-myself-is-not-self-indulgence-it-is-self/"},{"slug":"carpe-diem","q":"Carpe diem","n":"carpe diem","c":"verified","real":"Horace","credited":"","credit":"Horace, Odes 1.11 (23 BC)","cite":"Horace, Odes 1.11, in Q. Horati Flacci Opera, ed. E. C. Wickham and H. W. Garrod (Oxford: Clarendon Press). Latin text at the Perseus Digital Library. First published 23 BC.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Horace — Roman lyric poet of the Augustan age. Theme: \"Carpe diem\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/carpe-diem/"},{"slug":"cautious-careful-people-always-casting-about-to-preserve","q":"Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation can never effect a reform","n":"cautious careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation can never effect a reform","c":"verified","real":"Susan B. Anthony","credited":"","credit":"Susan B. Anthony — documented in her authorized biography (Ida Husted Harper, 1899, Vol. I, p. 197) from her 1860 divorce-law-reform campaign; the popular one-line wording is a compressed paraphrase of her sentence.","cite":"Susan B. Anthony, quoted in Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, Vol. I (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1899), ch. XII, p. 197, from the 1860 divorce-law-reform campaign (\"Miss Anthony wrote at this time…\"). The one-line version commonly quoted (\"…can never effect a reform\") is a compressed paraphrase of Harper's text (\"…never can bring about a reform\").","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Susan B. Anthony — American suffragist & social reformer. Theme: \"Cautious, careful people always casting about to preserve their reputation can never effect a reform\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/cautious-careful-people-always-casting-about-to-preserve/"},{"slug":"champions-keep-playing-until-they-get-it-right","q":"Champions keep playing until they get it right","n":"champions keep playing until they get it right","c":"attributed","real":"Billie Jean King","credited":"","credit":"attributed to Billie Jean King, though no primary source has ever been documented. Via Quotle.info","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest traceable appearances are undated entries on quote-aggregator sites (Goodreads, BrainyQuote, AZQuotes), all crediting Billie Jean King without citation; AZQuotes labels it a 26 January 2015 Twitter post but links to no tweet.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Billie Jean King — 39-time Grand Slam champion, equality advocate. Theme: \"Champions keep playing until they get it right\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/champions-keep-playing-until-they-get-it-right/"},{"slug":"chance-favors-the-prepared-mind","q":"Chance favors the prepared mind","n":"chance favors the prepared mind","c":"attributed","real":"Louis Pasteur","credited":"","credit":"Louis Pasteur, inaugural lecture at Lille, 7 December 1854 (paraphrased from \"in the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind\")","cite":"Louis Pasteur, inaugural address on the installation of the Faculty of Science at Lille, delivered at Douai, 7 December 1854 (\"Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés\").","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Louis Pasteur — French chemist & microbiologist. Theme: \"Chance favors the prepared mind\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/chance-favors-the-prepared-mind/"},{"slug":"change-is-the-law-of-life-and-those-who-look-only-to-the","q":"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future","n":"change is the law of life and those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future","c":"verified","real":"John F. Kennedy","credited":"","credit":"John F. Kennedy, Address at the Paulskirche, Frankfurt, June 25, 1963. He actually said \"those who look only to the past or the present\" — the popular version drops \"or the present.\"","cite":"John F. Kennedy, \"Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt,\" June 25, 1963, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John F. Kennedy — 35th President of the United States. Theme: \"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/change-is-the-law-of-life-and-those-who-look-only-to-the/"},{"slug":"change-will-not-come-if-we-wait-for-some-other-person-or","q":"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for","n":"change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time we are the ones weve been waiting for","c":"verified","real":"Barack Obama","credited":"","credit":"Barack Obama, Super Tuesday election-night remarks, Chicago, 5 February 2008: \"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.\" The closing sentence is June Jordan's, from \"Poem for South African Women\" (1978). Via Quotle.info","cite":"Barack Obama, \"Remarks Following the 'Super Tuesday' Primaries and Caucuses,\" Chicago, Illinois, February 5, 2008. The American Presidency Project. Closing line adapted from June Jordan, \"Poem for South African Women\" (presented at the United Nations, August 9, 1978), in Directed by Desire: The Complete Poems of June Jordan (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Barack Obama — 44th U.S. president · U.S. senator from Illinois, 2005–2008. Theme: \"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/change-will-not-come-if-we-wait-for-some-other-person-or/"},{"slug":"change-your-life-today-dont-gamble-on-the-future-act-now","q":"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay","n":"change your life today dont gamble on the future act now without delay","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — no documented author","credited":"Simone de Beauvoir","credit":"Unsourced; commonly misattributed to Simone de Beauvoir. Found only in modern quotation compilations, not in her works.","cite":"John Cook, comp., The Book of Positive Quotations, 2nd ed. (Minneapolis: Fairview Press, 2007), p. 548 — a secondary compilation; the line is not traced to any work by Simone de Beauvoir.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Simone de Beauvoir — French existentialist philosopher, writer & feminist. Theme: \"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/change-your-life-today-dont-gamble-on-the-future-act-now/"},{"slug":"character-is-destiny","q":"Character is destiny","n":"character is destiny","c":"attributed","real":"Heraclitus","credited":"","credit":"Character is destiny. —Heraclitus, fragment B119 (ethos anthropoi daimon), literally \"a man's character is his fate.\"","cite":"Heraclitus, fragment DK 22 B119 ( ώ ῳ ί ), preserved in Stobaeus, Anthology 4.40.23; commonly rendered \"a man's character is his fate.\" The English aphorism \"character is destiny\" also appears in George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860), bk. 6, ch. 6, ascribed to Novalis.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Heraclitus — Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Ephesus. Theme: \"Character is destiny\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/character-is-destiny/"},{"slug":"children-are-not-a-distraction-from-more-important-work","q":"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work","n":"children are not a distraction from more important work they are the most important work","c":"disputed","real":"Dr. John Trainer","credited":"C.S. Lewis","credit":"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work. —Dr. John Trainer (2012); popularly misattributed to C.S. Lewis","cite":"Earliest documented as a 30 December 2012 Facebook post by Dr. John Trainer; popularly misattributed to C.S. Lewis. See \"(CCSLQ-10) Children Distraction,\" Essential C.S. Lewis, 31 October 2015.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Dr. John Trainer — credited originator per C.S. Lewis quote researchers. Theme: \"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/children-are-not-a-distraction-from-more-important-work/"},{"slug":"choose-a-job-you-love-and-you-will-never-have-to-work-a-day","q":"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life","n":"choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (a 20th-century American proverb)","credited":"Confucius","credit":"Not Confucius. An anonymous modern American saying; earliest documented in the Princeton Alumni Weekly, 1982, and first credited to Confucius only in 1985. — Quotle.info","cite":"\"Quote Origin: Choose a Job You Love, and You Will Never Have To Work a Day in Your Life,\" Quote Investigator, 2 September 2014. Earliest documented form: Ann Woolfolk, \"Toshiko Takaezu,\" Princeton Alumni Weekly, Vol. 83(5), 6 October 1982, p. 32 (attributed to Arthur Szathmary).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Confucius — Chinese philosopher & teacher (the misattributed figure). Theme: \"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/choose-a-job-you-love-and-you-will-never-have-to-work-a-day/"},{"slug":"cleanliness-is-next-to-godliness","q":"Cleanliness is next to godliness","n":"cleanliness is next to godliness","c":"disputed","real":"John Wesley (popularizer of a pre-existing saying)","credited":"Scripture","credit":"Cleanliness is next to godliness. — an English proverb, not from the Bible; documented in print by 1773 and popularized by John Wesley in his sermon \"On Dress\"","cite":"John Wesley, \"On Dress,\" in The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M., ed. John Emory (New York, 1840), 1:446; earliest documented attestation in Anselm Bayly (1773), per Word Histories.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Wesley — English cleric & founder of Methodism. Theme: \"Cleanliness is next to godliness\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/cleanliness-is-next-to-godliness/"},{"slug":"clouds-come-floating-into-my-life-no-longer-to-carry-rain","q":"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky","n":"clouds come floating into my life no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky","c":"verified","real":"Rabindranath Tagore","credited":"","credit":"Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, verse 292 (Macmillan, 1916). Original wording: \"Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.\"","cite":"Rabindranath Tagore, \"292,\" in Stray Birds (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Rabindranath Tagore — Bengali poet, essayist & composer; 1913 Nobel laureate in Literature. Theme: \"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/clouds-come-floating-into-my-life-no-longer-to-carry-rain/"},{"slug":"collapsing-any-nation-does-not-require-the-use-of-atomic","q":"Collapsing any nation does not require the use of atomic bombs or long-range missiles. It only requires lowering the quality of education and allowing cheating in exams by students. The collapse of education is the collapse of the nation","n":"collapsing any nation does not require the use of atomic bombs or long range missiles it only requires lowering the quality of education and allowing cheating in exams by students the collapse of education is the collapse of the nation","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — an anonymous circulating text","credited":"Nelson Mandela","credit":"Misattributed to Nelson Mandela — an anonymous internet text with no established author (Quotle.info)","cite":"No original author or work established. Earliest documented as an anonymous circulating text (c. 2017); catalogued as misattributed in \"Nelson Mandela,\" Wikiquote, Misattributed section.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Nelson Mandela — Anti-apartheid leader & first democratically elected President of South Africa. Theme: \"Collapsing any nation does not require the use of atomic bombs or long-range missiles. It only requires lowering the quality of education and allowing cheating in exams by students. The collapse of education is the collapse of the nation\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/collapsing-any-nation-does-not-require-the-use-of-atomic/"},{"slug":"coming-together-is-a-beginning-staying-together-is-progress","q":"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, working together is success","n":"coming together is a beginning staying together is progress working together is success","c":"disputed","real":"Edward Everett Hale","credited":"Henry Ford","credit":"'Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, working together is success' is popularly credited to Henry Ford, but there is no evidence he said it. The earliest documented use is a 1927 U.S. presidential budget address crediting Edward Everett Hale — and no original source in Hale's own writing has been found. Quotle.info","cite":"Calvin Coolidge, \"Address of the President of the United States and the Director of the Bureau of the Budget at the Second Semiannual Meeting of the Business Organization of the Government,\" June 10, 1927, quoting Edward Everett Hale. Earliest documented appearance of the saying; no original source in Hale's own works has been located.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Edward Everett Hale — author, historian & Unitarian clergyman. Theme: \"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, working together is success\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/coming-together-is-a-beginning-staying-together-is-progress/"},{"slug":"comparison-is-the-thief-of-joy","q":"Comparison is the thief of joy","n":"comparison is the thief of joy","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — an anonymous modern aphorism","credited":"C.S. Lewis","credit":"Comparison is the thief of joy. — Anonymous (often misattributed to C.S. Lewis, Theodore Roosevelt, or Mark Twain)","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Comparison Is the Thief of Joy,\" QuoteInvestigator.com, 6 February 2021; earliest documented use: Curt Cloninger, Connect2God: Instant Messages from God to Teens (Nashville: J. Countryman, 2004).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of C.S. Lewis — British writer, scholar & Christian apologist. Theme: \"Comparison is the thief of joy\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/comparison-is-the-thief-of-joy/"},{"slug":"compound-interest-is-the-eighth-wonder-of-the-world-he-who","q":"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it","n":"compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world he who understands it earns it he who doesnt pays it","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous advertising copywriter","credited":"Albert Einstein","credit":"Misattributed to Albert Einstein. No evidence he said it; the \"eighth wonder / compound interest\" line traces to an unattributed 1925 bank advertisement (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Source: Quote Investigator.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"The Eighth Wonder of the World Is Compound Interest,\" 9 September 2019, tracing the phrase to a 27 April 1925 advertisement for The Equity Savings & Loan Company, Cleveland Plain Dealer.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Albert Einstein — Theoretical physicist. Theme: \"Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn't, pays it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/compound-interest-is-the-eighth-wonder-of-the-world-he-who/"},{"slug":"confine-yourself-to-the-present","q":"Confine yourself to the present","n":"confine yourself to the present","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"","credit":"Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 7.29 (trans. George Long, 1862, \"Confine thyself to the present\")","cite":"Marcus Aurelius. The Meditations, Book VII, sec. 29. Translated by George Long. London, 1862 (\"Confine thyself to the present\").","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"Confine yourself to the present\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/confine-yourself-to-the-present/"},{"slug":"contentment-is-natural-wealth-luxury-is-artificial-poverty","q":"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty","n":"contentment is natural wealth luxury is artificial poverty","c":"disputed","real":"Joseph Addison","credited":"Socrates","credit":"— actually Joseph Addison, The Spectator No. 574, 30 July 1714. Addison credited only \"Content is natural Wealth\" to Socrates and added \"Luxury is artificial Poverty\" himself; no source has been located for the Socrates half.","cite":"Joseph Addison, \"No. 574,\" The Spectator, Friday, 30 July 1714; text from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, ed. Henry Morley, Project Gutenberg ebook no. 12030. Earliest known appearance of \"Content is natural Wealth … Luxury is artificial Poverty.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Joseph Addison — English essayist, poet & co-founder of The Spectator. Theme: \"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/contentment-is-natural-wealth-luxury-is-artificial-poverty/"},{"slug":"conventionality-is-not-morality","q":"Conventionality is not morality","n":"conventionality is not morality","c":"verified","real":"Charlotte Brontë","credited":"","credit":"Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. — Charlotte Brontë, Preface to the Second Edition of Jane Eyre, 1847","cite":"Brontë, Charlotte [as Currer Bell]. \"Preface to the Second Edition.\" Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. 2nd ed. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1848.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Charlotte Brontë — English novelist. Theme: \"Conventionality is not morality\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/conventionality-is-not-morality/"},{"slug":"courage-is-knowing-what-not-to-fear","q":"Courage is knowing what not to fear","n":"courage is knowing what not to fear","c":"disputed","real":"Werner Jaeger","credited":"Plato","credit":"Not a real Plato quote. “Courage is knowing what not to fear” is a one-liner trimmed from classicist Werner Jaeger's paraphrase of Plato's Protagoras (360d) in Paideia, Vol. II — via Quotle.info","cite":"Werner Jaeger, Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, vol. 2, trans. Gilbert Highet (New York: Oxford University Press, 1943), 122 — paraphrasing Plato, Protagoras 360d (Jowett tr.).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Werner Jaeger — German-American classical scholar. Theme: \"Courage is knowing what not to fear\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/courage-is-knowing-what-not-to-fear/"},{"slug":"courage-is-rightly-esteemed-the-first-of-human-qualities","q":"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others","n":"courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others","c":"disputed","real":"Winston Churchill","credited":"Aristotle","credit":"Winston Churchill, \"Alfonso XIII\" (Collier's, 1931; reprinted in Great Contemporaries, 1937) — often misattributed to Aristotle","cite":"Winston S. Churchill, \"Alfonso XIII,\" Collier's, June 27, 1931, 49; reprinted in Great Contemporaries (London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937). Earliest documented and traced by Quote Investigator (2019).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Winston Churchill — British Prime Minister, war leader & Nobel-laureate author. Theme: \"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/courage-is-rightly-esteemed-the-first-of-human-qualities/"},{"slug":"creative-minds-are-rarely-tidy","q":"Creative minds are rarely tidy","n":"creative minds are rarely tidy","c":"disputed","real":"John W. Gardner","credited":"Carl Jung","credit":"John W. Gardner, Self-Renewal (1964). Often misattributed to Carl Jung. Source: Quotle.info","cite":"John W. Gardner, Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society (New York: Harper & Row, 1964), 49, 69–70. Earliest documented instance per Quote Investigator (2011).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of John W. Gardner — U.S. public official & reformer; author of Self-Renewal. Theme: \"Creative minds are rarely tidy\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/creative-minds-are-rarely-tidy/"},{"slug":"culture-eats-strategy-for-breakfast","q":"Culture eats strategy for breakfast","n":"culture eats strategy for breakfast","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown","credited":"Peter Drucker","credit":"is popularly credited to Peter Drucker, but he never said or wrote it. Per Quote Investigator and Wikiquote, the line first appeared in a 2000 trade-publication article referencing a March 2000 Giga Information Group headline; the actual author is unknown, and Drucker's name was attached only around 2011, six years after his death.","cite":"Bill Moore and Jerry Rose, article in PIMA's North American Papermaker (2000), referencing a March 2000 Giga Information Group headline — as documented in Garson O'Toole, \"Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast,\" Quote Investigator, May 23, 2017.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Peter Drucker — Management theorist & writer. Theme: \"Culture eats strategy for breakfast\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/culture-eats-strategy-for-breakfast/"},{"slug":"damn-it-jim-im-a-doctor-not-a","q":"Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a..","n":"damn it jim im a doctor not a","c":"disputed","real":"Gene L. Coon","credited":"\"Damn it\"","credit":"Gene L. Coon, \"The Devil in the Dark,\" Star Trek, NBC, 9 March 1967. The actual line is \"I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!\" — McCoy never said \"Damn it, Jim\" in the original series.","cite":"Gene L. Coon, \"The Devil in the Dark,\" Star Trek, season 1, episode 25, directed by Joseph Pevney, aired 9 March 1967, on NBC.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Gene L. Coon — Star Trek screenwriter, story editor & showrunner. Theme: \"Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor, not a..\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/damn-it-jim-im-a-doctor-not-a/"},{"slug":"darkness-cannot-drive-out-darkness-only-light-can-do-that","q":"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that","n":"darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that","c":"verified","real":"Martin Luther King Jr.","credited":"","credit":"Martin Luther King Jr., \"Loving Your Enemies,\" in Strength to Love (1963).","cite":"Martin Luther King Jr., \"Loving Your Enemies,\" in Strength to Love (New York: Harper & Row, 1963).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Martin Luther King Jr. — Baptist minister & civil rights leader. Theme: \"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/darkness-cannot-drive-out-darkness-only-light-can-do-that/"},{"slug":"death-hangs-over-thee-whilst-yet-thou-livest-whilst-thou","q":"Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good","n":"death hangs over thee whilst yet thou livest whilst thou mayest be good","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"","credit":"Marcus Aurelius, Meditations IV.17 (trans. Meric Casaubon, 1634)","cite":"Marcus Aurelius, Meditations IV.17, trans. Meric Casaubon (1634); Greek text and parallel translations at readaurelius.org.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"Death hangs over thee: whilst yet thou livest, whilst thou mayest, be good\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/death-hangs-over-thee-whilst-yet-thou-livest-whilst-thou/"},{"slug":"deeds-not-words","q":"Deeds, not words","n":"deeds not words","c":"attributed","real":"Emmeline Pankhurst","credited":"","credit":"Emmeline Pankhurst / WSPU motto (adopted 1903)","cite":"\"Deeds, not words,\" motto of the Women's Social and Political Union (founded 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst); English form of the Latin proverb res, non verba. See Women's Social and Political Union, Wikipedia.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Emmeline Pankhurst — British suffragette leader · founder of the Women's Social and Political Union. Theme: \"Deeds, not words\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/deeds-not-words/"},{"slug":"democracy-is-two-wolves-and-a-lamb-voting-on-what-to-have","q":"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch","n":"democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (falsely credited to Benjamin Franklin)","credited":"Benjamin Franklin","credit":"Anonymous (modern saying, first printed 1987) — often misattributed to Benjamin Franklin","cite":"Earliest documented in Nomos: Studies in Spontaneous Order (1987), 32; author unknown. Attribution to Benjamin Franklin is spurious. See Barry Popik, \"Democracy Is Two Wolves and a Lamb Voting on What To Have For Lunch,\" barrypopik.com.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Benjamin Franklin — American founder, printer & scientist. Theme: \"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/democracy-is-two-wolves-and-a-lamb-voting-on-what-to-have/"},{"slug":"dissent-is-the-highest-form-of-patriotism","q":"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism","n":"dissent is the highest form of patriotism","c":"disputed","real":"Origin unknown","credited":"Thomas Jefferson","credit":"NOT Thomas Jefferson. Monticello lists it as a spurious quotation. Origin unknown; earliest documented as a question in The Use of Force in International Affairs (Friends Peace Committee, 1961), and popularized by various antiwar speakers through the 1960s. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in Friends Peace Committee, The Use of Force in International Affairs (Philadelphia: Friends Peace Committee, 1961), cited in \"Dissent,\" Wikiquote, and in Barry Popik, \"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism,\" The Big Apple. Later documented use: Howard Zinn, interview by Sharon Basco, TomPaine.com, 3 July 2002. Not found in Jefferson's writings; see \"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism … [Spurious Quote],\" Jefferson Quotes & Family Letters, Thomas Jefferson Foundation.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Howard Zinn — American historian & antiwar activist · author of A People's History of the United States. Theme: \"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/dissent-is-the-highest-form-of-patriotism/"},{"slug":"do-not-go-gentle-into-that-good-night","q":"Do not go gentle into that good night","n":"do not go gentle into that good night","c":"verified","real":"Dylan Thomas","credited":"","credit":"Dylan Thomas, \"Do not go gentle into that good night\" (written 1947; first published in Botteghe Oscure, 1951)","cite":"Dylan Thomas, \"Do not go gentle into that good night,\" first published in Botteghe Oscure (1951); collected in In Country Sleep, and Other Poems (New York: New Directions, 1952) and Collected Poems, 1934–1952 (London: Dent, 1952).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Dylan Thomas — Welsh poet and writer. Theme: \"Do not go gentle into that good night\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/do-not-go-gentle-into-that-good-night/"},{"slug":"do-not-only-practice-your-art-but-force-your-way-into-its","q":"Do not only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine","n":"do not only practice your art but force your way into its secrets for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine","c":"verified","real":"Ludwig van Beethoven","credited":"","credit":"—Ludwig van Beethoven, letter to Emilie M., 17 July 1812","cite":"Ludwig van Beethoven to Emilie M. at H., Teplitz, 17 July 1812. German original quoted in Musical News 3 (1892): 627; English translation in Beethoven's Letters, ed. Alfred C. Kalischer, trans. J. S. Shedlock (London, 1909).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Ludwig van Beethoven — German composer & pianist. Theme: \"Do not only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/do-not-only-practice-your-art-but-force-your-way-into-its/"},{"slug":"do-not-spoil-what-you-have-by-desiring-what-you-have-not","q":"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not","n":"do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not","c":"verified","real":"Epicurus","credited":"","credit":"— Epicurus, Vatican Saying 35 (trans. Russel M. Geer, 1964)","cite":"Epicurus. Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings. Translated by Russel M. Geer. Vatican Saying 35. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (Library of Liberal Arts 141), 1964, p. 68.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Epicurus — Greek philosopher, founder of Epicureanism. Theme: \"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/do-not-spoil-what-you-have-by-desiring-what-you-have-not/"},{"slug":"do-one-thing-every-day-that-scares-you","q":"Do one thing every day that scares you","n":"do one thing every day that scares you","c":"disputed","real":"Mary Schmich","credited":"Eleanor Roosevelt","credit":"— Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune, 1997 (not Eleanor Roosevelt)","cite":"Mary Schmich, \"Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young,\" Chicago Tribune, 1 June 1997. Origin traced in Quote Investigator, \"Do One Thing Every Day That Scares You,\" 9 August 2013.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Mary Schmich — Chicago Tribune columnist. Theme: \"Do one thing every day that scares you\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/do-one-thing-every-day-that-scares-you/"},{"slug":"do-what-you-can-with-what-you-have-where-you-are","q":"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are","n":"do what you can with what you have where you are","c":"disputed","real":"Squire Bill Widener","credited":"Theodore Roosevelt","credit":"Squire Bill Widener, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt's \"An Autobiography\" (1913): \"Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.\" — often misattributed to Roosevelt himself.","cite":"Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913), ch. IX, \"Outdoors and Indoors,\" 337–365, quoting Squire Bill Widener of Widener's Valley, Virginia.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Squire Bill Widener — farmer, Widener's Valley, Virginia. Theme: \"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/do-what-you-can-with-what-you-have-where-you-are/"},{"slug":"do-what-you-can-with-what-youve-got-where-you-are","q":"Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are","n":"do what you can with what youve got where you are","c":"disputed","real":"Squire Bill Widener","credited":"Theodore Roosevelt","credit":"Squire Bill Widener, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (1913)","cite":"Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography, ch. IX \"Outdoors and Indoors\" (New York: Macmillan, 1913), quoting Squire Bill Widener of Widener's Valley, Virginia.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Squire Bill Widener — the man Roosevelt actually quoted. Theme: \"Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/do-what-you-can-with-what-youve-got-where-you-are/"},{"slug":"do-you-feel-lucky-punk","q":"Do you feel lucky, punk?","n":"do you feel lucky punk","c":"disputed","real":"Harry Julian Fink, R. M. Fink & Dean Riesner","credited":"\"Do you feel lucky\"","credit":"Insp. Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Dirty Harry (1971); screenplay by Harry Julian Fink, R. M. Fink and Dean Riesner. Commonly misquoted as \"Do you feel lucky, punk?\" — a line never spoken in the film.","cite":"Dirty Harry, directed by Don Siegel, screenplay by Harry Julian Fink, R. M. Fink, and Dean Riesner, story by Harry Julian Fink and R. M. Fink (Burbank, CA: Warner Bros., Inc. / The Malpaso Company, 1971), copyright registered 22 December 1971, LP41628. Line ranked No. 51 in the American Film Institute's 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes (2005).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Harry Julian Fink, R. M. Fink & Dean Riesner — Dirty Harry (1971), Warner Bros. / The Malpaso Company. Theme: \"Do you feel lucky, punk?\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/do-you-feel-lucky-punk/"},{"slug":"dont-cry-because-its-over-smile-because-it-happened","q":"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened","n":"dont cry because its over smile because it happened","c":"disputed","real":"Ludwig Jacobowski","credited":"Dr. Seuss","credit":"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. —Anonymous; adapted from Ludwig Jacobowski, \"Leuchtende Tage\" (1899). Commonly misattributed to Dr. Seuss.","cite":"Jacobowski, Ludwig. \"Leuchtende Tage.\" Das Magazin für Litteratur, August 1899. Collected in Leuchtende Tage: Neue Gedichte 1896–1898. Minden: J. C. C. Bruns, 1900.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) — American children's author, poet & cartoonist. Theme: \"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/dont-cry-because-its-over-smile-because-it-happened/"},{"slug":"dont-find-fault-find-a-remedy","q":"Don't find fault, find a remedy","n":"dont find fault find a remedy","c":"attributed","real":"Henry Ford","credited":"","credit":"attributed to Henry Ford (widely credited, but no primary source located)","cite":"Attributed to Henry Ford; no primary source located. Not found in Henry Ford with Samuel Crowther, My Life and Work (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922), nor among the authenticated quotations maintained by The Henry Ford.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry Ford — American industrialist. Theme: \"Don't find fault, find a remedy\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/dont-find-fault-find-a-remedy/"},{"slug":"dont-grieve-anything-you-lose-comes-round-in-another-form","q":"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form","n":"dont grieve anything you lose comes round in another form","c":"attributed","real":"Rumi","credited":"","credit":"— Rumi, \"Unmarked Boxes\" (rendered by Coleman Barks), from The Essential Rumi, 1995","cite":"Jalal al-Din Rumi, \"Unmarked Boxes,\" in Open Secret: Versions of Rumi, trans. John Moyne and Coleman Barks (Putney, VT: Threshold Books, 1984); repr. in The Essential Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks with John Moyne (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995). Based on Rumi's Ode 1937, Divan-e Shams-e Tabrizi.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Rumi — Persian Sufi poet & mystic. Theme: \"Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/dont-grieve-anything-you-lose-comes-round-in-another-form/"},{"slug":"dont-limit-a-child-to-your-own-learning-for-he-was-born-in","q":"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time","n":"dont limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (Arabic & Rabbinic proverb tradition)","credited":"Rabindranath Tagore","credit":"Anonymous proverb (Arabic / Rabbinic tradition), documented from 1877 — not Rabindranath Tagore. Per Quote Investigator.","cite":"Anonymous. \"Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.\" Earliest documented in Gems of the Orient, comp. Rev. A. Huebsch (1877), \"Arabic Proverbs and Sentences\"; modern wording in Leo Rosten's Treasury of Jewish Quotations (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972). Chronology per Quote Investigator.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Anonymous (Arabic & Rabbinic proverb tradition) — variously labelled an Arabic proverb, a Talmudic saying, and a Rabbinic saying. Theme: \"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/dont-limit-a-child-to-your-own-learning-for-he-was-born-in/"},{"slug":"dont-limit-yourself-many-people-limit-themselves-to-what","q":"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do","n":"dont limit yourself many people limit themselves to what they think they can do","c":"attributed","real":"Mary Kay Ash","credited":"","credit":"— Mary Kay Ash (attributed)","cite":"Attributed to Mary Kay Ash; earliest documented appearances are undated entries on quote-aggregator sites (e.g. Goodreads, BrainyQuote). No primary book, speech, or interview source has been located.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Mary Kay Ash — American businesswoman · Founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics. Theme: \"Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/dont-limit-yourself-many-people-limit-themselves-to-what/"},{"slug":"dost-thou-love-life-then-do-not-squander-time-for-thats-the","q":"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of","n":"dost thou love life then do not squander time for thats the stuff life is made of","c":"verified","real":"Benjamin Franklin","credited":"","credit":"Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1746); restated in \"The Way to Wealth\" (1758)","cite":"Benjamin Franklin [as Richard Saunders], Poor Richard, 1746 (Philadelphia: B. Franklin, 1745); repeated in Franklin, \"The Way to Wealth,\" preface to Poor Richard Improved (1758).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Benjamin Franklin — American founding father, printer, scientist & almanac-maker. Theme: \"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/dost-thou-love-life-then-do-not-squander-time-for-thats-the/"},{"slug":"doubt-is-not-a-pleasant-condition-but-certainty-is-absurd","q":"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd","n":"doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is absurd","c":"verified","real":"Voltaire","credited":"","credit":"Voltaire, letter to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia, 28 November 1770 (trans. S. G. Tallentyre, \"Voltaire in His Letters,\" 1919).","cite":"Voltaire to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia, 28 November 1770, in Voltaire in His Letters: Being a Selection from His Correspondence, trans. S. G. Tallentyre (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919), 232.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Voltaire — French Enlightenment philosopher. Theme: \"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/doubt-is-not-a-pleasant-condition-but-certainty-is-absurd/"},{"slug":"doubt-is-not-a-pleasant-condition-but-certainty-is-an","q":"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one","n":"doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one","c":"verified","real":"Voltaire","credited":"","credit":"Voltaire, letter to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia, 28 November 1770 (trans. S. G. Tallentyre, \"Voltaire in His Letters,\" 1919)","cite":"Voltaire to Frederick William, Prince of Prussia, 28 November 1770, in S. G. Tallentyre, ed. and trans., Voltaire in His Letters (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1919), 232. French: \"Le doute n'est pas un état bien agréable, mais l'assurance est un état ridicule.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Voltaire — French Enlightenment writer, philosopher & satirist. Theme: \"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/doubt-is-not-a-pleasant-condition-but-certainty-is-an/"},{"slug":"doubt-is-the-origin-of-wisdom","q":"Doubt is the origin of wisdom","n":"doubt is the origin of wisdom","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — not René Descartes","credited":"René Descartes","credit":"Misattributed to René Descartes. The line \"Doubt is the origin of wisdom\" (Latin \"Dubium sapientiae initium\") appears in none of Descartes' works; per Wikiquote it is misattributed, with the Latin surfacing in an 1880 footnote to Publilius Syrus. Descartes' genuine doubt-passage is in Principles of Philosophy, Part 1, Art. 1 (1644).","cite":"Earliest documented as a Descartes attribution in modern quote collections; per Wikiquote, \"René Descartes\" (Misattributed), the Latin \"Dubium sapientiae initium\" appears in a footnote to Publilii Syri mimi Sententiae (1880 ed.), not in Descartes. Genuine parallel: Descartes, Principles of Philosophy (Principia Philosophiae), Part 1, Art. 1 (1644).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of René Descartes — French philosopher, mathematician & founder of modern rationalism. Theme: \"Doubt is the origin of wisdom\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/doubt-is-the-origin-of-wisdom/"},{"slug":"drama-is-life-with-the-dull-bits-cut-out","q":"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out","n":"drama is life with the dull bits cut out","c":"verified","real":"Alfred Hitchcock","credited":"","credit":"Alfred Hitchcock, speaking after a preview of The Man Who Knew Too Much; reported by Leonard Lyons, \"The Lyons Den,\" March 2, 1956. Via quotle.info","cite":"Leonard Lyons, \"The Lyons Den,\" Pittsburgh Press, March 2, 1956, 19; syndicated the same day in the Reading Eagle, March 2, 1956, 10. Restated in François Truffaut, Hitchcock (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1967), 71.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Alfred Hitchcock — English film director, the \"Master of Suspense\". Theme: \"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/drama-is-life-with-the-dull-bits-cut-out/"},{"slug":"dreaming-after-all-is-a-form-of-planning","q":"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning","n":"dreaming after all is a form of planning","c":"attributed","real":"Gloria Steinem","credited":"","credit":"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. — attributed to Gloria Steinem (widely credited; no primary source documented)","cite":"Gloria Steinem, quotation widely attributed but without a documented primary source; frequently associated with her Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem (1992), though the exact wording has not been confirmed to any page. Earliest traceable attestations are secondary quotation collections.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Gloria Steinem — American feminist, journalist & activist. Theme: \"Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/dreaming-after-all-is-a-form-of-planning/"},{"slug":"duty-makes-us-do-things-well-but-love-makes-us-do-them","q":"Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully","n":"duty makes us do things well but love makes us do them beautifully","c":"disputed","real":"Phillips Brooks","credited":"Zig Ziglar","credit":"Attributed to Phillips Brooks (1835–1893); earliest documented in Primary Education (1916), p. 190. Not originated by Zig Ziglar.","cite":"\"Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.\" Attributed to Phillips Brooks; earliest documented in Primary Education (Boston, 1916), p. 190.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Phillips Brooks — American Episcopal clergyman & hymn-writer. Theme: \"Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/duty-makes-us-do-things-well-but-love-makes-us-do-them/"},{"slug":"each-friend-represents-a-world-in-us-a-world-not-born-until","q":"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive","n":"each friend represents a world in us a world not born until they arrive","c":"attributed","real":"Anaïs Nin","credited":"","credit":"attributed to Anaïs Nin, diary entry dated March 1937. Note: the widely shared version drops the word \"possibly,\" and no volume or page has been confirmed. Via quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented as a diary entry dated March 1937: Wikiquote, \"Anaïs Nin,\" Diary entries (1914–1974). That date falls within the span of Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume Two: 1934–1939, ed. Gunther Stuhlmann (Swallow Press / Harcourt, Brace & World) — not verified at page level.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Anaïs Nin — French-born American diarist and novelist. Theme: \"Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/each-friend-represents-a-world-in-us-a-world-not-born-until/"},{"slug":"each-person-must-live-their-life-as-a-model-for-others","q":"Each person must live their life as a model for others","n":"each person must live their life as a model for others","c":"attributed","real":"Rosa Parks","credited":"","credit":"Each person must live their life as a model for others. — attributed to Rosa Parks (no documented primary source located)","cite":"Attributed to Rosa Parks; widely circulated via online quote databases (Goodreads, BrainyQuote) and social media without a primary citation. No documented source located; the frequently named Quiet Strength (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1994) could not be confirmed to contain this wording.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Rosa Parks — American civil rights activist, \"Mother of the Civil Rights Movement\". Theme: \"Each person must live their life as a model for others\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/each-person-must-live-their-life-as-a-model-for-others/"},{"slug":"education-is-a-progressive-discovery-of-our-own-ignorance","q":"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance","n":"education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance","c":"attributed","real":"Will Durant","credited":"","credit":"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. —Will Durant, quoted in Time magazine, 1965","cite":"Will Durant, quoted in \"Teachers: The Essence of the Centuries,\" Time, August 13, 1965 (per Wikiquote's sourced section). Earliest documented appearance; the exact Time article cited varies across references.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Will Durant — American historian and philosopher; co-author of The Story of Civilization. Theme: \"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/education-is-a-progressive-discovery-of-our-own-ignorance/"},{"slug":"education-is-not-the-filling-of-a-pail-but-the-lighting-of","q":"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire","n":"education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire","c":"disputed","real":"Plutarch","credited":"William Butler Yeats","credit":"Plutarch (paraphrased) — often misattributed to William Butler Yeats","cite":"Plutarch. \"On Listening to Lectures\" (De Auditu), in Moralia, Volume I. Translated by Frank Cole Babbitt. Loeb Classical Library 197. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Plutarch — Greek biographer, essayist & Middle Platonist philosopher. Theme: \"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/education-is-not-the-filling-of-a-pail-but-the-lighting-of/"},{"slug":"education-is-the-kindling-of-a-flame-not-the-filling-of-a","q":"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel","n":"education is the kindling of a flame not the filling of a vessel","c":"disputed","real":"Plutarch","credited":"Socrates","credit":"Not Socrates. The idea is Plutarch's, from the Moralia essay \"On Listening to Lectures\": \"the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.\" The exact wording \"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel\" is a modern paraphrase first credited to Socrates in 1966. — Quotle.info","cite":"Plutarch. \"On Listening to Lectures\" (De auditu), in Moralia. Trans. Robin Waterfield, Penguin Classics, 1992. Origin and misattribution history documented in Quote Investigator, \"The Mind Is Not a Vessel That Needs Filling, But Wood That Needs Igniting,\" 28 March 2013.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Plutarch — Greek historian, biographer & philosopher. Theme: \"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/education-is-the-kindling-of-a-flame-not-the-filling-of-a/"},{"slug":"education-is-the-most-powerful-weapon-which-you-can-use-to","q":"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world","n":"education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world","c":"verified","real":"Nelson Mandela","credited":"","credit":"Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world. — Nelson Mandela, launch of the Mindset Network, Johannesburg, 16 July 2003","cite":"Nelson Mandela, \"Lighting Your Way to a Better Future\" (speech at the launch of the Mindset Network, Johannesburg, South Africa, 16 July 2003).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Nelson Mandela — statesman · first President of a democratic South Africa. Theme: \"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/education-is-the-most-powerful-weapon-which-you-can-use-to/"},{"slug":"education-is-the-passport-to-the-future","q":"Education is the passport to the future","n":"education is the passport to the future","c":"verified","real":"Malcolm X","credited":"","credit":"Malcolm X, Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity, 28 June 1964 (in By Any Means Necessary, 1970)","cite":"Malcolm X, \"Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity\" (speech, Audubon Ballroom, New York, 28 June 1964), in By Any Means Necessary (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1970).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Malcolm X — Black nationalist leader & human-rights activist. Theme: \"Education is the passport to the future\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/education-is-the-passport-to-the-future/"},{"slug":"either-you-are-with-us-or-you-are-with-the-terrorists","q":"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists","n":"either you are with us or you are with the terrorists","c":"verified","real":"George W. Bush","credited":"","credit":"— George W. Bush, Address to a Joint Session of Congress, 20 September 2001","cite":"George W. Bush, \"Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People,\" U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., September 20, 2001. Transcript, White House Office of the Press Secretary.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of George W. Bush — 43rd President of the United States (2001–2009). Theme: \"Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/either-you-are-with-us-or-you-are-with-the-terrorists/"},{"slug":"elegance-is-the-only-beauty-that-never-fades","q":"Elegance is the only beauty that never fades","n":"elegance is the only beauty that never fades","c":"disputed","real":"Audrey Hepburn","credited":"Audrey Hepburn","credit":"Attributed to Audrey Hepburn, but with no documented source; likely an undocumented modern saying.","cite":"No documented primary source located. Widely attributed to Audrey Hepburn on quote-aggregation sites (e.g. Goodreads, QuoteFancy) without citation; absent from Wikiquote's Audrey Hepburn entry.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Audrey Hepburn — Belgian-born British actress & humanitarian. Theme: \"Elegance is the only beauty that never fades\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/elegance-is-the-only-beauty-that-never-fades/"},{"slug":"elementary-my-dear-watson","q":"Elementary, my dear Watson","n":"elementary my dear watson","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown","credited":"Arthur Conan Doyle","credit":"not Arthur Conan Doyle. The phrase appears in none of his 60 Sherlock Holmes stories; the closest is \"Elementary,\" said he, in \"The Adventure of the Crooked Man\" (1893). Its earliest known exact match is a courtroom joke in The Globe and Traveller, London, 27 February 1908, and its coiner is unknown. Via Quotle.info","cite":"No canonical source: the phrase appears in none of Arthur Conan Doyle's sixty Sherlock Holmes stories. Earliest documented exact match: \"Elementary, my dear Watson,\" courtroom item, The Globe and Traveller (London), 27 February 1908, documented in Quote Investigator, \"Quote Origin: Elementary, My Dear Watson,\" 14 July 2016, and in Word Histories, \"elementary, my dear Watson: meaning and early occurrences,\" 6 September 2024. Closest canonical wording: Arthur Conan Doyle, \"The Adventure of the Crooked Man,\" in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (1893).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Arthur Conan Doyle — British physician and writer · creator of Sherlock Holmes. Theme: \"Elementary, my dear Watson\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/elementary-my-dear-watson/"},{"slug":"empathy-is-the-highest-form-of-knowledge","q":"Empathy is the highest form of knowledge","n":"empathy is the highest form of knowledge","c":"disputed","real":"Bill Bullard","credited":"Plato","credit":"Not Plato. Traced to educator Bill Bullard's commencement speech at San Francisco University High School (documented online in 2007); Bullard himself credited George Eliot, an attribution that is also unsupported. — Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in Bill Bullard, commencement address, San Francisco University High School, quoted in Ben Casnocha, \"Three Things to Unlearn from School,\" casnocha.com, 11 July 2007; catalogued as misattributed to Plato in Wikiquote, \"Plato.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Bill Bullard — former Dean of Faculty, San Francisco University High School. Theme: \"Empathy is the highest form of knowledge\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/empathy-is-the-highest-form-of-knowledge/"},{"slug":"energy-and-persistence-conquer-all-things","q":"Energy and persistence conquer all things","n":"energy and persistence conquer all things","c":"attributed","real":"Benjamin Franklin","credited":"","credit":"Energy and persistence conquer all things. — attributed to Benjamin Franklin (no primary source; consistent with his Poor Richard's Almanack, but not in his papers)","cite":"Attributed to Benjamin Franklin; no primary source located. The exact wording does not appear in Leonard W. Labaree et al., eds., The Papers of Benjamin Franklin (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959– ), as digitized at Founders Online, nor among his quotations on Wikiquote.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Benjamin Franklin — American printer, scientist and statesman. Theme: \"Energy and persistence conquer all things\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/energy-and-persistence-conquer-all-things/"},{"slug":"england-and-america-are-two-countries-separated-by-a-common","q":"England and America are two countries separated by a common language","n":"england and america are two countries separated by a common language","c":"attributed","real":"George Bernard Shaw","credited":"George Bernard Shaw","credit":"Attributed to George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), but found in none of his works; first appears in print in 1942 already credited to him. Origin uncertain. — verified by Quotle.info","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Britain and America Are Two Nations Divided by a Common Language,\" April 3, 2016; earliest attestation reported in The Christian Science Monitor, September 5, 1942.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of George Bernard Shaw — Irish playwright, critic & Nobel laureate. Theme: \"England and America are two countries separated by a common language\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/england-and-america-are-two-countries-separated-by-a-common/"},{"slug":"england-is-a-nation-of-shopkeepers","q":"England is a nation of shopkeepers","n":"england is a nation of shopkeepers","c":"disputed","real":"Adam Smith","credited":"Napoleon Bonaparte","credit":"Phrase originates with Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations (1776); popularised as an anti-British insult by Bertrand Barère (1794). Commonly misattributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, who most likely never said it.","cite":"Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1776), bk. IV, ch. 7; disparaging usage from Bertrand Barère, National Convention, June 1794.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Adam Smith — Scottish economist & moral philosopher. Theme: \"England is a nation of shopkeepers\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/england-is-a-nation-of-shopkeepers/"},{"slug":"enjoy-the-little-things-in-life-for-one-day-youll-look-back","q":"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things","n":"enjoy the little things in life for one day youll look back and realize they were the big things","c":"disputed","real":"Robert Brault","credited":"Kurt Vonnegut","credit":"Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things. —Robert Brault (frequently misattributed to Kurt Vonnegut)","cite":"Robert Brault, aphorism first published in the National Enquirer (1985); reprinted in Reader's Digest, \"Quotable Quotes,\" September 1986, p. 139; anthologized in The Book of Positive Quotations (Minneapolis: Fairview Press, 1997).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Robert Brault — American aphorist & freelance writer. Theme: \"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/enjoy-the-little-things-in-life-for-one-day-youll-look-back/"},{"slug":"eureka-i-have-found-it","q":"Eureka! I have found it!","n":"eureka i have found it","c":"attributed","real":"Archimedes","credited":"","credit":"attributed to Archimedes (c. 287–c. 212 BC). First recorded by Vitruvius, De architectura, Book IX, preface, first century BC — roughly two centuries after Archimedes' death, and not mentioned in his own surviving writings. \"Eureka\" already means \"I have found it\"; the English half of the popular version is a translator's gloss. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Vitruvius. The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Book IX, preface. Translated by Joseph Gwilt. London: Priestley and Weale, 1826. Also Vitruvius, The Ten Books on Architecture, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1914), 253–54.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Archimedes — Greek mathematician, physicist & engineer of Syracuse. Theme: \"Eureka! I have found it!\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/eureka-i-have-found-it/"},{"slug":"even-a-stopped-clock-is-right-twice-a-day","q":"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day","n":"even a stopped clock is right twice a day","c":"disputed","real":"Joseph Addison","credited":"Paulo Coelho","credit":"Traditional English proverb (not original to Paulo Coelho); earliest documented in Joseph Addison's The Spectator, 1711.","cite":"Earliest documented in Joseph Addison, The Spectator, no. 129 (1711); later quoted by Paulo Coelho, Brida, trans. Margaret Jull Costa (London: HarperCollins, 2008; orig. Portuguese, 1990).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Joseph Addison — English essayist & co-founder of The Spectator. Theme: \"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/even-a-stopped-clock-is-right-twice-a-day/"},{"slug":"even-if-i-knew-that-tomorrow-the-world-would-go-to-pieces-i","q":"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree","n":"even if i knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces i would still plant my apple tree","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — a 20th-century German saying","credited":"Martin Luther King Jr.","credit":"Misattributed to Martin Luther King Jr. (and to Martin Luther the reformer). The line is in neither man's works; its earliest record is a German Confessing Church circular of October 1944, author unknown.","cite":"Earliest documented in a circular letter of the Confessing Church, Hesse (Pastor Karl Lotz), 5 October 1944; see Martin Schloemann, Luthers Apfelbäumchen? Ein Kapitel deutscher Mentalitätsgeschichte seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Martin Luther — German reformer & theologian. Theme: \"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/even-if-i-knew-that-tomorrow-the-world-would-go-to-pieces-i/"},{"slug":"even-the-darkest-night-will-end-and-the-sun-will-rise","q":"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise","n":"even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise","c":"disputed","real":"Herbert Kretzmer","credited":"Victor Hugo (novelist)","credit":"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise. — Herbert Kretzmer, Les Misérables (1985 stage musical)","cite":"Kretzmer, Herbert (lyrics). \"Finale.\" In Les Misérables (English-language stage musical), music by Claude-Michel Schönberg, book by Alain Boublil and Jean-Marc Natel. London: Barbican Theatre / Cameron Mackintosh, 1985.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Herbert Kretzmer — South African-born British journalist & lyricist. Theme: \"Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/even-the-darkest-night-will-end-and-the-sun-will-rise/"},{"slug":"every-artist-was-first-an-amateur","q":"Every artist was first an amateur","n":"every artist was first an amateur","c":"verified","real":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credited":"","credit":"Every artist was first an amateur. —Ralph Waldo Emerson, \"Progress of Culture,\" Letters and Social Aims (1876)","cite":"Ralph Waldo Emerson, \"Progress of Culture,\" in Letters and Social Aims (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1876).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Ralph Waldo Emerson — American essayist, poet and leader of Transcendentalism. Theme: \"Every artist was first an amateur\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/every-artist-was-first-an-amateur/"},{"slug":"every-child-is-an-artist-the-problem-is-how-to-remain-an","q":"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up","n":"every child is an artist the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up","c":"disputed","real":"Pablo Picasso","credited":"No documented source in Picasso's own words","credit":"Widely attributed to Pablo Picasso, but disputed — no primary source exists; the line first appears in Time magazine in 1976, three years after his death.","cite":"Earliest documented in \"Modern Living: Ozmosis in Central Park,\" Time, 4 October 1976 (source-less epigraph); investigated in Garson O'Toole, \"Every Child Is an Artist…,\" Quote Investigator, 7 March 2015.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Pablo Picasso — Spanish painter, sculptor & co-founder of Cubism. Theme: \"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/every-child-is-an-artist-the-problem-is-how-to-remain-an/"},{"slug":"every-man-is-guilty-of-all-the-good-he-did-not-do","q":"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do","n":"every man is guilty of all the good he did not do","c":"verified","real":"Voltaire","credited":"","credit":"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do. —commonly credited to Voltaire; it is a paraphrase of his line in The Age of Louis XIV (1751), where he wrote that a minister of state \"is guilty of all the good he does not do.\"","cite":"Voltaire. Le Siècle de Louis XIV. 1751. Ch. VI (\"A minister of state… is guilty of all the good he does not do\"); the popular \"Every man…\" wording is a later paraphrase.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Voltaire — French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosophe. Theme: \"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/every-man-is-guilty-of-all-the-good-he-did-not-do/"},{"slug":"every-moment-is-a-fresh-beginning","q":"Every moment is a fresh beginning","n":"every moment is a fresh beginning","c":"verified","real":"T. S. Eliot","credited":"","credit":"— T. S. Eliot","cite":"Eliot, T. S. The Cocktail Party: A Comedy. London: Faber and Faber, 1950 (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950), Act III.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of T. S. Eliot — American-born British poet, playwright, essayist & Nobel laureate. Theme: \"Every moment is a fresh beginning\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/every-moment-is-a-fresh-beginning/"},{"slug":"every-society-honors-its-live-conformists-and-its-dead","q":"Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers","n":"every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers","c":"verified","real":"Mignon McLaughlin","credited":"Wayne Dyer","credit":"Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook (1963), p. 72 — frequently misattributed to Wayne Dyer and Marshall McLuhan","cite":"Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1963), chapter 7 (\"Politics, Arts, Professions\"), 72. Earliest documented instance per Quote Investigator, which reports the page verified with scans.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Mignon McLaughlin — American journalist, magazine editor and aphorist. Theme: \"Every society honors its live conformists, and its dead troublemakers\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/every-society-honors-its-live-conformists-and-its-dead/"},{"slug":"every-soldier-carries-a-marshals-baton-in-his-knapsack","q":"Every soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack","n":"every soldier carries a marshals baton in his knapsack","c":"disputed","real":"Louis XVIII of France","credited":"Napoleon Bonaparte","credit":"Louis XVIII of France, to the cadets of Saint-Cyr, Saint-Cloud, 8 August 1819 (long misattributed to Napoleon)","cite":"[Louis XVIII], speech to the cadets of Saint-Cyr at Saint-Cloud, 8 August 1819; discussed in K. V. Dushenko, \"'Every soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack,'\" Herald of Culturology, no. 2 (2019).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Louis XVIII of France — King of France, 1814–1824 · Bourbon Restoration. Theme: \"Every soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/every-soldier-carries-a-marshals-baton-in-his-knapsack/"},{"slug":"everybody-gets-so-much-information-all-day-long-that-they","q":"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense","n":"everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense","c":"verified","real":"Gertrude Stein","credited":"","credit":"Gertrude Stein, \"Reflection on the Atom Bomb\" (written 1946; Yale Poetry Review, December 1947)","cite":"Gertrude Stein, \"Reflection on the Atom Bomb,\" Yale Poetry Review (December 1947); written 1946. Reprinted in Reflection on the Atomic Bomb, ed. Robert Bartlett Haas (Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Gertrude Stein — American modernist writer & art collector. Theme: \"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/everybody-gets-so-much-information-all-day-long-that-they/"},{"slug":"everybody-is-a-genius-but-if-you-judge-a-fish-by-its","q":"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid","n":"everybody is a genius but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — falsely credited to Einstein","credited":"Albert Einstein","credit":"Misattributed to Albert Einstein — no evidence he said it; earliest documented appearance 2004 in Matthew Kelly's The Rhythm of Life. Source: Quote Investigator, quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/06/fish-climb/","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Everybody Is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability To Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It Is Stupid,\" quoteinvestigator.com, 6 April 2013. Earliest documented instance: Matthew Kelly, The Rhythm of Life (New York: Fireside, 2004).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Albert Einstein — Theoretical physicist · quote misattributed to him. Theme: \"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/everybody-is-a-genius-but-if-you-judge-a-fish-by-its/"},{"slug":"everyone-sees-what-you-appear-to-be-few-experience-what-you","q":"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are","n":"everyone sees what you appear to be few experience what you really are","c":"verified","real":"Niccolò Machiavelli","credited":"","credit":"Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1532), ch. 18 — \"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are\" (from the Italian \"Ognuno vede quello che tu pari, pochi sentono quello che tu se'\").","cite":"Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. W. K. Marriott (London: J. M. Dent, 1908), chap. 18; orig. Il Principe (1532).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Niccolò Machiavelli — Florentine diplomat & political theorist. Theme: \"Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/everyone-sees-what-you-appear-to-be-few-experience-what-you/"},{"slug":"everyone-thinks-of-changing-the-world-but-no-one-thinks-of","q":"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself","n":"everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself","c":"disputed","real":"Leo Tolstoy","credited":"Quote sites (Goodreads, BrainyQuote, AZQuotes, and others)","credit":"Leo Tolstoy — but this exact wording is a later paraphrase, not his own","cite":"Tolstoy, Leo. \"Three Methods of Reform.\" In Pamphlets: Translated from the Russian, translated by Aylmer Maude. Christchurch, England: Free Age Press, 1900.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Leo Tolstoy — Russian novelist & Christian moral philosopher. Theme: \"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/everyone-thinks-of-changing-the-world-but-no-one-thinks-of/"},{"slug":"everything-is-connected-to-everything-else","q":"Everything is connected to everything else","n":"everything is connected to everything else","c":"disputed","real":"Barry Commoner","credited":"Leonardo da Vinci","credit":"Not Leonardo da Vinci. \"Everything is connected to everything else\" is the first of Barry Commoner's four laws of ecology, from The Closing Circle (1971).","cite":"Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1971), first of the four \"laws of ecology.\" Earliest da Vinci attribution documented in the Regina Sun (1991), per Quote Investigator.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Barry Commoner — American biologist, ecologist & environmental activist. Theme: \"Everything is connected to everything else\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/everything-is-connected-to-everything-else/"},{"slug":"everything-is-energy-and-thats-all-there-is-to-it-match-the","q":"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","n":"everything is energy and thats all there is to it match the frequency of the reality you want and you cannot help but get that reality","c":"disputed","real":"Darryl Anka","credited":"Albert Einstein","credit":"Not Albert Einstein. The wording comes from Darryl Anka's channeled \"Bashar\" material, copyright 1996 (per Quote Investigator).","cite":"Bashar (channeled by Darryl Anka), \"The Ides of March,\" bashar.org, copyright 1996 (earliest archived 8 April 2000). Attribution investigated in \"Quote Origin: Everything Is Energy and That's All There Is To It,\" Quote Investigator, 16 May 2012.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Darryl Anka — American–Canadian channeler & visual-effects artist. Theme: \"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\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/everything-is-energy-and-thats-all-there-is-to-it-match-the/"},{"slug":"everything-that-is-done-in-the-world-is-done-by-hope","q":"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope","n":"everything that is done in the world is done by hope","c":"disputed","real":"Martin Luther","credited":"Martin Luther King Jr.","credit":"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. —Martin Luther, Table Talk (no. CCXCVIII)","cite":"Martin Luther, The Table Talk of Martin Luther, no. CCXCVIII, trans. William Hazlitt (London: H. G. Bohn, 1857; orig. Tischreden, 1566).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Martin Luther — German theologian & leader of the Protestant Reformation. Theme: \"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/everything-that-is-done-in-the-world-is-done-by-hope/"},{"slug":"everything-we-hear-is-an-opinion-not-a-fact-everything-we","q":"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth","n":"everything we hear is an opinion not a fact everything we see is a perspective not the truth","c":"disputed","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"Marcus Aurelius","credit":"Misattributed to Marcus Aurelius. This exact wording appears in none of his works; it is a modern paraphrase loosely based on Meditations 2.15 (“all is but opinion”). Verified by Quotle.info.","cite":"Angie Drobnic Holan et al., \"No, Marcus Aurelius didn't say this about opinions and facts,\" PolitiFact, 26 September 2019. Genuine echo: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.15, trans. Meric Casaubon (1634).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/everything-we-hear-is-an-opinion-not-a-fact-everything-we/"},{"slug":"everything-will-be-ok-in-the-end-if-its-not-ok-its-not-the","q":"Everything will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end","n":"everything will be ok in the end if its not ok its not the end","c":"disputed","real":"Fernando Sabino (crediting his father, Domingos Sabino)","credited":"Paulo Coelho","credit":"Not Paulo Coelho. The line was first attributed to Coelho only in 2015; the earliest documented version is Fernando Sabino's 1988 book, crediting his father Domingos Sabino. — verified at Quotle.info","cite":"Fernando Sabino, O tabuleiro de damas (Rio de Janeiro, 1988), earliest documented version, crediting Domingos Sabino; per Garson O'Toole, \"Everything Will Be OK in the End,\" Quote Investigator, Jan. 1, 2023.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Fernando Sabino — Brazilian novelist & journalist · credited the line to his father, Domingos. Theme: \"Everything will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/everything-will-be-ok-in-the-end-if-its-not-ok-its-not-the/"},{"slug":"everything-you-can-imagine-is-real","q":"Everything you can imagine is real","n":"everything you can imagine is real","c":"disputed","real":"Pablo Picasso","credited":"Pablo Picasso","credit":"attributed to Pablo Picasso, but undocumented: the line appears in no known speech, letter, book, or interview of his, and not in the 1935 \"Conversation avec Picasso\" often cited for it.","cite":"Widely attributed to Pablo Picasso; no primary source located. Popularly (mis)cited to Christian Zervos, \"Conversation avec Picasso,\" Cahiers d'Art X, no. 7–10 (Paris, 1935): 173–178 (trans. in Alfred H. Barr Jr., Picasso: Fifty Years of His Art, New York: MoMA, 1946), which does not contain the line.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Pablo Picasso — Spanish painter, sculptor & co-founder of Cubism. Theme: \"Everything you can imagine is real\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/everything-you-can-imagine-is-real/"},{"slug":"excellence-is-to-do-a-common-thing-in-an-uncommon-way","q":"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way","n":"excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way","c":"attributed","real":"Booker T. Washington","credited":"","credit":"Adapted from Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (1901) — his words were \"do a common thing in an uncommon manner.\"","cite":"Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901), chaps. 13 and 16.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Booker T. Washington — American educator, orator, and founder of Tuskegee Institute. Theme: \"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/excellence-is-to-do-a-common-thing-in-an-uncommon-way/"},{"slug":"existence-precedes-essence","q":"Existence precedes essence","n":"existence precedes essence","c":"verified","real":"Jean-Paul Sartre","credited":"","credit":"Jean-Paul Sartre, \"Existentialism Is a Humanism\" (1945/1946); also in \"Being and Nothingness\" (1943)","cite":"Jean-Paul Sartre, \"Existentialism Is a Humanism\" (lecture, 1945; publ. as 'L'existentialisme est un humanisme', Paris: Nagel, 1946); the formula also appears in 'Being and Nothingness' ('L'Être et le néant', Paris: Gallimard, 1943).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Jean-Paul Sartre — French philosopher, playwright & founder-figure of existentialism. Theme: \"Existence precedes essence\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/existence-precedes-essence/"},{"slug":"experience-is-a-brutal-teacher-but-you-learn-my-god-do-you","q":"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn","n":"experience is a brutal teacher but you learn my god do you learn","c":"disputed","real":"William Nicholson","credited":"C.S. Lewis","credit":"Not C.S. Lewis. Written by William Nicholson for the film Shadowlands (1993), spoken by Anthony Hopkins as Lewis; not found in Lewis's writings.","cite":"William Nicholson, Shadowlands, screenplay for the film directed by Richard Attenborough (Savoy Pictures, 1993); line spoken by Anthony Hopkins as C.S. Lewis. Not found in the published works of C.S. Lewis.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of William Nicholson — English screenwriter, playwright & novelist. Theme: \"Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/experience-is-a-brutal-teacher-but-you-learn-my-god-do-you/"},{"slug":"failure-is-not-an-option","q":"Failure is not an option","n":"failure is not an option","c":"disputed","real":"William Broyles Jr. & Al Reinert","credited":"Gene Kranz","credit":"written by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert for the film Apollo 13 (1995), spoken on screen by Ed Harris as Gene Kranz. The real Gene Kranz never said it during the mission; he later used it as the title of his 2000 memoir.","cite":"William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert, screenplay for Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard (Universal Pictures, released 30 June 1995). Phrase later adopted as the title of Gene Kranz, Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond (New York: Simon & Schuster, 12 April 2000).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of William Broyles Jr. — Screenwriter, journalist & founding editor of Texas Monthly. Theme: \"Failure is not an option\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/failure-is-not-an-option/"},{"slug":"fairy-tales-are-more-than-true-not-because-they-tell-us","q":"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten","n":"fairy tales are more than true not because they tell us that dragons exist but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten","c":"disputed","real":"Neil Gaiman","credited":"G.K. Chesterton","credit":"Neil Gaiman, epigraph to Coraline (2002) — his own paraphrase of G.K. Chesterton's essay \"The Red Angel\" (Tremendous Trifles, 1909), not a verbatim Chesterton quote.","cite":"Neil Gaiman, Coraline (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), epigraph; a paraphrase of G.K. Chesterton, \"The Red Angel,\" in Tremendous Trifles (London: Methuen, 1909).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Neil Gaiman — English author. Theme: \"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/fairy-tales-are-more-than-true-not-because-they-tell-us/"},{"slug":"faith-is-taking-the-first-step-even-when-you-dont-see-the","q":"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase","n":"faith is taking the first step even when you dont see the whole staircase","c":"disputed","real":"Martin Luther King Jr.","credited":"Martin Luther King Jr.","credit":"Misattributed to Martin Luther King Jr. This exact wording appears in none of King's documented speeches or writings; it is a later paraphrase of a metaphor recalled by Marian Wright Edelman in 1986. — Quotle.info","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Take the First Step in Faith. You Don't Have To See the Whole Staircase, Just Take the First Step,\" 18 April 2019, quoteinvestigator.com, citing the Cleveland Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), 30 March 1986. Earliest documented trace: Marian Wright Edelman's recollection of King, 1986.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Martin Luther King Jr. — Baptist minister & civil-rights leader. Theme: \"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/faith-is-taking-the-first-step-even-when-you-dont-see-the/"},{"slug":"fan-chih-asked-about-benevolence-the-master-said-it-is-to","q":"Fan Ch'ih asked about benevolence. The Master said, 'It is to love all men.'","n":"fan chih asked about benevolence the master said it is to love all men","c":"verified","real":"Confucius (Kong Qiu)","credited":"","credit":"Confucius, The Analects XII.22 (trans. James Legge, 1861)","cite":"Confucius, The Analects (Lun Yü), Book XII (\"Yen Yuan\"), ch. 22, trans. James Legge, in The Chinese Classics, vol. 1, rev. ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1893).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Confucius (Kong Qiu) — Chinese teacher, editor & philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period. Theme: \"Fan Ch'ih asked about benevolence. The Master said, 'It is to love all men.'\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/fan-chih-asked-about-benevolence-the-master-said-it-is-to/"},{"slug":"far-and-away-the-best-prize-that-life-offers-is-the-chance","q":"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing","n":"far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing","c":"verified","real":"Theodore Roosevelt","credited":"","credit":"Theodore Roosevelt, \"The Square Deal\" address, Syracuse, NY, September 7, 1903","cite":"Theodore Roosevelt, \"The Square Deal\" (address to the New York State Agricultural Association, Syracuse, NY, September 7, 1903).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Theodore Roosevelt — 26th President of the United States. Theme: \"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/far-and-away-the-best-prize-that-life-offers-is-the-chance/"},{"slug":"fear-is-the-true-enemy-the-only-enemy","q":"Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy","n":"fear is the true enemy the only enemy","c":"disputed","real":"Herbert Wright","credited":"Sun Tzu","credit":"Cmdr. William Riker in Star Trek: The Next Generation, \"The Last Outpost\" (1987); teleplay by Herbert Wright. Not Sun Tzu — the line appears in no translation of The Art of War, and no source for it predates the 1987 broadcast.","cite":"Herbert Wright (teleplay) and Richard Krzemien (story), \"The Last Outpost,\" Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 1, episode 5, directed by Richard Colla, first aired 19 October 1987 (Paramount Domestic Television). Shooting script dated 8/7/87. Earliest documented appearance of the wording; the line is absent from Sun Tzu, The Art of War, trans. Lionel Giles (1910).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Herbert Wright — Television writer and producer · \"Father of the Ferengi\". Theme: \"Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/fear-is-the-true-enemy-the-only-enemy/"},{"slug":"feet-what-do-i-need-them-for-if-i-have-wings-to-fly","q":"Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly?","n":"feet what do i need them for if i have wings to fly","c":"verified","real":"Frida Kahlo","credited":"","credit":"Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly? —Frida Kahlo, diary, 1953","cite":"Frida Kahlo, diary drawing (Spanish), 1953; reproduced in Hayden Herrera, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo (New York: Harper & Row, 1983), 415, and in The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1995).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Frida Kahlo — Mexican painter & diarist. Theme: \"Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly?\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/feet-what-do-i-need-them-for-if-i-have-wings-to-fly/"},{"slug":"few-things-help-an-individual-more-than-to-place","q":"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them","n":"few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them","c":"verified","real":"Booker T. Washington","credited":"","credit":"Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (1901), Chapter XI","cite":"Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901), Chapter XI, \"Making Their Beds Before They Could Lie On Them.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Booker T. Washington — Educator, orator & founder of the Tuskegee Institute. Theme: \"Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon them\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/few-things-help-an-individual-more-than-to-place/"},{"slug":"fight-for-the-things-that-you-care-about-but-do-it-in-a-way","q":"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you","n":"fight for the things that you care about but do it in a way that will lead others to join you","c":"verified","real":"Ruth Bader Ginsburg","credited":"","credit":"Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Radcliffe Day luncheon, Harvard University, 29 May 2015","cite":"Ruth Bader Ginsburg, remarks at the Radcliffe Day luncheon (Radcliffe Medal presentation), Harvard University, 29 May 2015, as reported by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Huffington Post (30 May 2015).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Ruth Bader Ginsburg — U.S. Supreme Court Justice & pioneering women's-rights litigator. Theme: \"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/fight-for-the-things-that-you-care-about-but-do-it-in-a-way/"},{"slug":"find-out-who-you-are-and-do-it-on-purpose","q":"Find out who you are and do it on purpose","n":"find out who you are and do it on purpose","c":"attributed","real":"Dolly Parton","credited":"","credit":"Dolly Parton — genuine personal motto, cited from her book Dream More (2012); attributed, exact first source unpinned. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Dolly Parton, Dream More: Celebrate the Dreamer in You (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2012). Line also widely circulated on Parton's official social channels; not present in the transcript of her 8 May 2009 University of Tennessee commencement address.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Dolly Parton — American singer-songwriter, author & philanthropist. Theme: \"Find out who you are and do it on purpose\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/find-out-who-you-are-and-do-it-on-purpose/"},{"slug":"find-what-you-love-and-let-it-kill-you","q":"Find what you love and let it kill you","n":"find what you love and let it kill you","c":"disputed","real":"Kinky Friedman","credited":"Charles Bukowski","credit":"Not Charles Bukowski. The adage traces to humorist Kinky Friedman, quoted in the Houston Chronicle (Sept. 18, 1986) as \"find what you like, and let it kill you.\" The \"love\" wording came from Van Dyke Parks in a 1998 interview. Origin documented by Quote Investigator.","cite":"Kinky Friedman, quoted in \"'Just another side of me' – Friedman swaps music for mystery\" (Michael Spies), Houston Chronicle, September 18, 1986 (as \"find what you like, and let it kill you\"); the \"love\" variant from Van Dyke Parks, CMJ New Music Monthly, April 1998. Origin traced by Quote Investigator, May 29, 2014.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Kinky Friedman — American singer-songwriter, humorist & mystery novelist. Theme: \"Find what you love and let it kill you\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/find-what-you-love-and-let-it-kill-you/"},{"slug":"firearms-stand-next-in-importance-to-the-constitution","q":"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence","n":"firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself they are the american peoples liberty teeth and keystone under independence","c":"disputed","real":"C. S. Wheatley","credited":"George Washington","credit":"Not George Washington. The line was written by C. S. Wheatley as his own opinion in \"Older Ideas of Firearms,\" Hunter-Trader-Trapper magazine, September 1926; it appears nowhere in Washington's writings or speeches.","cite":"C. S. Wheatley, \"Older Ideas of Firearms,\" Hunter-Trader-Trapper 53, no. 3 (September 1926): 34 (Columbus, OH). Earliest documented source of the \"liberty teeth\" passage, per Quote Investigator.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of C. S. Wheatley — outdoor-sports writer, Hunter-Trader-Trapper magazine. Theme: \"Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/firearms-stand-next-in-importance-to-the-constitution/"},{"slug":"first-say-to-yourself-what-you-would-be-and-then-do-what","q":"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do","n":"first say to yourself what you would be and then do what you have to do","c":"verified","real":"Epictetus","credited":"","credit":"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. —Epictetus, Discourses III.23.1 (trans. Elizabeth Carter, 1758)","cite":"Epictetus, The Discourses III.23.1, in All the Works of Epictetus, Which Are Now Extant, trans. Elizabeth Carter (London, 1758).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Epictetus — Greek Stoic philosopher (Nicopolis). Theme: \"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/first-say-to-yourself-what-you-would-be-and-then-do-what/"},{"slug":"first-they-ignore-you-then-they-laugh-at-you-then-they","q":"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win","n":"first they ignore you then they laugh at you then they fight you then you win","c":"disputed","real":"Nicholas Klein","credited":"Mahatma Gandhi","credit":"Not Gandhi. Closest documented source: Nicholas Klein, speech to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1918 — \"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.\" The popular \"then you win\" wording is a later anonymous paraphrase. — Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented antecedent: Nicholas Klein, address to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Baltimore, May 1918 (Documentary History of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, 1916–1918). See Quote Investigator, \"First They Ignore You, Then They Laugh at You, Then They Attack You, Then You Win,\" 13 Aug 2017.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Nicholas Klein — American labor lawyer & union organizer. Theme: \"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/first-they-ignore-you-then-they-laugh-at-you-then-they/"},{"slug":"float-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-bee","q":"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee","n":"float like a butterfly sting like a bee","c":"disputed","real":"Drew \"Bundini\" Brown","credited":"Muhammad Ali","credit":"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. —coined by Drew \"Bundini\" Brown for Muhammad Ali, c. 1964","cite":"Attributed to Drew \"Bundini\" Brown, coined c. 1963–64 and popularised by Muhammad Ali (then Cassius Clay) during the build-up to the first Sonny Liston title fight, Miami Beach, 25 February 1964. Earliest widely documented in period press coverage; authorship recorded in Brown's biographical record.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Drew \"Bundini\" Brown — Muhammad Ali's cornerman, motivator & wordsmith. Theme: \"Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/float-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-bee/"},{"slug":"fly-my-pretties-fly","q":"Fly, my pretties, fly!","n":"fly my pretties fly","c":"disputed","real":"Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson & Edgar Allan Woolf","credited":"\"Fly, my pretties, fly!\"","credit":"the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz (1939), screenplay credited to Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson & Edgar Allan Woolf. The popular \"Fly, my pretties, fly!\" is a misquote; the film never says \"pretties,\" and the line is not in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Langley, Noel, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf. The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming. Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939. Dialogue as transcribed in \"The Wizard of Oz (1939 film),\" Wikiquote. Compare L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Chicago: George M. Hill, 1900), chap. 12, Project Gutenberg ebook no. 55.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson & Edgar Allan Woolf — The Wizard of Oz (1939), MGM. Theme: \"Fly, my pretties, fly!\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/fly-my-pretties-fly/"},{"slug":"folks-are-usually-about-as-happy-as-they-make-up-their","q":"Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be","n":"folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be","c":"disputed","real":"Abraham Lincoln","credited":"Abraham Lincoln","credit":"Misattributed to Abraham Lincoln — no evidence he said it. Earliest documented use: Frank Crane's newspaper column, 1 January 1914.","cite":"Earliest documented in Frank Crane, syndicated newspaper column (Syracuse Herald), 1 January 1914; investigated in \"Quote Origin: Folks Are Usually About as Happy as They Make Up Their Minds To Be,\" Quote Investigator, 20 October 2012.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Abraham Lincoln — 16th U.S. president. Theme: \"Folks are usually about as happy as they make up their minds to be\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/folks-are-usually-about-as-happy-as-they-make-up-their/"},{"slug":"for-attractive-lips-speak-words-of-kindness-for-lovely-eyes","q":"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry","n":"for attractive lips speak words of kindness for lovely eyes seek out the good in people for a slim figure share your food with the hungry","c":"disputed","real":"Sam Levenson","credited":"Audrey Hepburn","credit":"Sam Levenson, In One Era and Out the Other (1973) — often misattributed to Audrey Hepburn.","cite":"Sam Levenson, In One Era and Out the Other (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973). Origin traced by Quote Investigator, \"For Attractive Lips, Speak Words of Kindness\" (8 July 2013).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Sam Levenson — American humorist, teacher & TV personality. Theme: \"For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/for-attractive-lips-speak-words-of-kindness-for-lovely-eyes/"},{"slug":"for-every-minute-you-are-angry-you-lose-sixty-seconds-of","q":"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness","n":"for every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous","credited":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credit":"'For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness' is anonymous newspaper wisdom, in print since 1934 with no author — not Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose name was first attached to it in 1955. Source: Quotle.info","cite":"\"Quote Origin: Every Minute You Are Angry, You Lose Sixty Seconds of Happiness,\" Quote Investigator, March 18, 2023. Earliest documented printing: The Placer Herald (Auburn, CA), February 3, 1934, unattributed.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Jacob M. Braude — compiler of speakers' reference books. Theme: \"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/for-every-minute-you-are-angry-you-lose-sixty-seconds-of/"},{"slug":"for-man-when-perfected-is-the-best-of-animals-but-when","q":"For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all","n":"for man when perfected is the best of animals but when separated from law and justice he is the worst of all","c":"verified","real":"Aristotle","credited":"","credit":"— Aristotle, Politics, Book I, ch. 2 (1253a31), trans. Benjamin Jowett (1885)","cite":"Aristotle. Politics, Book I, ch. 2 (1253a31). Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Aristotle — Greek philosopher; student of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great. Theme: \"For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/for-man-when-perfected-is-the-best-of-animals-but-when/"},{"slug":"for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn","q":"For sale: baby shoes, never worn","n":"for sale baby shoes never worn","c":"disputed","real":"Origin unknown — an anonymous legend","credited":"Ernest Hemingway","credit":"widely attributed to Ernest Hemingway, but there is no evidence he wrote it; the story motif predates his fame and was tied to his name only in 1989.","cite":"Earliest documented antecedents in classified advertisements and William R. Kane, \"Little Shoes, Never Worn,\" The Editor (1917); first attributed to Ernest Hemingway in John de Groot, Papa: A Play Based on the Legendary Lives of Ernest Hemingway (1989). See Garson O'Toole, \"Quote Origin: For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn,\" Quote Investigator, January 28, 2013.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Ernest Hemingway — American novelist & short-story writer. Theme: \"For sale: baby shoes, never worn\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/for-sale-baby-shoes-never-worn/"},{"slug":"for-the-growing-good-of-the-world-is-partly-dependent-on","q":"For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs","n":"for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs","c":"verified","real":"George Eliot","credited":"","credit":"George Eliot, Middlemarch (1871–72), Finale — the novel's closing sentence.","cite":"George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, \"Finale\" (Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1871–72), closing sentence.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of George Eliot — English novelist (pen name of Mary Ann Evans). Theme: \"For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/for-the-growing-good-of-the-world-is-partly-dependent-on/"},{"slug":"for-whom-the-bell-tolls","q":"For whom the bell tolls","n":"for whom the bell tolls","c":"verified","real":"John Donne","credited":"","credit":"John Donne, \"Meditation XVII,\" Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (1624)","cite":"John Donne, \"Meditation XVII,\" in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (London, 1624).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Donne — English metaphysical poet & cleric, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. Theme: \"For whom the bell tolls\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/for-whom-the-bell-tolls/"},{"slug":"forever-is-composed-of-nows","q":"Forever is composed of nows","n":"forever is composed of nows","c":"verified","real":"Emily Dickinson","credited":"","credit":"Forever is composed of nows. — Emily Dickinson","cite":"Dickinson, Emily. \"Forever — is composed of Nows —.\" In Further Poems of Emily Dickinson, edited by Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, 25. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1929.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Emily Dickinson — American poet. Theme: \"Forever is composed of nows\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/forever-is-composed-of-nows/"},{"slug":"forget-not-that-the-earth-delights-to-feel-your-bare-feet","q":"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair","n":"forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair","c":"verified","real":"Kahlil Gibran","credited":"","credit":"Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet (1923), \"On Clothes\"","cite":"Gibran, Kahlil. The Prophet. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. Chapter \"On Clothes.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Kahlil Gibran — Lebanese-American writer, poet & visual artist. Theme: \"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/forget-not-that-the-earth-delights-to-feel-your-bare-feet/"},{"slug":"fortune-favors-the-bold","q":"Fortune favors the bold","n":"fortune favors the bold","c":"attributed","real":"Virgil","credited":"","credit":"— Virgil, Aeneid 10.284 (\"audentis Fortuna iuvat\"); the English \"Fortune favours the bold\" is an old proverb Virgil echoed, not coined","cite":"Virgil, Aeneid 10.284 (\"audentis Fortuna iuvat\"), composed c. 29–19 BC; cf. Terence, Phormio 203, and Ennius, Annals 257. English proverb attested from Chaucer, Troilus & Criseyde (c. 1385) and Gower, Confessio Amantis (c. 1390).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Virgil — Roman poet, author of the Aeneid. Theme: \"Fortune favors the bold\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/fortune-favors-the-bold/"},{"slug":"frankly-scarlett-i-dont-give-a-damn","q":"Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn","n":"frankly scarlett i dont give a damn","c":"disputed","real":"Margaret Mitchell","credited":"\"Frankly, Scarlett…\"","credit":"Rhett Butler, Gone with the Wind (1939), screenplay credited to Sidney Howard. Adapted from Margaret Mitchell's 1936 novel, whose final chapter reads: \"My dear, I don't give a damn.\" The popular \"Frankly, Scarlett\" is a misquote — Rhett never says her name.","cite":"Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (New York: Macmillan, 1936), chap. LXIII. Screen adaptation: Gone with the Wind, directed by Victor Fleming, screenplay credited to Sidney Howard (Selznick International Pictures / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, premiered Atlanta, 15 December 1939).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Margaret Mitchell — Atlanta journalist & novelist. Theme: \"Frankly, Scarlett, I don't give a damn\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/frankly-scarlett-i-dont-give-a-damn/"},{"slug":"freedom-is-never-more-than-one-generation-away-from","q":"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction","n":"freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction","c":"verified","real":"Ronald Reagan","credited":"","credit":"— Ronald Reagan, Address to the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (1961); repeated in his California gubernatorial inaugural (1967)","cite":"Ronald Reagan, Address to the annual meeting of the Phoenix Chamber of Commerce (30 March 1961); phrase repeated in his First Inaugural Address as Governor of California (5 January 1967), California State Library.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Ronald Reagan — 40th U.S. President & Governor of California. Theme: \"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/freedom-is-never-more-than-one-generation-away-from/"},{"slug":"genius-is-one-percent-inspiration-and-ninety-nine-percent","q":"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration","n":"genius is one percent inspiration and ninety nine percent perspiration","c":"verified","real":"Thomas Edison","credited":"","credit":"Thomas Edison, as quoted in Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932 (the line in print, attributed to Edison, by 1901)","cite":"M. A. Rosanoff, \"Edison in His Laboratory,\" Harper's Monthly Magazine, September 1932; the 1 %/99 % form first appeared in print attributed to Edison in the Idaho Daily Statesman, 1901, per Quote Investigator.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Edison — American inventor & businessman. Theme: \"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/genius-is-one-percent-inspiration-and-ninety-nine-percent/"},{"slug":"get-in-good-trouble-necessary-trouble","q":"Get in good trouble, necessary trouble","n":"get in good trouble necessary trouble","c":"verified","real":"John Lewis","credited":"","credit":"— John Lewis, \"Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation,\" The New York Times, July 30, 2020","cite":"Lewis, John. “Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation.” The New York Times, July 30, 2020. Earlier form in Lewis’s tweet of June 27, 2018.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of John Lewis — U.S. congressman & civil rights leader. Theme: \"Get in good trouble, necessary trouble\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/get-in-good-trouble-necessary-trouble/"},{"slug":"gilding-the-lily","q":"Gilding the lily","n":"gilding the lily","c":"disputed","real":"William Shakespeare","credited":"A conflated misquotation","credit":"Shakespeare wrote \"to gild refined gold, to paint the lily\" (King John, Act 4, Scene 2, First Folio 1623) — not \"gild the lily,\" which is a later misquotation.","cite":"William Shakespeare, \"The Life and Death of King John,\" Act 4, Scene 2, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (London: Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623). Actual line: \"To gild refined gold, to paint the lily.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Shakespeare — English playwright and poet. Theme: \"Gilding the lily\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/gilding-the-lily/"},{"slug":"give-a-girl-the-right-shoes-and-she-can-conquer-the-world","q":"Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world","n":"give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world","c":"disputed","real":"Bette Midler","credited":"Marilyn Monroe","credit":"Not Marilyn Monroe. The idea traces to Bette Midler, who told Family Weekly in January 1980, \"I firmly believe that with the right footwear one can rule the world.\" The polished wording is a later paraphrase; the Monroe credit appeared decades after her 1962 death, with no source in her writings. — Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in Bette Midler, quoted in Family Weekly (January 1980); origin traced by Quote Investigator, \"Give a Girl the Right Shoes and She Can Conquer the World\" (31 May 2013).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Bette Midler — American singer, actress & comedian. Theme: \"Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/give-a-girl-the-right-shoes-and-she-can-conquer-the-world/"},{"slug":"give-a-man-a-fish-and-you-feed-him-for-a-day-teach-a-man-to","q":"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime","n":"give a man a fish and you feed him for a day teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime","c":"disputed","real":"Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie","credited":"Lao Tzu","credit":"Not Lao Tzu. The adage was coined by English novelist Anne Thackeray Ritchie in her 1885 novel Mrs. Dymond; the modern \"feed him for a lifetime\" wording is an anonymous 20th-century evolution. — Quotle.info","cite":"Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Mrs. Dymond (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1885); chronology per Garson O'Toole, \"Give a Man a Fish…,\" Quote Investigator, 28 Aug. 2015.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie — English novelist & essayist, eldest daughter of W. M. Thackeray. Theme: \"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/give-a-man-a-fish-and-you-feed-him-for-a-day-teach-a-man-to/"},{"slug":"give-light-and-the-darkness-will-disappear-of-itself","q":"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself","n":"give light and the darkness will disappear of itself","c":"disputed","real":"Desiderius Erasmus","credited":"Desiderius Erasmus","credit":"commonly attributed to Desiderius Erasmus, but with no documented source in his works; treat as unverified.","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest documented appearances are undated modern quotation-aggregator websites (e.g., Goodreads, BrainyQuote, AZQuotes), none citing a work by Erasmus.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Desiderius Erasmus — Dutch Renaissance humanist, priest & scholar. Theme: \"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/give-light-and-the-darkness-will-disappear-of-itself/"},{"slug":"give-me-a-place-to-stand-and-i-shall-move-the-earth","q":"Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth","n":"give me a place to stand and i shall move the earth","c":"attributed","real":"Archimedes","credited":"","credit":"attributed to Archimedes (c. 287–212 BC). No surviving work of Archimedes contains the line; its earliest known wording is in Pappus of Alexandria, Synagoge, Book VIII, c. AD 340. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Pappus of Alexandria. Synagoge (Collection), Book VIII, c. AD 340. Greek text in Friedrich Otto Hultsch, ed., Pappi Alexandrini Collectionis quae supersunt (Berlin, 1876–78), vol. 3, p. 1060. English rendering as in Sir Thomas Heath, Archimedes (1920): \"Give me a place to stand on, and I can move the earth.\" Earlier witness to the boast in different words: Plutarch, Life of Marcellus 14.7, trans. Bernadotte Perrin, Loeb Classical Library (1917).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Archimedes — Greek mathematician, physicist & engineer of Syracuse. Theme: \"Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/give-me-a-place-to-stand-and-i-shall-move-the-earth/"},{"slug":"give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death","q":"Give me liberty, or give me death!","n":"give me liberty or give me death","c":"attributed","real":"Patrick Henry","credited":"","credit":"Patrick Henry (attributed), Speech to the Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775 — the wording first printed in William Wirt's Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (1817). Via Quotle.info","cite":"William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (Philadelphia: James Webster, 1817), reconstructing Henry's Speech to the Second Virginia Convention, 23 March 1775.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Patrick Henry — Founding Father, orator & Governor of Virginia. Theme: \"Give me liberty, or give me death!\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/give-me-liberty-or-give-me-death/"},{"slug":"give-me-six-hours-to-chop-down-a-tree-and-i-will-spend-the","q":"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe","n":"give me six hours to chop down a tree and i will spend the first four sharpening the axe","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous woodsmen & loggers (a folk aphorism)","credited":"Abraham Lincoln","credit":"Misattributed to Abraham Lincoln. No evidence he said it; it began as an anonymous lumberjack saying first recorded in 1944 and was pinned to Lincoln only from 1960. —Quotle.info","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"To Cut Down a Tree in Five Minutes Spend Three Minutes Sharpening Your Axe,\" March 29, 2014. Earliest documented version: Sooner State Press (Norman, OK), December 2, 1944.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States. Theme: \"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/give-me-six-hours-to-chop-down-a-tree-and-i-will-spend-the/"},{"slug":"give-them-a-whiff-of-grapeshot","q":"Give them a whiff of grapeshot","n":"give them a whiff of grapeshot","c":"disputed","real":"Thomas Carlyle","credited":"Napoleon Bonaparte","credit":"Not Napoleon. The phrase \"a whiff of grapeshot\" was coined by historian Thomas Carlyle in The French Revolution: A History (1837).","cite":"Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History, vol. 3, book 7, ch. 7, \"The Whiff of Grapeshot\" (London: James Fraser, 1837).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Carlyle — Scottish historian & essayist. Theme: \"Give them a whiff of grapeshot\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/give-them-a-whiff-of-grapeshot/"},{"slug":"glory-is-fleeting-but-obscurity-is-forever","q":"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever","n":"glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever","c":"disputed","real":"Napoleon Bonaparte","credited":"Napoleon Bonaparte","credit":"Apocryphal; attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, but no documented source exists","cite":"No documented source. Earliest instances are late-20th- and 21st-century quotation databases and blogs attributing the line to Napoleon Bonaparte with no primary citation; removed from Wikiquote's Napoleon article as unsourced.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French, military commander. Theme: \"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/glory-is-fleeting-but-obscurity-is-forever/"},{"slug":"go-ahead-make-my-day","q":"Go ahead, make my day","n":"go ahead make my day","c":"disputed","real":"Joseph Stinson, John Milius, or Charles B. Pierce","credited":"Clint Eastwood","credit":"Go ahead, make my day. — Insp. Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood), Sudden Impact (1983). Screenplay credited to Joseph Stinson; authorship of the line is disputed between Stinson, John Milius and Charles B. Pierce.","cite":"Sudden Impact. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Screenplay by Joseph Stinson; story by Earl E. Smith and Charles B. Pierce. The Malpaso Company / Warner Bros., released 9 December 1983. Diner-scene dialogue transcribed at Wikiquote, \"Sudden Impact.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Joseph Stinson — credited screenplay, Sudden Impact (1983). Theme: \"Go ahead, make my day\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/go-ahead-make-my-day/"},{"slug":"god-has-no-religion","q":"God has no religion","n":"god has no religion","c":"disputed","real":"Henry Whitney Bellows","credited":"Mahatma Gandhi","credit":"Widely attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, but the exact phrase \"God has no religion\" appears in none of his writings — it comes from Henry Whitney Bellows's 1860 sermon \"The Kingdom of God.\"","cite":"Henry W. Bellows, \"The Kingdom of God,\" in Re-Statements of Christian Doctrine, in Twenty-Five Sermons (New York: D. Appleton, 1860), p. 149. The exact line reads \"God has no religion. He worships no one; obeys no one.\" Long misattributed to Gandhi, whose nearest genuine statement is \"all religions … proceed from the same God\" (Young India, 29 May 1924).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry Whitney Bellows — American Unitarian minister & author. Theme: \"God has no religion\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/god-has-no-religion/"},{"slug":"god-helps-those-who-help-themselves","q":"God helps those who help themselves","n":"god helps those who help themselves","c":"disputed","real":"Algernon Sidney","credited":"The Bible","credit":"not from the Bible; the exact wording first appears in Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government (1698), and was popularized by Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanack (1736).","cite":"Algernon Sidney, Discourses Concerning Government (London, 1698), ch. 2, sect. 23; popularized as \"God helps them that help themselves\" in Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (Philadelphia, 1736). The sentiment derives from an ancient Greek proverb (cf. Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner; Euripides). The phrase does not appear in the Bible.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Algernon Sidney — English politician & political theorist; author of Discourses Concerning Government. Theme: \"God helps those who help themselves\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/god-helps-those-who-help-themselves/"},{"slug":"god-is-where-you-let-him-in","q":"God is where you let Him in","n":"god is where you let him in","c":"disputed","real":"Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (the Kotzker Rebbe)","credited":"Paulo Coelho","credit":"the Kotzker Rebbe (Menachem Mendel of Kotzk, 1787–1859), as retold by Martin Buber. Not Paulo Coelho.","cite":"Martin Buber, The Way of Man According to the Teaching of Hasidism (English ed., 1950): \"God dwells wherever man lets him in.\" Childhood-version wording per Aryeh Kaplan, Innerspace: Introduction to Kabbalah, Meditation and Prophecy (1990), p. 160.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Menachem Mendel of Kotzk — Hasidic rabbi & Torah master of Kotzk, Poland. Theme: \"God is where you let Him in\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/god-is-where-you-let-him-in/"},{"slug":"golf-is-a-good-walk-spoiled","q":"Golf is a good walk spoiled","n":"golf is a good walk spoiled","c":"disputed","real":"Origin unknown (anonymous, 1890s)","credited":"Mark Twain","credit":"Anonymous (1890s) — often misattributed to Mark Twain, who was first credited only in 1948","cite":"Earliest documented (anonymous) in \"A good walk spoiled,\" The Morning Leader (London), 29 December 1897; chronology per Garson O'Toole, \"Golf is a Good Walk Spoiled,\" Quote Investigator, 28 May 2010.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Mark Twain — American author & humorist. Theme: \"Golf is a good walk spoiled\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/golf-is-a-good-walk-spoiled/"},{"slug":"good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal","q":"Good artists copy; great artists steal","n":"good artists copy great artists steal","c":"disputed","real":"T. S. Eliot","credited":"Steve Jobs","credit":"Popularly credited to Steve Jobs, who attributed it to Picasso — but there is no evidence Picasso said it. The earliest documented form is T. S. Eliot's 1920 line \"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal\" (The Sacred Wood).","cite":"T. S. Eliot, \"Philip Massinger,\" in The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (London: Methuen, 1920) — earliest documented form of the dictum; the compressed \"good artists / great artists\" wording was popularized by Steve Jobs in Triumph of the Nerds (PBS, 1996), attributed by him to Picasso.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of T. S. Eliot — Poet & critic · The Sacred Wood (1920). Theme: \"Good artists copy; great artists steal\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal/"},{"slug":"government-is-like-fire-a-dangerous-servant-and-a-fearful","q":"Government is like fire, a dangerous servant and a fearful master","n":"government is like fire a dangerous servant and a fearful master","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — a reworked proverb, falsely credited to Washington","credited":"George Washington","credit":"Attributed to George Washington, but spurious — first documented in 1902, over a century after his death, and listed by Mount Vernon among quotations he never said.","cite":"\"Government is like fire…\" Earliest documented in The Christian Science Journal (1902), attributed to \"the first President\"; a reworking of the proverbial \"a good servant but a bad master\" (water, 1562; fire, 1600s). Per Garson O'Toole, Quote Investigator, 26 May 2015.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of George Washington — First U.S. President & Continental Army commander. Theme: \"Government is like fire, a dangerous servant and a fearful master\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/government-is-like-fire-a-dangerous-servant-and-a-fearful/"},{"slug":"government-is-not-reason-it-is-not-eloquence-it-is-force","q":"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master","n":"government is not reason it is not eloquence it is force like fire a troublesome servant and a fearful master","c":"disputed","real":"George Washington","credited":"George Washington","credit":"Spurious — not George Washington. Earliest documented appearance: The Christian Science Journal (1902), 103 years after his death. Mount Vernon lists it as a spurious quotation.","cite":"\"Liberty and Government\" by W. M., The Christian Science Journal, Vol. XX, No. 8 (November 1902) — earliest documented appearance; later reprinted in Upton Sinclair, ed., The Cry for Justice (Philadelphia: John C. Winston, 1915). Attribution to Washington is unsupported; see Quote Investigator, \"Government Is Like Fire, a Dangerous Servant and a Fearful Master\" (26 May 2015).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of George Washington — First President of the United States · Commander of the Continental Army. Theme: \"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/government-is-not-reason-it-is-not-eloquence-it-is-force/"},{"slug":"gratitude-is-not-only-the-greatest-of-virtues-but-the","q":"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others","n":"gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others","c":"attributed","real":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","credited":"","credit":"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. —Marcus Tullius Cicero (paraphrased from Pro Plancio, 54 BCE)","cite":"Marcus Tullius Cicero. Pro Cn. Plancio [54 BCE], 33.80. Translated by C. D. Yonge, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero (London: George Bell & Sons, 1891). Latin: \"Haec enim est una virtus non solum maxima sed etiam mater virtutum omnium reliquarum.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Tullius Cicero — Roman statesman, orator & philosopher. Theme: \"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/gratitude-is-not-only-the-greatest-of-virtues-but-the/"},{"slug":"great-minds-discuss-ideas-average-minds-discuss-events","q":"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people","n":"great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people","c":"disputed","real":"Henry Thomas Buckle","credited":"Eleanor Roosevelt","credit":"is popularly credited to Eleanor Roosevelt, but no source supports this. Quote Investigator traces the idea to historian Henry Thomas Buckle (recorded 1901); the modern wording is a later anonymous paraphrase.","cite":"Earliest documented in Charles Stewart, \"Haud Immemor\" (1901), recalling Henry Thomas Buckle; analysis in Quote Investigator, \"Great Minds Discuss Ideas; Average Minds Discuss Events; Small Minds Discuss People,\" 18 November 2014.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry Thomas Buckle — English historian & chess master. Theme: \"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/great-minds-discuss-ideas-average-minds-discuss-events/"},{"slug":"great-works-are-performed-not-by-strength-but-by","q":"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance","n":"great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance","c":"verified","real":"Samuel Johnson","credited":"","credit":"Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), ch. 13 — spoken by Imlac. Original wording: \"Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.\"","cite":"Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (London: R. and J. Dodsley and W. Johnston, 1759), chap. 13.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Samuel Johnson — English writer, critic & lexicographer. Theme: \"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/great-works-are-performed-not-by-strength-but-by/"},{"slug":"greed-is-good","q":"Greed is good","n":"greed is good","c":"disputed","real":"Stanley Weiser & Oliver Stone","credited":"Gordon Gekko / Michael Douglas","credit":"Gordon Gekko in Wall Street (1987), written by Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone","cite":"Wall Street, directed by Oliver Stone, written by Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone (20th Century Fox, released 11 December 1987). Dialogue as transcribed in Wikiquote, \"Wall Street (1987 film).\" Pre-film uses of the bare phrase documented in Barry Popik, \"Greed is good,\" BarryPopik.com, citing Mother Jones, October 1984, p. 30, and Michael Korda, Success! (New York: Random House, 1977), p. 66.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Stanley Weiser & Oliver Stone — Wall Street (1987), 20th Century Fox. Theme: \"Greed is good\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/greed-is-good/"},{"slug":"happiness-is-an-activity-of-the-soul-in-accordance-with","q":"Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue","n":"happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue","c":"verified","real":"Aristotle","credited":"","credit":"Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I (1098a), trans. W. D. Ross, 1925","cite":"Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, 1098a16 and 1102a5. Translated by W. D. Ross. In The Works of Aristotle Translated into English, Vol. IX. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Aristotle — Greek philosopher · founder of the Lyceum. Theme: \"Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/happiness-is-an-activity-of-the-soul-in-accordance-with/"},{"slug":"happiness-is-like-a-butterfly-the-more-you-chase-it-the","q":"Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder","n":"happiness is like a butterfly the more you chase it the more it will elude you but if you turn your attention to other things it will come and sit softly on your shoulder","c":"disputed","real":"J. Richard Lessor (per the Walden Woods Project) — not Thoreau","credited":"Henry David Thoreau","credit":"Misattributed to Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau did not write this. The butterfly-happiness image comes from an anonymous 1848 newspaper item; the modern wording spread on 1970s posters and is credited to J. Richard Lessor. Source: Quote Investigator; the Walden Woods Project.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Happiness Is A Butterfly, Which When Pursued, Seems Always Just Beyond Your Grasp,\" April 17, 2014, citing the earliest instance in The Daily Crescent (New Orleans), June 1848; cf. the Walden Woods Project, \"The Henry D. Thoreau Mis-Quotation Page.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of J. Richard Lessor — American social worker, author & motivational speaker. Theme: \"Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/happiness-is-like-a-butterfly-the-more-you-chase-it-the/"},{"slug":"happiness-is-when-what-you-think-what-you-say-and-what-you","q":"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony","n":"happiness is when what you think what you say and what you do are in harmony","c":"attributed","real":"Mahatma Gandhi","credited":"","credit":"attributed to Mahatma Gandhi (no primary source located; echoes his widely attributed teaching to \"aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed\"). Via Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented as an attributed, unsourced Gandhi quote in online quotation collections; no primary Gandhi text (Collected Works, Young India, Harijan, letters) has been located containing this exact wording. The closest and far more widely attributed parallel is Mahatma Gandhi, \"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Mahatma Gandhi — leader of India's independence movement. Theme: \"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/happiness-is-when-what-you-think-what-you-say-and-what-you/"},{"slug":"happiness-lies-in-the-joy-of-achievement-and-the-thrill-of","q":"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort","n":"happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort","c":"verified","real":"Franklin D. Roosevelt","credited":"","credit":"Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933. His actual words: \"Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.\"","cite":"Franklin D. Roosevelt, \"First Inaugural Address,\" delivered 4 March 1933, Washington, D.C. Text via the Avalon Project, Yale Law School.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Franklin D. Roosevelt — 32nd President of the United States. Theme: \"Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/happiness-lies-in-the-joy-of-achievement-and-the-thrill-of/"},{"slug":"happy-girls-are-the-prettiest","q":"Happy girls are the prettiest","n":"happy girls are the prettiest","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (a MySpace-era \"I believe in pink\" passage)","credited":"Audrey Hepburn","credit":"Anonymous — the “I believe in pink” internet passage, c. 2007–2008; misattributed to Audrey Hepburn","cite":"Earliest documented in Richard Kennedy, The Disgrace of MySpace (2008), as an anonymous MySpace post; see \"Audrey Hepburn (Misattributed),\" Wikiquote.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Audrey Hepburn — actress & humanitarian · a top magnet for feel-good fake quotes. Theme: \"Happy girls are the prettiest\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/happy-girls-are-the-prettiest/"},{"slug":"hardships-often-prepare-ordinary-people-for-an","q":"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny","n":"hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny","c":"disputed","real":"Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely and Michael Petroni","credited":"C.S. Lewis","credit":"popularly credited to C.S. Lewis, but not his. The C.S. Lewis Foundation lists it as misattributed and traces it to the 2010 film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (screenplay by Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely and Michael Petroni), not to Lewis's 1952 novel. On screen Reepicheep tells the dragon-shaped Eustace: \"extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny.\" Via Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in the screenplay of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, dir. Michael Apted, written by Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, and Michael Petroni (Fox 2000 Pictures / Walden Media, 2010), based on C. S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (London: Geoffrey Bles, 1952). Identified as misattributed to Lewis by the C.S. Lewis Foundation, \"Quotes Misattributed to C.S. Lewis,\" and by William O'Flaherty, The Misquotable C.S. Lewis: What He Didn't Say, What He Actually Said, and Why It Matters (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely and Michael Petroni — The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010). Theme: \"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/hardships-often-prepare-ordinary-people-for-an/"},{"slug":"hate-destroys-the-hater","q":"Hate destroys the hater","n":"hate destroys the hater","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (a folk proverb, attested by 1897)","credited":"Martin Luther King Jr.","credit":"is an anonymous proverb attested since 1897, not an MLK original; King preached a fuller version — “hate destroys the hater as well as the hated” — in his 1957 sermon “Loving Your Enemies.”","cite":"Earliest documented in Henry Norman, Real (1897) and A. P. Buchman, The Theosophical Forum (July 1897); King's fuller wording in Martin Luther King Jr., \"Loving Your Enemies,\" sermon delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Ala., 17 November 1957. Provenance per Quote Investigator (2020).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Martin Luther King Jr. — Baptist minister & civil-rights leader. Theme: \"Hate destroys the hater\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/hate-destroys-the-hater/"},{"slug":"hate-it-has-caused-a-lot-of-problems-in-the-world-but-has","q":"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet","n":"hate it has caused a lot of problems in the world but has not solved one yet","c":"disputed","real":"Touched by an Angel (the character Tess)","credited":"Maya Angelou","credit":"Misattributed to Maya Angelou. The earliest documented form is a line spoken by the angel Tess in the 1995 TV drama \"Touched by an Angel\" (episode \"The Big Bang,\" aired Nov 25, 1995): \"hate has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it's never solved one yet.\" No source exists in Angelou's own writing. — Quotle.info","cite":"\"The Big Bang,\" Touched by an Angel, season 2, episode 9 (CBS, first aired 25 November 1995). Earliest documented form of the line, spoken by the character Tess (Della Reese); the \"Maya Angelou\" attribution is unsourced.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Maya Angelou — American poet, memoirist & civil-rights activist. Theme: \"Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/hate-it-has-caused-a-lot-of-problems-in-the-world-but-has/"},{"slug":"have-no-fear-of-perfection-youll-never-reach-it","q":"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it","n":"have no fear of perfection youll never reach it","c":"attributed","real":"Salvador Dalí","credited":"","credit":"Salvador Dalí, Diary of a Genius (1964)","cite":"Salvador Dalí, Diary of a Genius, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Doubleday, 1965); the line is documented in the Creation Books ed. (1998), p. 44 as \"Don't be afraid of perfection. You will never attain it!\" Originally Journal d'un génie (1964).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Salvador Dalí — Spanish surrealist painter & writer. Theme: \"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/have-no-fear-of-perfection-youll-never-reach-it/"},{"slug":"he-has-half-the-deed-done-who-has-made-a-beginning","q":"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning","n":"he has half the deed done who has made a beginning","c":"verified","real":"Horace","credited":"","credit":"He has half the deed done, who has made a beginning. —Horace, Epistles 1.2.40 (trans. Christopher Smart, 1756)","cite":"Horace. \"Epistles,\" Book 1, Epistle 2 (to Lollius), line 40 (c. 20 BC). In 'The Works of Horace', translated by Christopher Smart (1756), revised by Theodore Alois Buckley (1853).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Horace — Roman lyric poet, satirist & critic of the Augustan age. Theme: \"He has half the deed done who has made a beginning\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/he-has-half-the-deed-done-who-has-made-a-beginning/"},{"slug":"he-is-a-wise-man-who-does-not-grieve-for-the-things-which","q":"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has","n":"he is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not but rejoices for those which he has","c":"verified","real":"Epictetus","credited":"","credit":"Epictetus, Fragments CXXIX (trans. George Long, 1877)","cite":"Epictetus. The Discourses of Epictetus; with the Encheiridion and Fragments. Translated by George Long. London: George Bell & Sons, 1877, Fragment CXXIX.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Epictetus — Greek Stoic philosopher, born a slave at Hierapolis. Theme: \"He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/he-is-a-wise-man-who-does-not-grieve-for-the-things-which/"},{"slug":"he-knows-nothing-and-thinks-that-he-knows-i-neither-know","q":"He knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know","n":"he knows nothing and thinks that he knows i neither know nor think that i know","c":"verified","real":"Socrates (as recorded by Plato)","credited":"","credit":"Socrates, in Plato's Apology (21d), trans. Benjamin Jowett, 1871","cite":"Plato. Apology 21d. In The Dialogues of Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1871.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Socrates — Athenian philosopher, as portrayed by Plato. Theme: \"He knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/he-knows-nothing-and-thinks-that-he-knows-i-neither-know/"},{"slug":"he-who-has-injured-thee-was-either-stronger-or-weaker-than","q":"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself","n":"he who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee if weaker spare him if stronger spare thyself","c":"disputed","real":"Seneca the Younger","credited":"William Shakespeare","credit":"Seneca the Younger, On Anger (De Ira), Book III, ch. 5 — not William Shakespeare.","cite":"Seneca, \"On Anger\" (De Ira), Book III, ch. 5, in Minor Dialogues Together with the Dialogue On Clemency, trans. Aubrey Stewart (London: George Bell and Sons, 1900). Popular \"thee/thyself\" wording is an older, unattributed English rendering.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Seneca the Younger — Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman & dramatist. Theme: \"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/he-who-has-injured-thee-was-either-stronger-or-weaker-than/"},{"slug":"he-who-is-not-satisfied-with-a-little-is-satisfied-with","q":"He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing","n":"he who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing","c":"attributed","real":"Epicurus","credited":"","credit":"He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing. — attributed to Epicurus (a modern paraphrase of Vatican Saying 68)","cite":"Epicurus. Vatican Saying 68, in The Vatican Sayings. Greek: Ou έ ἱ ὸ ᾓ ὀ ί ὸ ἱ ό ; standard translation \"Nothing is enough to one for whom enough is little.\" The popular English wording is an unattributed modern paraphrase.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Epicurus — Greek philosopher, founder of Epicureanism. Theme: \"He who is not satisfied with a little is satisfied with nothing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/he-who-is-not-satisfied-with-a-little-is-satisfied-with/"},{"slug":"he-who-knows-not-and-knows-not-he-knows-not-is-a-fool-shun","q":"He who knows not, and knows not he knows not, is a fool; shun him. He who knows not, and knows he knows not, is simple; teach him. He who knows, and knows not he knows, is asleep; awaken him. He who knows, and knows he knows, is wise; follow him","n":"he who knows not and knows not he knows not is a fool shun him he who knows not and knows he knows not is simple teach him he who knows and knows not he knows is asleep awaken him he who knows and knows he knows is wise follow him","c":"disputed","real":"An anonymous proverb (documented as an \"Arabic\" / Oriental saying)","credited":"Bruce Lee","credit":"Anonymous proverb (in print as an “Arabic proverb” by 1885) — not Bruce Lee, per Quote Investigator.","cite":"\"A Knowsy Proverb\" [printed as an Arabic proverb], The Globe (Toronto), 15 December 1885, p. 6, col. 3; earliest full four-part version traced in Garson O'Toole, \"He Who Knows, and Knows Not He Knows, Is Asleep; Awaken Him,\" Quote Investigator, 24 September 2021.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of An anonymous proverb — variously called an Arabic, Persian & Chinese proverb. Theme: \"He who knows not, and knows not he knows not, is a fool; shun him. He who knows not, and knows he knows not, is simple; teach him. He who knows, and knows not he knows, is asleep; awaken him. He who knows, and knows he knows, is wise; follow him\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/he-who-knows-not-and-knows-not-he-knows-not-is-a-fool-shun/"},{"slug":"he-who-knows-others-is-wise-he-who-knows-himself-is","q":"He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened","n":"he who knows others is wise he who knows himself is enlightened","c":"verified","real":"Lao Tzu","credited":"","credit":"Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, ch. 33 (trans. Ch'u Ta-Kao, 1937; identical in Wing-Tsit Chan, 1963)","cite":"Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching, ch. 33. Translated by Ch'u Ta-Kao. London: The Buddhist Society, 1937. Identical wording in The Way of Lao Tzu (Tao-te ching), translated by Wing-Tsit Chan (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1963).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Lao Tzu — Chinese sage · reputed author of the Tao Te Ching. Theme: \"He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/he-who-knows-others-is-wise-he-who-knows-himself-is/"},{"slug":"he-who-learns-but-does-not-think-is-lost","q":"He who learns but does not think, is lost","n":"he who learns but does not think is lost","c":"verified","real":"Confucius","credited":"","credit":"He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. — Confucius, The Analects 2.15 (trans. Arthur Waley, 1938)","cite":"Confucius, The Analects, trans. Arthur Waley (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1938), Book 2, verse 15. Original text: 學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Confucius — Chinese philosopher and teacher. Theme: \"He who learns but does not think, is lost\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/he-who-learns-but-does-not-think-is-lost/"},{"slug":"he-who-opens-a-school-door-closes-a-prison","q":"He who opens a school door, closes a prison","n":"he who opens a school door closes a prison","c":"disputed","real":"Louis-Charles Jourdan","credited":"Victor Hugo","credit":"Often credited to Victor Hugo, but the best-documented trail points to journalist Louis-Charles Jourdan, circa 1870 - Quotle.info","cite":"Pierre Larousse, Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, vol. VII (Paris, 1870), s.v. \"École\", and vol. XIII (1875), s.v. \"Prison,\" attributing the phrase to journalist Louis-Charles Jourdan of Le Siècle.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Louis-Charles Jourdan — French journalist for Le Siècle. Theme: \"He who opens a school door, closes a prison\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/he-who-opens-a-school-door-closes-a-prison/"},{"slug":"he-who-overcomes-others-is-strong-he-who-overcomes-himself","q":"He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty","n":"he who overcomes others is strong he who overcomes himself is mighty","c":"verified","real":"Lao Tzu (Laozi)","credited":"","credit":"Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, Chapter 33 (trans. James Legge, 1891)","cite":"Lao Tzu. The Tâo Teh King, Chapter 33. Translated by James Legge. In The Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 39: The Texts of Tâoism, Part I. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Lao Tzu (Laozi) — Chinese philosopher · reputed author of the Tao Te Ching. Theme: \"He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/he-who-overcomes-others-is-strong-he-who-overcomes-himself/"},{"slug":"heard-melodies-are-sweet-but-those-unheard-are-sweeter","q":"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter","n":"heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter","c":"verified","real":"John Keats","credited":"","credit":"John Keats, \"Ode on a Grecian Urn\" (1820)","cite":"John Keats, \"Ode on a Grecian Urn,\" lines 11–12, in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (London: Taylor & Hessey, 1820); first published in Annals of the Fine Arts, January 1820.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Keats — English Romantic poet. Theme: \"Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/heard-melodies-are-sweet-but-those-unheard-are-sweeter/"},{"slug":"hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-woman-scorned","q":"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned","n":"hell hath no fury like a woman scorned","c":"disputed","real":"William Congreve","credited":"William Shakespeare","credit":"Paraphrased from William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (1697), Act III — original: \"Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.\"","cite":"William Congreve, The Mourning Bride: A Tragedy (London: Jacob Tonson, 1697), act 3. Original: \"Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Congreve — English Restoration dramatist & poet. Theme: \"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-woman-scorned/"},{"slug":"hell-is-other-people","q":"Hell is other people","n":"hell is other people","c":"verified","real":"Jean-Paul Sartre","credited":"","credit":"Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (Huis clos, 1944) — \"Hell is—other people!\" (Garcin)","cite":"Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (Huis clos, 1944), trans. Stuart Gilbert (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946) — Garcin: \"Hell is—other people!\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Jean-Paul Sartre — French existentialist philosopher, playwright & novelist. Theme: \"Hell is other people\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/hell-is-other-people/"},{"slug":"hello-clarice","q":"Hello, Clarice","n":"hello clarice","c":"disputed","real":"Ted Tally","credited":"\"Hello, Clarice\"","credit":"Dr. Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs (1991), screenplay by Ted Tally, from the novel by Thomas Harris. Commonly misquoted as \"Hello, Clarice,\" a line Lecter never says in that film — he says \"Well, hello Clarice\" in the 2001 sequel, Hannibal.","cite":"Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs, screenplay, based on the novel by Thomas Harris (1988); directed by Jonathan Demme (Orion Pictures, released 14 February 1991). Line as transcribed at Wikiquote, \"The Silence of the Lambs (film).\" Misquotation documented at Wikiquote, \"Misquotations.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Ted Tally — American playwright and screenwriter. Theme: \"Hello, Clarice\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/hello-clarice/"},{"slug":"help-is-the-sunny-side-of-control","q":"Help is the sunny side of control","n":"help is the sunny side of control","c":"disputed","real":"Anne Lamott (popularizer)","credited":"Brené Brown","credit":"is an anonymous saying popularized by Anne Lamott (2017 TED Talk; Almost Everything, 2018). It is often misattributed to Brené Brown, who quoted Lamott in Atlas of the Heart (2021). Earliest documented on a sign in Robin Norwood's Women Who Love Too Much (1985). — Quotle.info","cite":"Robin Norwood, Women Who Love Too Much (New York: Tarcher/St. Martin's, 1985), quoting an anonymous sign; earliest attestation and full chronology per Garson O'Toole, \"Help Is the Sunny Side of Control,\" Quote Investigator, June 22, 2026.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Anne Lamott — American novelist & essayist. Theme: \"Help is the sunny side of control\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/help-is-the-sunny-side-of-control/"},{"slug":"history-doesnt-repeat-itself-but-it-often-rhymes","q":"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes","n":"history doesnt repeat itself but it often rhymes","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — misattributed to Mark Twain","credited":"Mark Twain","credit":"Misattributed to Mark Twain. No evidence he said or wrote it; earliest strong match is Theodor Reik (1965). Twain's genuine related line is in The Gilded Age (1873).","cite":"Earliest documented in Theodor Reik, The Unreachables (1965); attributed to Mark Twain from 1970 (John Robert Colombo, Neo Poems). Twain's related line: Mark Twain & Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age: A Tale of To-Day (Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1873).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Mark Twain — American humorist & novelist (Samuel L. Clemens). Theme: \"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/history-doesnt-repeat-itself-but-it-often-rhymes/"},{"slug":"hold-fast-to-dreams-for-if-dreams-die-life-is-a-broken","q":"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly","n":"hold fast to dreams for if dreams die life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly","c":"verified","real":"Langston Hughes","credited":"","credit":"Langston Hughes, \"Dreams\" (The World Tomorrow, May 1923)","cite":"Langston Hughes, \"Dreams,\" The World Tomorrow (May 1923); collected in The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Langston Hughes — American poet, novelist & leading voice of the Harlem Renaissance. Theme: \"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/hold-fast-to-dreams-for-if-dreams-die-life-is-a-broken/"},{"slug":"holding-on-to-anger-is-like-grasping-a-hot-coal-with-the","q":"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned","n":"holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned","c":"disputed","real":"Buddhaghosa","credited":"Gautama Buddha","credit":"Buddhaghosa, Visuddhimagga (5th century CE) — the metaphor's true source; not the Buddha, and the popular wording is a modern paraphrase","cite":"Buddhaghosa, The Path of Purity (Visuddhimagga), trans. Pe Maung Tin (London: Pali Text Society, 1931), Part II, ch. IX; paraphrase popularized in Joan Borysenko, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1987).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Buddhaghosa — Theravada Buddhist scholar-monk · author of the Visuddhimagga. Theme: \"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/holding-on-to-anger-is-like-grasping-a-hot-coal-with-the/"},{"slug":"hope-is-itself-a-species-of-happiness-and-perhaps-the-chief","q":"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords","n":"hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords","c":"verified","real":"Samuel Johnson","credited":"","credit":"Samuel Johnson, letter of 8 June 1762 (in Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791)","cite":"James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791), recording Johnson's letter of 8 June 1762.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Samuel Johnson — English writer, lexicographer & moralist. Theme: \"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/hope-is-itself-a-species-of-happiness-and-perhaps-the-chief/"},{"slug":"hope-is-the-dream-of-a-waking-man","q":"Hope is the dream of a waking man","n":"hope is the dream of a waking man","c":"verified","real":"Aristotle","credited":"","credit":"Aristotle, quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers V.18 (trans. C. D. Yonge, 1853)","cite":"Diogenes Laërtius. The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book V.18. Translated by C. D. Yonge. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1853, p. 187.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Aristotle — Greek philosopher & polymath; founder of the Lyceum. Theme: \"Hope is the dream of a waking man\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/hope-is-the-dream-of-a-waking-man/"},{"slug":"hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-that-perches-in-the-soul","q":"Hope is the thing with feathers - that perches in the soul","n":"hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul","c":"verified","real":"Emily Dickinson","credited":"","credit":"is the thing with feathers — That perches in the soul — Emily Dickinson, poem J254/Fr314 (c.1861), first published in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series (1891)","cite":"Emily Dickinson, \"'Hope' is the thing with feathers\" (J254 / Fr314, c. 1861), in Poems by Emily Dickinson, Second Series, ed. T. W. Higginson and M. L. Todd (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1891).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Emily Dickinson — American poet, Amherst, Massachusetts. Theme: \"Hope is the thing with feathers - that perches in the soul\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-that-perches-in-the-soul/"},{"slug":"hope-springs-eternal-in-the-human-breast","q":"Hope springs eternal in the human breast","n":"hope springs eternal in the human breast","c":"verified","real":"Alexander Pope","credited":"","credit":"Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Epistle I, line 95 (1733)","cite":"Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man, Epistle I, line 95 (London: Printed for J. Wilford, 1733–34).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Alexander Pope — English poet, satirist & translator. Theme: \"Hope springs eternal in the human breast\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/hope-springs-eternal-in-the-human-breast/"},{"slug":"houston-we-have-a-problem","q":"Houston, we have a problem","n":"houston we have a problem","c":"disputed","real":"Jim Lovell","credited":"Jim Lovell","credit":"Jack Swigert, Apollo 13, 13 April 1970, repeated moments later by commander Jim Lovell as \"Ah, Houston, we've had a problem.\" The familiar \"Houston, we have a problem\" is dialogue from the 1995 film Apollo 13, not a real transmission.","cite":"Apollo 13 Technical Air-to-Ground Voice Transcription (NASA, April 1, 1970), 055:55:19–055:55:35 GET; NASA Technical Reports Server, document 20160014370. The popular wording originates in Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard, screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert (Imagine Entertainment / Universal Pictures, 1995).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Jim Lovell — NASA astronaut; commander of Apollo 13. Theme: \"Houston, we have a problem\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/houston-we-have-a-problem/"},{"slug":"how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-count-the-ways","q":"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways","n":"how do i love thee let me count the ways","c":"verified","real":"Elizabeth Barrett Browning","credited":"","credit":"— Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43, \"Sonnets from the Portuguese\" (1850)","cite":"Elizabeth Barrett Browning, \"Sonnet 43,\" in Sonnets from the Portuguese (first published 1850).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Elizabeth Barrett Browning — English Victorian poet. Theme: \"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/how-do-i-love-thee-let-me-count-the-ways/"},{"slug":"how-many-people-here-tonight-are-telekinetic-raise-my-hand","q":"How many people here tonight are telekinetic? Raise my hand","n":"how many people here tonight are telekinetic raise my hand","c":"disputed","real":"Emo Philips","credited":"Kurt Vonnegut","credit":"Not Kurt Vonnegut. The joke \"How many people here tonight are telekinetic? Raise my hand\" is traced by Quote Investigator to comedian Emo Philips, whose act contained it by November 1985. The Vonnegut credit first appeared only in a 2007 obituary sidebar and has no substantive support.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Gregory F. Sullivan), \"Quote Origin: How Many People Here Tonight Are Telekinetic? Raise My Hand,\" Quote Investigator, November 16, 2018, citing the earliest match in the Birmingham Post-Herald, November 1985.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Emo Philips — American stand-up comedian & actor. Theme: \"How many people here tonight are telekinetic? Raise my hand\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/how-many-people-here-tonight-are-telekinetic-raise-my-hand/"},{"slug":"how-old-would-you-be-if-you-didnt-know-how-old-you-were","q":"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?","n":"how old would you be if you didnt know how old you were","c":"disputed","real":"Rev. Clarence H. Wilson","credited":"Wayne Dyer","credit":"Not Wayne Dyer — an old folk saying documented in a 1927 sermon (Rev. Clarence H. Wilson); Dyer merely reprinted it without credit in 1980. Best known via Satchel Paige. Source: Quote Investigator.","cite":"\"How Old Would You Be If You Didn't Know How Old You Are?\" Quote Investigator, 24 August 2021. Earliest documented instance: a 1927 sermon by Rev. Clarence H. Wilson, reported in the 'Brooklyn Daily Eagle.'","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Rev. Clarence H. Wilson — Pastor, Flatbush Congregational Church, Brooklyn. Theme: \"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/how-old-would-you-be-if-you-didnt-know-how-old-you-were/"},{"slug":"how-wonderful-it-is-that-nobody-need-wait-a-single-moment","q":"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world","n":"how wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world","c":"verified","real":"Anne Frank","credited":"","credit":"Anne Frank, \"Give!\" (26 March 1944), in Tales from the Secret Annex","cite":"Anne Frank, \"Give!\" (26 March 1944), in Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex, trans. Ralph Manheim and Michel Mok (New York: Washington Square Press / Pocket Books, 1983).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Anne Frank — German-born Dutch diarist & Holocaust victim. Theme: \"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/how-wonderful-it-is-that-nobody-need-wait-a-single-moment/"},{"slug":"humility-is-not-thinking-less-of-yourself-its-thinking-of","q":"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less","n":"humility is not thinking less of yourself its thinking of yourself less","c":"disputed","real":"C.S. Lewis","credited":"C.S. Lewis","credit":"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less. — a modern paraphrase of C.S. Lewis's teaching, worded by Rick Howard & Jamie Lash (1998) and popularized by Rick Warren's The Purpose Driven Life (2002). Lewis himself never wrote this sentence.","cite":"Rick Howard and Jamie Lash, This Was Your Life! Preparing to Meet God Face to Face (1998), earliest near-exact wording; popularized in Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002). Widely and wrongly attributed to C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity (1952), where it does not appear.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of C.S. Lewis — Oxford & Cambridge scholar, author of Mere Christianity. Theme: \"Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/humility-is-not-thinking-less-of-yourself-its-thinking-of/"},{"slug":"i-am-a-slow-walker-but-i-never-walk-back","q":"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back","n":"i am a slow walker but i never walk back","c":"attributed","real":"Abraham Lincoln","credited":"","credit":"Abraham Lincoln (attributed; earliest documented in an 1864 newspaper reporting his reply on the Emancipation Proclamation). Via Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in \"Gleanings from the Mails,\" Daily Commercial Register (Sandusky, Ohio), 14 January 1864, p. 2; repeated verbatim in the Fremont (Ohio) Journal, 22 January 1864.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Abraham Lincoln — 16th U.S. president. Theme: \"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-am-a-slow-walker-but-i-never-walk-back/"},{"slug":"i-am-always-doing-that-which-i-can-not-do-in-order-that-i","q":"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it","n":"i am always doing that which i can not do in order that i may learn how to do it","c":"disputed","real":"Vincent van Gogh","credited":"Pablo Picasso","credit":"Vincent van Gogh, letter to Anthon van Rappard, c. 18 August 1885 (misattributed to Pablo Picasso)","cite":"Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard, Nuenen, on or about 18 August 1885, letter 528, in Vincent van Gogh — The Letters (Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum & Huygens ING), vangoghletters.org. Misattribution to Picasso surveyed in Garson O'Toole, Quote Investigator, 26 March 2017.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Vincent van Gogh — Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. Theme: \"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-am-always-doing-that-which-i-can-not-do-in-order-that-i/"},{"slug":"i-am-always-doing-what-i-cant-do-yet-in-order-to-learn-how","q":"I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it","n":"i am always doing what i cant do yet in order to learn how to do it","c":"verified","real":"Vincent van Gogh","credited":"Vincent van Gogh","credit":"Vincent van Gogh, letter to Anthon van Rappard, Nuenen, on or about 18 August 1885 (letter 528 / R57). Translated from the Dutch.","cite":"Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard, Nuenen, on or about Tuesday, 18 August 1885, letter 528 (529, R57), in Vincent van Gogh: The Letters (Amsterdam: Van Gogh Museum; The Hague: Huygens ING, 2009), vangoghletters.org. The familiar English wording (\"I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it\") appears in the R57 text published by The Vincent van Gogh Gallery, and is documented in print by 1979.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Vincent van Gogh — Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. Theme: \"I am always doing what I can't do yet in order to learn how to do it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-am-always-doing-what-i-cant-do-yet-in-order-to-learn-how/"},{"slug":"i-am-an-old-man-and-have-known-a-great-many-troubles-but","q":"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened","n":"i am an old man and have known a great many troubles but most of them never happened","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous saying (later pinned on Mark Twain)","credited":"Seneca","credit":"Anonymous 19th-century proverb (attested by 1881) — not Seneca, and not Mark Twain or Winston Churchill, to whom it is also wrongly credited.","cite":"No authored primary source. Earliest strong attestation 1881, when President-elect James A. Garfield quoted it as a proverbial 'old man' saying (Cleveland Leader). Per Quote Investigator (Garson O'Toole), \"I Am an Old Man and Have Known a Great Many Troubles, But Most of Them Never Happened,\" 4 October 2013.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Seneca the Younger — Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman & dramatist. Theme: \"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-am-an-old-man-and-have-known-a-great-many-troubles-but/"},{"slug":"i-am-much-less-interested-in-what-is-called-gods-word-than","q":"I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds","n":"i am much less interested in what is called gods word than in gods deeds","c":"disputed","real":"John Burroughs","credited":"Thomas Edison","credit":"John Burroughs, \"Religious Contrasts: Letters of a Pantheist and a Churchman,\" The Atlantic Monthly (October 1921), p. 520 — frequently misattributed to Thomas Edison.","cite":"John Burroughs, “Religious Contrasts: Letters of a Pantheist and a Churchman,” The Atlantic Monthly 128, no. 4 (October 1921): 520.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Burroughs — American naturalist & nature essayist. Theme: \"I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-am-much-less-interested-in-what-is-called-gods-word-than/"},{"slug":"i-am-no-bird-and-no-net-ensnares-me","q":"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me","n":"i am no bird and no net ensnares me","c":"verified","real":"Charlotte Brontë","credited":"","credit":"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you. — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)","cite":"Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. XXIII.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Charlotte Brontë — English novelist & poet. Theme: \"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-am-no-bird-and-no-net-ensnares-me/"},{"slug":"i-am-not-afraid-of-storms-for-i-am-learning-how-to-sail-my","q":"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship","n":"i am not afraid of storms for i am learning how to sail my ship","c":"verified","real":"Louisa May Alcott","credited":"","credit":"Louisa May Alcott, Little Women (1869)","cite":"Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women; or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy, Part Second (\"Good Wives\"). Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869. Ch. 44, \"My Lord and Lady.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Louisa May Alcott — American novelist, author of Little Women. Theme: \"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-am-not-afraid-of-storms-for-i-am-learning-how-to-sail-my/"},{"slug":"i-am-the-greatest-i-said-that-even-before-i-knew-i-was","q":"I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was","n":"i am the greatest i said that even before i knew i was","c":"attributed","real":"Muhammad Ali","credited":"","credit":"Attributed to Muhammad Ali (1942–2016). His \"I am the greatest\" boast is documented from 1963–64, but this exact reflective wording has no traced primary source.","cite":"Attributed to Muhammad Ali. Earliest documented form of the \"I am the greatest\" boast: I Am the Greatest! (Columbia Records, 1963) and post–Liston remarks, Feb. 1964. This exact reflective wording is undocumented in a primary source.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Muhammad Ali — American heavyweight boxing champion & activist. Theme: \"I am the greatest. I said that even before I knew I was\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-am-the-greatest-i-said-that-even-before-i-knew-i-was/"},{"slug":"i-am-the-master-of-my-fate-i-am-the-captain-of-my-soul","q":"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul","n":"i am the master of my fate i am the captain of my soul","c":"verified","real":"William Ernest Henley","credited":"","credit":"— William Ernest Henley, \"Invictus\" (written 1875, first published 1888)","cite":"William Ernest Henley, \"Invictus,\" in A Book of Verses (London: David Nutt, 1888); written 1875. Text as reprinted in Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed., The Oxford Book of English Verse (Oxford: Clarendon Press).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Ernest Henley — English poet, critic & editor. Theme: \"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-am-the-master-of-my-fate-i-am-the-captain-of-my-soul/"},{"slug":"i-am-too-intelligent-too-demanding-and-too-resourceful-for","q":"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely","n":"i am too intelligent too demanding and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely","c":"verified","real":"Simone de Beauvoir","credited":"","credit":"Simone de Beauvoir, Cahiers de jeunesse, 1926–1930 (Gallimard, 2008); displayed English is an uncredited popular translation of the French","cite":"Simone de Beauvoir, Cahiers de jeunesse, 1926–1930, ed. Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir (Paris: Gallimard, 2008). The displayed English is an uncredited popular translation of the French; the early notebooks appear in English as Diary of a Philosophy Student, Vols. 1–2 (1926–29), trans. Barbara Klaw (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006, 2019), which is not verified to contain this entry.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Simone de Beauvoir — French philosopher, novelist & feminist theorist. Theme: \"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-am-too-intelligent-too-demanding-and-too-resourceful-for/"},{"slug":"i-attribute-my-success-to-this-i-never-gave-or-took-any","q":"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse","n":"i attribute my success to this i never gave or took any excuse","c":"verified","real":"Florence Nightingale","credited":"","credit":"Florence Nightingale, 1861 letter (in Cook's The Life of Florence Nightingale, 1913). The popular \"any excuse\" is a later variant.","cite":"Florence Nightingale to Miss H. Bonham Carter, 1861, quoted in Sir Edward Cook, The Life of Florence Nightingale, vol. 1 (London: Macmillan, 1913), 506.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Florence Nightingale — English social reformer, statistician & founder of modern nursing. Theme: \"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-attribute-my-success-to-this-i-never-gave-or-took-any/"},{"slug":"i-awoke-only-to-find-that-the-rest-of-the-world-is-still","q":"I awoke, only to find that the rest of the world is still asleep","n":"i awoke only to find that the rest of the world is still asleep","c":"disputed","real":"Sigmund Freud","credited":"Leonardo da Vinci","credit":"Misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci. The line is an anonymous first-person rewrite of Sigmund Freud's 1910 description of Leonardo — \"a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep\" — a simile Freud credited to novelist Dmitry Merezhkovsky. It appears in none of Leonardo's own writings.","cite":"Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood (1910; English translation, 1916), crediting the simile to Dmitry Merezhkovsky, The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci (1900–1901). No such line appears in Leonardo da Vinci's own writings.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Sigmund Freud — Founder of psychoanalysis · after Dmitry Merezhkovsky. Theme: \"I awoke, only to find that the rest of the world is still asleep\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-awoke-only-to-find-that-the-rest-of-the-world-is-still/"},{"slug":"i-believe-in-pink-i-believe-that-laughing-is-the-best","q":"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles","n":"i believe in pink i believe that laughing is the best calorie burner i believe in kissing kissing a lot i believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong i believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls i believe that tomorrow is another day and i believe in miracles","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (anonymous online author, c. 2007–08)","credited":"Audrey Hepburn","credit":"Misattributed to Audrey Hepburn — actually an anonymous MySpace-era post, first in print 2008 (per Wikiquote). Researched at Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in Richard Kennedy, The Disgrace of MySpace (Morrisville, NC: Lulu.com, 23 August 2008); attributed to an unidentified MySpace user, c. 2007–08. Per Wikiquote, \"Audrey Hepburn: Misattributed.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Audrey Hepburn — Actress & humanitarian. Theme: \"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-believe-in-pink-i-believe-that-laughing-is-the-best/"},{"slug":"i-came-i-saw-i-conquered","q":"I came, I saw, I conquered","n":"i came i saw i conquered","c":"verified","real":"Julius Caesar","credited":"","credit":"Julius Caesar, \"veni, vidi, vici\" (\"I came, I saw, I conquered\"), after his victory at Zela, 47 BC — as reported by Suetonius, Divus Julius 37, and Plutarch, Life of Caesar 50.","cite":"Suetonius. \"Divus Julius,\" ch. 37, in The Lives of the Twelve Caesars. Trans. Alexander Thomson, rev. T. Forester. London, 1855. Cf. Plutarch, Life of Caesar 50.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Julius Caesar — Roman general, statesman & dictator. Theme: \"I came, I saw, I conquered\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-came-i-saw-i-conquered/"},{"slug":"i-can-hear-you-the-rest-of-the-world-hears-you-and-the","q":"I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!","n":"i can hear you the rest of the world hears you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon","c":"verified","real":"George W. Bush","credited":"","credit":"George W. Bush, bullhorn remarks to rescue workers at Ground Zero, September 14, 2001","cite":"George W. Bush, \"President Bush Salutes Heroes in New York\" (remarks at the World Trade Center site, New York, N.Y., 14 September 2001), White House Office of the Press Secretary.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of George W. Bush — 43rd President of the United States (2001–2009). Theme: \"I can hear you! The rest of the world hears you! And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon!\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-can-hear-you-the-rest-of-the-world-hears-you-and-the/"},{"slug":"i-can-never-decide-whether-my-dreams-are-the-result-of-my","q":"I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams","n":"i can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts or my thoughts the result of my dreams","c":"verified","real":"D.H. Lawrence","credited":"","credit":"I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams. — D. H. Lawrence, letter to Edward Garnett, 1912","cite":"Lawrence, D. H. Letter to Edward Garnett, late January 1912. In The Letters of D. H. Lawrence, edited by Aldous Huxley. London: William Heinemann, 1932.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of D.H. Lawrence — English novelist, poet & essayist. Theme: \"I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-can-never-decide-whether-my-dreams-are-the-result-of-my/"},{"slug":"i-cannot-tell-a-lie-i-did-it-with-my-little-hatchet","q":"I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet","n":"i cannot tell a lie i did it with my little hatchet","c":"disputed","real":"Mason Locke Weems","credited":"George Washington","credit":"Not George Washington. The cherry-tree confession was invented by biographer Parson Weems in the 5th edition of his Life of Washington (1806); the popular wording is a later paraphrase. — Quotle.info","cite":"Mason L. Weems, The Life of Washington, 5th ed. (Philadelphia, 1806) — earliest documented appearance of the cherry-tree confession.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Mason Locke Weems — American clergyman, book agent, and Washington biographer. Theme: \"I cannot tell a lie, I did it with my little hatchet\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-cannot-tell-a-lie-i-did-it-with-my-little-hatchet/"},{"slug":"i-declare-to-you-that-woman-must-not-depend-upon-the","q":"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man","n":"i declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man","c":"verified","real":"Susan B. Anthony","credited":"","credit":"Susan B. Anthony, speech in San Francisco, July 1871","cite":"Susan B. Anthony, speech in San Francisco, July 1871; documented in Wikiquote, \"Susan B. Anthony\" (sourced section), and in the context of her 1871 Pacific Coast tour recounted in Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1898).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Susan B. Anthony — American suffragist and women's-rights leader. Theme: \"I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-declare-to-you-that-woman-must-not-depend-upon-the/"},{"slug":"i-destroy-my-enemies-when-i-make-them-my-friends","q":"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends","n":"i destroy my enemies when i make them my friends","c":"disputed","real":"Abraham Lincoln","credited":"Abraham Lincoln","credit":"Not Abraham Lincoln. This anecdote was first printed in 1818 about Emperor Sigismund (d. 1437); the Lincoln attribution only appears in 1940. Quote Investigator classifies it as apocryphal.","cite":"Earliest documented in the Vermont Intelligencer (Bellows Falls, VT), April 1818, crediting Emperor Sigismund; first attributed to Abraham Lincoln in 1940. See Garson O'Toole, \"I Destroy My Enemies When I Make Them My Friends,\" Quote Investigator, May 13, 2020.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States. Theme: \"I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-destroy-my-enemies-when-i-make-them-my-friends/"},{"slug":"i-disapprove-of-what-you-say-but-i-will-defend-to-the-death","q":"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it","n":"i disapprove of what you say but i will defend to the death your right to say it","c":"disputed","real":"Evelyn Beatrice Hall","credited":"Voltaire","credit":"Evelyn Beatrice Hall, writing as S. G. Tallentyre, in The Friends of Voltaire (1906) — not Voltaire.","cite":"Evelyn Beatrice Hall [S. G. Tallentyre], The Friends of Voltaire (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1906). Origin documented in Garson O'Toole, \"I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It,\" Quote Investigator, June 1, 2015.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Evelyn Beatrice Hall — English biographer · pen name 'S. G. Tallentyre'. Theme: \"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-disapprove-of-what-you-say-but-i-will-defend-to-the-death/"},{"slug":"i-do-not-believe-in-a-fate-that-falls-on-men-however-they","q":"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act","n":"i do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but i do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act","c":"disputed","real":"G. K. Chesterton","credited":"Gautama Buddha","credit":"G. K. Chesterton, \"On Holland,\" The Illustrated London News, 29 April 1922 (collected in Generally Speaking)","cite":"Chesterton, G. K. \"On Holland.\" The Illustrated London News, 29 April 1922. Collected in Generally Speaking, ch. XX. London: Methuen.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of G. K. Chesterton — English essayist, novelist & critic. Theme: \"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-do-not-believe-in-a-fate-that-falls-on-men-however-they/"},{"slug":"i-do-not-wish-women-to-have-power-over-men-but-over","q":"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves","n":"i do not wish women to have power over men but over themselves","c":"verified","real":"Mary Wollstonecraft","credited":"","credit":"Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, ch. IV (1792). Original: \"I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves.\"","cite":"Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Chapter IV (London: J. Johnson, 1792).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Mary Wollstonecraft — English writer, philosopher & pioneering feminist. Theme: \"I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-do-not-wish-women-to-have-power-over-men-but-over/"},{"slug":"i-dont-want-to-be-the-richest-man-in-the-cemetery","q":"I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery","n":"i dont want to be the richest man in the cemetery","c":"disputed","real":"Ed Wynn","credited":"Steve Jobs","credit":"Popularly credited to Steve Jobs, but the \"richest man in the cemetery\" quip traces to comedian Ed Wynn (Boston Globe, 1932) — decades before Jobs echoed a version of it in a 1993 Wall Street Journal interview. Source: Quote Investigator.","cite":"Garson O'Toole, \"I Don't Want To Be the Richest Man in the Cemetery,\" Quote Investigator, 18 November 2011, citing the Boston Globe (January 1932) on Ed Wynn and the Wall Street Journal (\"What's Next?\", 25 May 1993) on Steve Jobs.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Ed Wynn — American comedian & actor. Theme: \"I don't want to be the richest man in the cemetery\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-dont-want-to-be-the-richest-man-in-the-cemetery/"},{"slug":"i-dream-my-painting-and-then-i-paint-my-dream","q":"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream","n":"i dream my painting and then i paint my dream","c":"disputed","real":"Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot","credited":"Vincent van Gogh","credit":"Often credited to Vincent van Gogh, but it isn't his. The line belongs to painter Camille Corot: \"I dream my picture and afterwards I paint my dream\" (French: \"Je rêve mon tableau, et plus tard je peindrai mon rêve\"), in English print by 1908. The van Gogh version is unsourced and appears only from the 1990s. — Quotle.info","cite":"Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, \"Je rêve mon tableau, et plus tard je peindrai mon rêve\" (\"I dream my picture and afterwards I paint my dream\"), as translated in Musical Courier 57, no. 21 (18 November 1908): 20; also cited in Thomas Troward, Bible Mystery and Bible Meaning (London: 1918), 207.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot — French landscape painter, leading figure of the Barbizon school. Theme: \"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-dream-my-painting-and-then-i-paint-my-dream/"},{"slug":"i-exist-as-i-am-that-is-enough","q":"I exist as I am, that is enough","n":"i exist as i am that is enough","c":"verified","real":"Walt Whitman","credited":"","credit":"Walt Whitman, \"Song of Myself,\" Leaves of Grass (1855)","cite":"Whitman, Walt. “Song of Myself,” section 20, in Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn: self-published, 1855 (numbered sections from the 1867 edition).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Walt Whitman — American poet, essayist & journalist. Theme: \"I exist as I am, that is enough\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-exist-as-i-am-that-is-enough/"},{"slug":"i-fear-the-greeks-even-when-they-bring-gifts","q":"I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts","n":"i fear the greeks even when they bring gifts","c":"verified","real":"Virgil","credited":"","credit":"Virgil, Aeneid 2.49 (trans. Allen Mandelbaum, 1971)","cite":"Virgil. Aeneid, Book 2, line 49. Latin text in the Perseus Digital Library. English wording as in Allen Mandelbaum, trans., The Aeneid of Virgil (New York: Bantam Books, 1971).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Virgil — Roman poet, author of the Aeneid. Theme: \"I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-fear-the-greeks-even-when-they-bring-gifts/"},{"slug":"i-found-i-could-say-things-with-color-and-shapes-that-i","q":"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way","n":"i found i could say things with color and shapes that i couldnt say any other way","c":"verified","real":"Georgia O'Keeffe","credited":"","credit":"Georgia O'Keeffe, Some Memories of Drawings (New York: Viking Press, 1976)","cite":"Georgia O'Keeffe, Some Memories of Drawings (New York: Viking Press, 1976); earliest variant in her 'Foreword,' Anderson Galleries exhibition catalogue, New York, 1926. As documented in Wikiquote's sourced section.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Georgia O'Keeffe — American modernist painter. Theme: \"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-found-i-could-say-things-with-color-and-shapes-that-i/"},{"slug":"i-have-a-dream-that-my-four-little-children-will-one-day","q":"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character","n":"i have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character","c":"verified","real":"Martin Luther King Jr.","credited":"","credit":"Martin Luther King Jr., 'I Have a Dream' speech, March on Washington, 28 August 1963.","cite":"Martin Luther King Jr., \"I Have a Dream,\" address delivered at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C., 28 August 1963.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Martin Luther King Jr. — Baptist minister and civil-rights leader. Theme: \"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-have-a-dream-that-my-four-little-children-will-one-day/"},{"slug":"i-have-forgotten-the-books-i-have-read-and-the-dinners-i","q":"I have forgotten the books I have read and the dinners I have eaten, but they both helped make me","n":"i have forgotten the books i have read and the dinners i have eaten but they both helped make me","c":"disputed","real":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credited":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credit":"Apocryphal — attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson but unsourced; first appeared in 1896, 14 years after his death. Per Quote Investigator.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"I Have Forgotten the Books I Have Read and the Dinners I Have Eaten, But They Both Helped Make Me,\" June 20, 2016. Earliest documented instance: The Harvard Graduates' Magazine, June 1896.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Ralph Waldo Emerson — American essayist, lecturer & poet. Theme: \"I have forgotten the books I have read and the dinners I have eaten, but they both helped make me\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-have-forgotten-the-books-i-have-read-and-the-dinners-i/"},{"slug":"i-have-from-an-early-age-abjured-the-use-of-meat-and-the","q":"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men","n":"i have from an early age abjured the use of meat and the time will come when men such as i will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men","c":"disputed","real":"Dmitri Merezhkovsky","credited":"Leonardo da Vinci","credit":"Dmitri Merezhkovsky, The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci (trans. Herbert Trench, 1902) — a fictional line often misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci","cite":"Dmitri Merezhkovsky, The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, trans. Herbert Trench (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1902) — the fictional source of the line; misattribution traced by the International Vegetarian Union to Jon Wynne-Tyson's The Extended Circle: A Commonplace Book of Animal Rights (1985).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Dmitri Merezhkovsky — Russian symbolist novelist, poet & nine-time Nobel nominee. Theme: \"I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-have-from-an-early-age-abjured-the-use-of-meat-and-the/"},{"slug":"i-have-learned-over-the-years-that-when-ones-mind-is-made","q":"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear","n":"i have learned over the years that when ones mind is made up this diminishes fear","c":"verified","real":"Rosa Parks","credited":"","credit":"Rosa Parks, Quiet Strength (with Gregory J. Reed)","cite":"Rosa Parks with Gregory J. Reed, Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan). As catalogued in Wikiquote's sourced section for Rosa Parks.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Rosa Parks — American civil rights activist · \"Mother of the Civil Rights Movement\". Theme: \"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-have-learned-over-the-years-that-when-ones-mind-is-made/"},{"slug":"i-have-learned-that-success-is-to-be-measured-not-so-much","q":"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed","n":"i have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed","c":"verified","real":"Booker T. Washington","credited":"","credit":"Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery (1901), ch. 2","cite":"Booker T. Washington, Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901), ch. 2, \"Boyhood Days\"; first printed in The Outlook, 10 Nov 1900.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Booker T. Washington — American educator, author & founder of Tuskegee Institute. Theme: \"I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-have-learned-that-success-is-to-be-measured-not-so-much/"},{"slug":"i-have-made-this-longer-than-usual-because-i-have-not-had","q":"I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter","n":"i have made this longer than usual because i have not had time to make it shorter","c":"attributed","real":"Blaise Pascal","credited":"","credit":"Blaise Pascal, Lettres provinciales, Sixteenth Letter, 4 December 1656 (published 1657). Original French: “Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.” The popular English “I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter” is a modern paraphrase.","cite":"Blaise Pascal, Lettres provinciales, \"Seizième lettre aux révérends pères jésuites,\" 4 December 1656 (Paris, 1657). Original: \"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Blaise Pascal — French mathematician, physicist & religious philosopher. Theme: \"I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-have-made-this-longer-than-usual-because-i-have-not-had/"},{"slug":"i-have-not-failed-ive-just-found-10-000-ways-that-wont-work","q":"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work","n":"i have not failed ive just found 10 000 ways that wont work","c":"disputed","real":"Thomas Edison","credited":"Thomas Edison","credit":"Not Edison's exact words — a later paraphrase. His documented 1910 remark was \"I know several thousand things that won't work.\"","cite":"Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, Edison: His Life and Inventions (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1910), recounting Walter S. Mallory; earliest \"10,000 ways\" wording in J. L. Elkhorne, \"Edison — The Fabulous Drone,\" 73 XLVI, no. 3 (March 1967), p. 52.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Edison — American inventor & businessman. Theme: \"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-have-not-failed-ive-just-found-10-000-ways-that-wont-work/"},{"slug":"i-hear-and-i-forget-i-see-and-i-remember-i-do-and-i","q":"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand","n":"i hear and i forget i see and i remember i do and i understand","c":"disputed","real":"Xúnzǐ (Xun Kuang)","credited":"Confucius","credit":"Not by Confucius. This modern learning maxim is a 20th-century paraphrase; the underlying idea traces to the Confucian philosopher Xunzi (c. 310–235 BCE), per Quote Investigator and Wikiquote.","cite":"Homer H. Dubs, trans., The Works of Hsüntze (London: Arthur Probsthain, 1928); popular three-part paraphrase earliest documented as a \"Chinese adage\" by 1953. See Quote Investigator, \"Tell Me and I Forget…\" (27 Feb 2019).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Xúnzǐ (Xun Kuang) — Confucian philosopher of the Warring States period. Theme: \"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-hear-and-i-forget-i-see-and-i-remember-i-do-and-i/"},{"slug":"i-know-not-what-course-others-may-take-but-as-for-me-give","q":"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death","n":"i know not what course others may take but as for me give me liberty or give me death","c":"attributed","real":"Patrick Henry","credited":"","credit":"Patrick Henry, Speech to the Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775 (as reconstructed by William Wirt, 1817)","cite":"Patrick Henry, \"Speech to the Second Virginia Convention,\" Richmond, 23 March 1775, as reconstructed in William Wirt, Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (Philadelphia: James Webster, 1817), 119–123.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Patrick Henry — Virginia orator, Revolutionary firebrand & first Governor of Virginia. Theme: \"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-know-not-what-course-others-may-take-but-as-for-me-give/"},{"slug":"i-know-that-i-know-nothing","q":"I know that I know nothing","n":"i know that i know nothing","c":"disputed","real":"Socrates","credited":"Socrates","credit":"Socrates, in Plato, Apology 21d (trans. Benjamin Jowett). The popular wording \"I know that I know nothing\" appears nowhere in Plato; it is a later paraphrase. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Plato. Apology 21d. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Project Gutenberg ebook no. 1656. (\"I neither know nor think that I know.\") Cf. Cicero, Academica, Book I, section 16 (\"ipse se nihil scire id unum sciat\"), and Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers II.32, trans. R. D. Hicks. The popular English wording \"I know that I know nothing\" appears in none of these and has no identified author.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Socrates — Athenian philosopher. Theme: \"I know that I know nothing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-know-that-i-know-nothing/"},{"slug":"i-learned-long-ago-never-to-wrestle-with-a-pig-you-get","q":"I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it","n":"i learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig you get dirty and besides the pig likes it","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (popularized by Cyrus S. Ching)","credited":"George Bernard Shaw","credit":"Anonymous folk adage (popularized by Cyrus S. Ching, 1948); frequently misattributed to George Bernard Shaw. Per Quote Investigator, the Shaw ascription is unsupported.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Never Wrestle with a Pig. You Both Get Dirty and the Pig Likes It,\" July 8, 2017. Earliest documented telling of the popular form: profile of Cyrus Stuart Ching, Saturday Evening Post, 1948. The wording is an anonymous adage; the ascription to George Bernard Shaw is unsupported.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Cyrus Stuart Ching — U.S. labor mediator · first head of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. Theme: \"I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-learned-long-ago-never-to-wrestle-with-a-pig-you-get/"},{"slug":"i-learned-that-courage-was-not-the-absence-of-fear-but-the","q":"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it","n":"i learned that courage was not the absence of fear but the triumph over it","c":"verified","real":"Nelson Mandela","credited":"","credit":"Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (1994). Via Quotle.info","cite":"Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (London: Little, Brown, 1994).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Nelson Mandela — anti-apartheid leader & South African president. Theme: \"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-learned-that-courage-was-not-the-absence-of-fear-but-the/"},{"slug":"i-like-work-it-fascinates-me-i-can-sit-and-look-at-it-for","q":"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours","n":"i like work it fascinates me i can sit and look at it for hours","c":"verified","real":"Jerome K. Jerome","credited":"Oscar Wilde","credit":"— Jerome K. Jerome","cite":"Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (Bristol: J. W. Arrowsmith, 1889), ch. 15.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Jerome K. Jerome — English humorist & novelist. Theme: \"I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-like-work-it-fascinates-me-i-can-sit-and-look-at-it-for/"},{"slug":"i-love-those-who-can-smile-in-trouble","q":"I love those who can smile in trouble","n":"i love those who can smile in trouble","c":"disputed","real":"Thomas Paine","credited":"Leonardo da Vinci","credit":"Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. I (1776) — original wording: \"I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.\"","cite":"Thomas Paine, \"The American Crisis,\" No. I (Philadelphia, December 1776), in The Writings of Thomas Paine, Vol. I, ed. Moncure Daniel Conway (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Paine — Anglo-American revolutionary pamphleteer. Theme: \"I love those who can smile in trouble\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-love-those-who-can-smile-in-trouble/"},{"slug":"i-may-be-compelled-to-face-danger-but-never-fear-it","q":"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it","n":"i may be compelled to face danger but never fear it","c":"disputed","real":"Clara Barton","credited":"Clara Barton","credit":"attributed to Clara Barton, but undocumented. No letter, diary, or book has ever been cited, and the line appears in none of her published works or standard biographies. Via quotle.info","cite":"No primary source has been located. The earliest traceable appearances are quote-aggregator listings — e.g. BrainyQuote, Internet Archive capture of 13 November 2019. For Barton's documented words on the same subject, see William E. Barton, The Life of Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross, vol. 1 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1922), 159.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Clara Barton — Civil War nurse & founder of the American Red Cross. Theme: \"I may be compelled to face danger, but never fear it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-may-be-compelled-to-face-danger-but-never-fear-it/"},{"slug":"i-mourn-the-loss-of-thousands-of-precious-lives-but-i-will","q":"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that","n":"i mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives but i will not rejoice in the death of one not even an enemy returning hate for hate multiplies hate adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that","c":"disputed","real":"Jessica Dovey (opening line) & Martin Luther King Jr. (the rest)","credited":"Martin Luther King Jr.","credit":"Opening line by Jessica Dovey (2011); the rest from Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love (1963).","cite":"Martin Luther King Jr., \"Loving Your Enemies,\" in Strength to Love (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), ch. 5 (the genuine passage); opening sentence written by Jessica Dovey, Facebook status, May 2011.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Martin Luther King Jr. — Baptist minister & civil-rights leader. Theme: \"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-mourn-the-loss-of-thousands-of-precious-lives-but-i-will/"},{"slug":"i-never-ran-my-train-off-the-track-and-i-never-lost-a","q":"I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger","n":"i never ran my train off the track and i never lost a passenger","c":"attributed","real":"Harriet Tubman","credited":"","credit":"Attributed to Harriet Tubman — genuine to her record but unsourced; the exact wording appears in neither her 1869 nor 1886 biography, surfacing in print only in a 1996 anthology.","cite":"Earliest documented in print in Mary Biggs, comp., Women's Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996), 2; the wording is absent from Sarah H. Bradford, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (Auburn, N.Y.: W. J. Moses, 1869) and from her Harriet, the Moses of Her People (New York: Geo. R. Lockwood & Son, 1886).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Harriet Tubman — Abolitionist & Underground Railroad conductor. Theme: \"I never ran my train off the track, and I never lost a passenger\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-never-ran-my-train-off-the-track-and-i-never-lost-a/"},{"slug":"i-postpone-death-by-living-by-suffering-by-error-by-risking","q":"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing","n":"i postpone death by living by suffering by error by risking by giving by losing","c":"verified","real":"Anaïs Nin","credited":"","credit":"Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume One: 1931–1934 (published 1966), entry dated March 1933. Verified at quotle.info","cite":"Nin, Anaïs. The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume One: 1931–1934. Edited and with an introduction by Gunther Stuhlmann. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World / The Swallow Press, 1966. Entry dated March 1933 (as dated in Wikiquote's sourced diary section).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Anaïs Nin — French-born American diarist, essayist & novelist. Theme: \"I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-postpone-death-by-living-by-suffering-by-error-by-risking/"},{"slug":"i-prefer-to-be-true-to-myself-even-at-the-hazard-of","q":"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others","n":"i prefer to be true to myself even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others","c":"verified","real":"Frederick Douglass","credited":"","credit":"Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), ch. V","cite":"Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845), ch. V.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Frederick Douglass — American abolitionist, orator, writer & statesman. Theme: \"I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-prefer-to-be-true-to-myself-even-at-the-hazard-of/"},{"slug":"i-sincerely-believe-that-banking-institutions-are-more","q":"I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies","n":"i sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies","c":"disputed","real":"Thomas Jefferson","credited":"Thomas Jefferson","credit":"Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Taylor, 28 May 1816 (genuine wording: \"banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies\")","cite":"Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 28 May 1816, in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 10 (Princeton: Princeton University Press); transcription at Founders Online, National Archives.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Jefferson — 3rd U.S. President & Founding Father. Theme: \"I sincerely believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-sincerely-believe-that-banking-institutions-are-more/"},{"slug":"i-think-therefore-i-am","q":"I think, therefore I am","n":"i think therefore i am","c":"verified","real":"René Descartes","credited":"","credit":"René Descartes, Discourse on the Method, Part IV (1637)","cite":"René Descartes, Discourse on the Method, Part IV (Leiden, 1637); \"je pense, donc je suis.\" English: The Philosophical Works of Descartes, trans. Elizabeth S. Haldane & G. R. T. Ross (Cambridge, 1911).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of René Descartes — French philosopher, mathematician & scientist. Theme: \"I think, therefore I am\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-think-therefore-i-am/"},{"slug":"i-took-a-deep-breath-and-listened-to-the-old-brag-of-my","q":"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am","n":"i took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart i am i am i am","c":"verified","real":"Sylvia Plath","credited":"","credit":"Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963), ch. 20","cite":"Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (London: Heinemann, 1963), ch. 20 [first published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas].","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Sylvia Plath — American poet & novelist. Theme: \"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-took-a-deep-breath-and-listened-to-the-old-brag-of-my/"},{"slug":"i-was-a-young-man-with-uninformed-ideas-i-threw-out-queries","q":"I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them","n":"i was a young man with uninformed ideas i threw out queries suggestions wondering all the time over everything and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire people made a religion of them","c":"disputed","real":"\"Lady Hope\" (Elizabeth Reid Cotton)","credited":"Charles Darwin","credit":"Not Charles Darwin. This line is invented dialogue from the fabricated 1915 \"Lady Hope\" deathbed-conversion story (Watchman-Examiner, Boston), which Darwin's family publicly denied. Darwin never said it.","cite":"[\"Lady Hope\" (Elizabeth Reid Cotton)], \"Darwin and Christianity,\" Watchman-Examiner (Boston), 19 August 1915, p. 1071. Widely reprinted; the account is rejected as fabricated by the Darwin Correspondence Project and Darwin's family.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of \"Lady Hope\" (Elizabeth Reid Cotton) — British evangelist & temperance writer. Theme: \"I was a young man with uninformed ideas. I threw out queries, suggestions, wondering all the time over everything; and to my astonishment the ideas took like wildfire. People made a religion of them\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-was-a-young-man-with-uninformed-ideas-i-threw-out-queries/"},{"slug":"i-was-taught-that-the-way-of-progress-was-neither-swift-nor","q":"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy","n":"i was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy","c":"verified","real":"Marie Curie","credited":"","credit":"Marie Curie, Autobiographical Notes, in Pierre Curie (Macmillan, 1923). Original wording: \"the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.\" Via Quotle.info","cite":"Marie Curie, Pierre Curie, with Autobiographical Notes, trans. Charlotte and Vernon Kellogg (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, two-time Nobel laureate. Theme: \"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-was-taught-that-the-way-of-progress-was-neither-swift-nor/"},{"slug":"i-went-to-the-woods-because-i-wished-to-live-deliberately","q":"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived","n":"i went to the woods because i wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if i could not learn what it had to teach and not when i came to die discover that i had not lived","c":"verified","real":"Henry David Thoreau","credited":"","credit":"Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), ch. II, \"Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.\"","cite":"Henry David Thoreau, \"Where I Lived, and What I Lived For,\" in 'Walden; or, Life in the Woods' (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, naturalist & Transcendentalist. Theme: \"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-went-to-the-woods-because-i-wished-to-live-deliberately/"},{"slug":"i-would-always-rather-be-happy-than-dignified","q":"I would always rather be happy than dignified","n":"i would always rather be happy than dignified","c":"verified","real":"Charlotte Brontë","credited":"","credit":"I would always rather be happy than dignified. — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)","cite":"Brontë, Charlotte [as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 34.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Charlotte Brontë — English novelist and poet. Theme: \"I would always rather be happy than dignified\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-would-always-rather-be-happy-than-dignified/"},{"slug":"i-would-have-written-a-shorter-letter-but-i-did-not-have","q":"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time","n":"i would have written a shorter letter but i did not have the time","c":"disputed","real":"Blaise Pascal","credited":"Mark Twain","credit":"Not Mark Twain. The line is a modern paraphrase of Blaise Pascal, Lettres Provinciales (1657): \"I have made this one longer only because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.\"","cite":"Blaise Pascal, Les Provinciales (Lettre XVI, 1657); English tradition traced in Garson O'Toole, \"If I Had More Time, I Would Have Written a Shorter Letter,\" Quote Investigator, 28 Apr 2012.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Blaise Pascal — French mathematician, physicist & philosopher. Theme: \"I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-would-have-written-a-shorter-letter-but-i-did-not-have/"},{"slug":"i-would-like-to-be-remembered-as-a-person-who-wanted-to-be","q":"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free","n":"i would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free","c":"attributed","real":"Rosa Parks","credited":"","credit":"Attributed to Rosa Parks — widely credited but not tied to a confirmed primary source.","cite":"Widely attributed to Rosa Parks; commonly linked to her interview with the Academy of Achievement, Williamsburg, VA, June 2, 1995, though that transcript does not contain the exact wording. Closest documented statement: Rosa Parks, remarks on her 77th birthday, February 4, 1990 (per Wikiquote). No verified primary source pins this exact wording.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Rosa Parks — American civil rights activist. Theme: \"I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-would-like-to-be-remembered-as-a-person-who-wanted-to-be/"},{"slug":"i-would-maintain-that-thanks-are-the-highest-form-of","q":"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder","n":"i would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder","c":"verified","real":"G. K. Chesterton","credited":"","credit":"G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England (1917), ch. VI","cite":"G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England (London: Chatto & Windus, 1917), ch. VI, \"The Age of the Crusades.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of G. K. Chesterton — English essayist, novelist & Christian apologist. Theme: \"I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-would-maintain-that-thanks-are-the-highest-form-of/"},{"slug":"i-would-rather-die-of-passion-than-of-boredom","q":"I would rather die of passion than of boredom","n":"i would rather die of passion than of boredom","c":"disputed","real":"Émile Zola","credited":"Vincent van Gogh","credit":"Émile Zola, Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), spoken by Octave Mouret; quoted by Vincent van Gogh in his letter to Theo, 2 October 1884.","cite":"Émile Zola, Au Bonheur des Dames (Paris: Charpentier, 1883); quoted by Vincent van Gogh, letter to Theo van Gogh, Nuenen, 2 October 1884 (Letter 464).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Émile Zola — French novelist, leader of literary Naturalism. Theme: \"I would rather die of passion than of boredom\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-would-rather-die-of-passion-than-of-boredom/"},{"slug":"i-would-rather-have-questions-that-cant-be-answered-than","q":"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned","n":"i would rather have questions that cant be answered than answers that cant be questioned","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (anonymous, popularized c. 2014)","credited":"Richard Feynman","credit":"Anonymous (often misattributed to Richard Feynman); descended from a 1995 aphorism by J. J. Hahn. No evidence Feynman said it. — Quotle.info","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"I Would Rather Have Questions That Can't Be Answered Than Answers That Can't Be Questioned,\" Quote Investigator, 22 October 2024. Earliest documented Feynman attribution: Wikiquote Talk, 18 September 2014; ancestor saying: J. J. Hahn, alt.atheism, 16 January 1995.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of J. J. Hahn — University of Minnesota · alt.atheism Usenet poster. Theme: \"I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/i-would-rather-have-questions-that-cant-be-answered-than/"},{"slug":"if-a-man-does-not-know-to-what-port-he-is-sailing-no-wind","q":"If a man does not know to what port he is sailing, no wind is favorable","n":"if a man does not know to what port he is sailing no wind is favorable","c":"disputed","real":"Seneca the Younger","credited":"John F. Kennedy","credit":"Seneca the Younger, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 71 — popularized by John F. Kennedy in 1960","cite":"Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter 71.3: \"Ignoranti quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est.\" Standard English translation, Loeb Classical Library. Popularized in English by John F. Kennedy, Speech at the Coliseum, Raleigh, NC, 17 September 1960 (there attributed to Socrates).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Seneca the Younger — Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist & statesman. Theme: \"If a man does not know to what port he is sailing, no wind is favorable\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-a-man-does-not-know-to-what-port-he-is-sailing-no-wind/"},{"slug":"if-a-man-does-not-know-to-what-port-he-is-steering-no-wind","q":"If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him","n":"if a man does not know to what port he is steering no wind is favourable to him","c":"verified","real":"Seneca the Younger","credited":"Seneca","credit":"Seneca the Younger, Moral Letters to Lucilius 71.3 (c. AD 65); this English wording from Thomas Benfield Harbottle, Dictionary of Quotations (Classical), 1st ed. 1897 (p. 93 in the 1906 third edition).","cite":"Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 71.3. Latin text: The Latin Library, Book VIII. English wording first printed in Thomas Benfield Harbottle, Dictionary of Quotations (Classical), 1st ed. (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co.; New York: Macmillan, December 1897); wording unchanged at p. 93 of the 3rd ed. (1906). Cf. Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, trans. Richard M. Gummere (London: Heinemann; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920), 2:75, which renders the line differently.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Seneca the Younger — Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist & statesman. Theme: \"If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-a-man-does-not-know-to-what-port-he-is-steering-no-wind/"},{"slug":"if-a-man-will-begin-with-certainties-he-shall-end-in-doubts","q":"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties","n":"if a man will begin with certainties he shall end in doubts but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties","c":"verified","real":"Francis Bacon","credited":"","credit":"Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (1605), First Book, section V.8","cite":"Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning (London, 1605), First Book, section V.8.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Francis Bacon — English philosopher, statesman & pioneer of the scientific method. Theme: \"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-a-man-will-begin-with-certainties-he-shall-end-in-doubts/"},{"slug":"if-i-can-stop-one-heart-from-breaking-i-shall-not-live-in","q":"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain","n":"if i can stop one heart from breaking i shall not live in vain","c":"verified","real":"Emily Dickinson","credited":"","credit":"Emily Dickinson","cite":"Dickinson, Emily. \"If I can stop one heart from breaking.\" In Poems, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, \"Life\" no. VI. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1890.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Emily Dickinson — American poet. Theme: \"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-i-can-stop-one-heart-from-breaking-i-shall-not-live-in/"},{"slug":"if-i-had-asked-people-what-they-wanted-they-would-have-said","q":"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses","n":"if i had asked people what they wanted they would have said faster horses","c":"disputed","real":"No verified author (misattributed to Henry Ford)","credited":"Henry Ford","credit":"Misattributed to Henry Ford — no documented source; first tied to him in 2001, 54 years after his death.","cite":"Garson O’Toole (Quote Investigator), “My Customers Would Have Asked For a Faster Horse,” QuoteInvestigator.com, 28 July 2011. Earliest attribution to Ford documented in a 2001 letter to Marketing Week.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry Ford — Founder of Ford Motor Company. Theme: \"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-i-had-asked-people-what-they-wanted-they-would-have-said/"},{"slug":"if-i-have-seen-further-it-is-by-standing-on-the-shoulders","q":"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants","n":"if i have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants","c":"verified","real":"Isaac Newton","credited":"","credit":"Isaac Newton, letter to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1675","cite":"Isaac Newton to Robert Hooke, 5 February 1675 (O.S.), in The Correspondence of Isaac Newton, vol. 1, ed. H. W. Turnbull (Cambridge, 1959); text first published 1855.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Isaac Newton — English physicist & mathematician. Theme: \"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-i-have-seen-further-it-is-by-standing-on-the-shoulders/"},{"slug":"if-im-going-to-sing-like-someone-else-then-i-dont-need-to","q":"If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all","n":"if im going to sing like someone else then i dont need to sing at all","c":"attributed","real":"Billie Holiday","credited":"","credit":"attributed to Billie Holiday. No primary source has ever been located for this wording; it has been listed as unsourced on Wikiquote since 2009. Nearest documented articulation: Lady Sings the Blues (1956), ch. 4. Via Quotle.info","cite":"No primary source located for this wording. Nearest documented articulation: Billie Holiday with William Dufty, Lady Sings the Blues (New York: Doubleday, 1956), ch. 4. Compare Billie Holiday, interview by Willis Conover, Music USA program #447-B, recorded 15 February 1956, broadcast 20 March 1956, Music Library Conover Collection, University of North Texas Libraries.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Billie Holiday — American jazz singer, born Eleanora Fagan. Theme: \"If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-im-going-to-sing-like-someone-else-then-i-dont-need-to/"},{"slug":"if-it-is-not-right-do-not-do-it-if-it-is-not-true-do-not","q":"If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it","n":"if it is not right do not do it if it is not true do not say it","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"","credit":"Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.17 (trans. George Long, 1862)","cite":"Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Book 12, sec. 17. Translated by George Long. London: Bell and Daldy, 1862.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"If it is not right, do not do it. If it is not true, do not say it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-it-is-not-right-do-not-do-it-if-it-is-not-true-do-not/"},{"slug":"if-my-mind-can-conceive-it-and-my-heart-can-believe-it-then","q":"If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it","n":"if my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it then i can achieve it","c":"disputed","real":"Jesse Jackson","credited":"Muhammad Ali","credit":"Not really Muhammad Ali. The wording traces to Jesse Jackson's 1978 speech — \"if my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I know I can achieve it because I am somebody\" — itself built on Napoleon Hill's \"Think and Grow Rich\" (1937). Wikiquote lists the Ali version as misattributed.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"If My Mind Can Conceive It and My Heart Can Believe It, Then I Know I Can Achieve It,\" March 29, 2022, quoteinvestigator.com. Traces the wording to a 1978 Jesse Jackson speech and Napoleon Hill's 'Think and Grow Rich' (1937).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Jesse Jackson — American civil-rights leader, Baptist minister & orator. Theme: \"If my mind can conceive it and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-my-mind-can-conceive-it-and-my-heart-can-believe-it-then/"},{"slug":"if-one-advances-confidently-in-the-direction-of-his-dreams","q":"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours","n":"if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours","c":"verified","real":"Henry David Thoreau","credited":"","credit":"Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), \"Conclusion\"","cite":"Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854), \"Conclusion.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, poet & naturalist. Theme: \"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-one-advances-confidently-in-the-direction-of-his-dreams/"},{"slug":"if-opportunity-doesnt-knock-build-a-door","q":"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door","n":"if opportunity doesnt knock build a door","c":"attributed","real":"Milton Berle","credited":"","credit":"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. — attributed to Milton Berle (documented in print only from 1993; no primary source; researcher Barry Popik doubts he said it)","cite":"Earliest documented in Arthur Pine and Julie Houston, One Door Closes, Another Door Opens (New York: Delacorte Press / Dell, 1993/1995), attributed to Milton Berle; no primary source located. Citation history compiled by Barry Popik.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Milton Berle — American comedian, 'Mr. Television'. Theme: \"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-opportunity-doesnt-knock-build-a-door/"},{"slug":"if-that-plane-leaves-the-ground-and-youre-not-on-it-youll","q":"If that plane leaves the ground and you're not on it, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life","n":"if that plane leaves the ground and youre not on it youll regret it maybe not today maybe not tomorrow but soon and for the rest of your life","c":"disputed","real":"Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein & Howard Koch","credited":"\"…and you're not on it\"","credit":"Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) in Casablanca (1942), screenplay by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch. Often misquoted as \"…and you're not on it.\"","cite":"Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch, Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz (Burbank, CA: Warner Bros., 1942); based on the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison (1940). Dialogue as transcribed in \"Casablanca (film),\" Wikiquote.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein & Howard Koch — Academy Award, Best Adapted Screenplay. Theme: \"If that plane leaves the ground and you're not on it, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-that-plane-leaves-the-ground-and-youre-not-on-it-youll/"},{"slug":"if-the-american-people-ever-allow-private-banks-to-control","q":"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered","n":"if the american people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency first by inflation then by deflation the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered","c":"disputed","real":"Thomas Jefferson","credited":"Thomas Jefferson","credit":"Spurious — attributed to Thomas Jefferson but found in none of his writings; first documented in print in 1933. Source: Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello).","cite":"\"Private Banks (Spurious Quotation),\" Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia, Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello); earliest located appearance, \"Patman Argues for Payment in Money,\" Dallas Morning News, 16 January 1933.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Jefferson — 3rd U.S. President & principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Theme: \"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-the-american-people-ever-allow-private-banks-to-control/"},{"slug":"if-the-bee-disappeared-off-the-surface-of-the-globe-man","q":"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, man would have only four years left to live","n":"if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe man would have only four years left to live","c":"disputed","real":"No documented author (Einstein wrongly credited)","credited":"Albert Einstein","credit":"Not said by Albert Einstein. No source in his work; the \"four years\" version first appears in the French beekeeping press in 1965, a decade after his death. Origin undocumented. — Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented (with the four-year deadline) in \"La Vie des Bêtes et l'Ami des Bêtes\" (Paris), May 1965, already ascribed to Einstein; traced in Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"If the Bee Disappeared Off the Face of the Earth, Man Would Only Have Four Years Left To Live,\" 27 August 2013.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Albert Einstein — theoretical physicist. Theme: \"If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, man would have only four years left to live\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-the-bee-disappeared-off-the-surface-of-the-globe-man/"},{"slug":"if-the-first-woman-god-ever-made-was-strong-enough-to-turn","q":"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back","n":"if the first woman god ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone these women together ought to be able to turn it back","c":"attributed","real":"Sojourner Truth","credited":"","credit":"Attributed to Sojourner Truth, 1851 Akron speech — but this exact wording is Frances Dana Gage's 1863 reconstruction, not the contemporaneous transcript. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Frances Dana Gage, \"Sojourner Truth,\" recollection of the 1851 Akron Women's Rights Convention, first published 1863; reprinted in Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony & Matilda Joslyn Gage, eds., History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 1 (1881). Earliest record: Marius Robinson, Anti-Slavery Bugle, 21 June 1851 (differing wording).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Sojourner Truth — abolitionist & women's-rights orator. Theme: \"If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-the-first-woman-god-ever-made-was-strong-enough-to-turn/"},{"slug":"if-there-is-no-struggle-there-is-no-progress","q":"If there is no struggle, there is no progress","n":"if there is no struggle there is no progress","c":"verified","real":"Frederick Douglass","credited":"","credit":"Frederick Douglass, \"West India Emancipation\" speech, Canandaigua, New York, August 3, 1857","cite":"Frederick Douglass, \"West India Emancipation\" (address, Canandaigua, New York, 3 August 1857), first published in Two Speeches, by Frederick Douglass (Rochester, N.Y., 1857).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Frederick Douglass — American abolitionist, orator & writer. Theme: \"If there is no struggle, there is no progress\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-there-is-no-struggle-there-is-no-progress/"},{"slug":"if-theres-a-book-that-you-want-to-read-but-it-hasnt-been","q":"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it","n":"if theres a book that you want to read but it hasnt been written yet then you must write it","c":"attributed","real":"Toni Morrison","credited":"","credit":"Toni Morrison, remarks to the Ohio Arts Council, 1981 (reported in The Cincinnati Enquirer). Her documented words: \"If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.\"","cite":"Ellen Brown, \"Writing Is Third Career For Morrison,\" The Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 September 1981, F11 (as documented by Quote Investigator, \"If You Find a Book You Really Want To Read But It Hasn't Been Written Yet, Then You Must Write It,\" 16 July 2018).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Toni Morrison — American novelist, editor, and Nobel laureate. Theme: \"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-theres-a-book-that-you-want-to-read-but-it-hasnt-been/"},{"slug":"if-voting-made-any-difference-they-wouldnt-let-us-do-it","q":"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it","n":"if voting made any difference they wouldnt let us do it","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — an anonymous activist slogan","credited":"Mark Twain","credit":"Not Mark Twain — an anonymous 20th-century activist slogan, misattributed to Twain only from around 2008.","cite":"Earliest documented as an anonymous activist slogan (1960s onward); no verified attribution to Mark Twain. See Matt Seybold, \"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it,\" Center for Mark Twain Studies, The Apocryphal Twain.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Mark Twain — American author & humorist. Theme: \"If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-voting-made-any-difference-they-wouldnt-let-us-do-it/"},{"slug":"if-we-dont-end-war-war-will-end-us","q":"If we don't end war, war will end us","n":"if we dont end war war will end us","c":"verified","real":"H. G. Wells","credited":"","credit":"H. G. Wells, Things to Come (1936 film; screenplay by Wells, published as a book 1935) — spoken by John Cabal","cite":"H. G. Wells, Things to Come, dir. William Cameron Menzies (London Film Productions, 1936); screenplay by Wells, adapted from The Shape of Things to Come (1933) and published by Wells as Things to Come (1935).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of H. G. Wells — English novelist, historian & prophet of science fiction. Theme: \"If we don't end war, war will end us\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-we-dont-end-war-war-will-end-us/"},{"slug":"if-we-have-our-own-why-in-life-we-shall-get-along-with","q":"If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how","n":"if we have our own why in life we shall get along with almost any how","c":"verified","real":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credited":"","credit":"Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1889), \"Maxims and Arrows,\" 12; trans. Walter Kaufmann.","cite":"Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1889), \"Maxims and Arrows,\" 12; trans. Walter Kaufmann, The Portable Nietzsche (New York: Viking, 1954).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Friedrich Nietzsche — German philosopher & philologist. Theme: \"If we have our own why in life, we shall get along with almost any how\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-we-have-our-own-why-in-life-we-shall-get-along-with/"},{"slug":"if-you-always-do-what-youve-always-done-youll-always-get","q":"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got","n":"if you always do what youve always done youll always get what youve always got","c":"disputed","real":"Jessie Potter (leading candidate)","credited":"Henry Ford","credit":"Not Henry Ford. The earliest documented use is 1981, attributed to educator Jessie Potter; the Ford credit is spurious. — Quotle.info","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"If You Always Do What You've Always Done, You Always Get What You've Always Gotten,\" QuoteInvestigator.com, April 25, 2016. Earliest documented instance: Milwaukee Sentinel, 1981, attributed to Jessie Potter.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Jessie Potter — American educator on family relationships & human sexuality. Theme: \"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-always-do-what-youve-always-done-youll-always-get/"},{"slug":"if-you-are-neutral-in-situations-of-injustice-you-have","q":"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor","n":"if you are neutral in situations of injustice you have chosen the side of the oppressor","c":"verified","real":"Desmond Tutu","credited":"","credit":"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. —Desmond Tutu, quoted in Robert McAfee Brown, Unexpected News (1984)","cite":"Robert McAfee Brown, Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1984), 19 (quoting Desmond Tutu).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Desmond Tutu — South African archbishop, anti-apartheid leader & Nobel Peace laureate. Theme: \"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-are-neutral-in-situations-of-injustice-you-have/"},{"slug":"if-you-are-silent-about-your-pain-theyll-kill-you-and-say","q":"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it","n":"if you are silent about your pain theyll kill you and say you enjoyed it","c":"disputed","real":"Zora Neale Hurston","credited":"Zora Neale Hurston","credit":"attributed to Zora Neale Hurston (no documented source; unverified)","cite":"No primary source located. Widely attributed to Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) but found in none of her documented works; recorded as \"Attributed\" with no citation in WIST, and absent from Wikiquote's sourced list.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Zora Neale Hurston — American author, anthropologist & folklorist of the Harlem Renaissance. Theme: \"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-are-silent-about-your-pain-theyll-kill-you-and-say/"},{"slug":"if-you-build-it-they-will-come","q":"If you build it, they will come","n":"if you build it they will come","c":"disputed","real":"W. P. Kinsella","credited":"\"If you build it, they will come\"","credit":"W. P. Kinsella, Shoeless Joe (1982); spoken in Field of Dreams (1989). Commonly misquoted as \"If you build it, they will come.\"","cite":"Kinsella, W. P. Shoeless Joe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982, 3. Line first published in \"Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa,\" in the 1980 collection of the same name; carried verbatim into Field of Dreams, written and directed by Phil Alden Robinson (Universal Pictures, 1989).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of W. P. Kinsella — Canadian novelist & short-story writer. Theme: \"If you build it, they will come\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-build-it-they-will-come/"},{"slug":"if-you-can-dream-it-you-can-do-it","q":"If you can dream it, you can do it","n":"if you can dream it you can do it","c":"disputed","real":"Tom Fitzgerald","credited":"Walt Disney","credit":"Origin disputed. Written for Epcot's Horizons (1983) as \"If we can dream it, we can do it\" by Imagineer Tom Fitzgerald; copywriter Sheralyn Silverstein claims the \"you\" wording for a 1981–82 General Electric campaign. Not Walt Disney — the Disney Archives found no record of him saying it.","cite":"Dave Smith, \"Ask Dave\" (D23, 27 February–12 March 2013), quoting Imagineer Tom Fitzgerald; also Dave Smith, Disney Trivia from the Vault (2012), 243. Line written for Horizons, Epcot, opened 1 October 1983, as \"If we can dream it, we can do it.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Tom Fitzgerald — 40+ years at WED/Imagineering · writer of Epcot's Horizons (1983). Theme: \"If you can dream it, you can do it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-can-dream-it-you-can-do-it/"},{"slug":"if-you-cant-explain-it-simply-you-dont-understand-it-well","q":"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough","n":"if you cant explain it simply you dont understand it well enough","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — a modern saying","credited":"Albert Einstein","credit":"Unsourced modern aphorism — often credited to Albert Einstein or Richard Feynman, but found in neither; nearest documented root is Ernest Rutherford's \"explain it to a barmaid\" maxim.","cite":"\"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.\" No primary source located in Einstein's writings; cataloged as merely 'attributed' by WIST Quotations and traced to Ernest Rutherford's 'barmaid' maxim by Garson O'Toole, Quote Investigator (19 Oct 2019).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Albert Einstein — Theoretical physicist. Theme: \"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-cant-explain-it-simply-you-dont-understand-it-well/"},{"slug":"if-you-dont-like-something-change-it-if-you-cant-change-it","q":"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude","n":"if you dont like something change it if you cant change it change your attitude","c":"attributed","real":"Maya Angelou","credited":"","credit":"commonly credited to Maya Angelou; a paraphrase of a line from her 1993 book \"Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now\" (\"...change the way you think about it. Don't complain.\").","cite":"Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now (New York: Random House, 1993). The circulating \"change your attitude\" wording is a later paraphrase of this text.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Maya Angelou — American memoirist, poet & civil-rights activist. Theme: \"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-dont-like-something-change-it-if-you-cant-change-it/"},{"slug":"if-you-dont-read-the-newspaper-you-are-uninformed-if-you-do","q":"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed","n":"if you dont read the newspaper you are uninformed if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (a late-20th-century coinage)","credited":"Mark Twain","credit":"Not said by Mark Twain — a modern aphorism of unknown authorship, misattributed to Twain only from around 1998.","cite":"No authenticated Twain source exists. Earliest documented as an anonymous modern saying attributed to Twain in a 2000 Usenet post; see Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"If You Don't Read the Newspaper You Are Uninformed, If You Do Read the Newspaper You Are Misinformed,\" December 3, 2016.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Mark Twain — American humorist, novelist & lecturer. Theme: \"If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-dont-read-the-newspaper-you-are-uninformed-if-you-do/"},{"slug":"if-you-dont-stand-for-something-you-will-fall-for-anything","q":"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything","n":"if you dont stand for something you will fall for anything","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (a modern American proverb)","credited":"Malcolm X","credit":"Anonymous American proverb (in print by 1945; earliest close match Gordon A. Eadie). Often misattributed to Malcolm X.","cite":"Earliest documented close match: Gordon A. Eadie, \"The Over-All Mental-Health Needs of the Industrial Plant, with Special Reference to War Veterans,\" Mental Hygiene 29, no. 1 (January 1945): 101–103; popularized by Irene Dunne, 'America's Town Meeting of the Air' (May 1945), reprinted in Reader's Digest (July 1945). Per Quote Investigator.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Malcolm X — American civil-rights leader & minister. Theme: \"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-dont-stand-for-something-you-will-fall-for-anything/"},{"slug":"if-you-have-a-garden-and-a-library-you-have-everything-you","q":"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need","n":"if you have a garden and a library you have everything you need","c":"attributed","real":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","credited":"","credit":"Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 9.4, to Varro (46 BC); Latin: \"Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.\" The popular English \"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need\" is a modern paraphrase.","cite":"Marcus Tullius Cicero, Letters to Friends (Epistulae ad Familiares) 9.4.1, to M. Terentius Varro, 46 BC, trans. W. Glynn Williams, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Tullius Cicero — Roman statesman, orator & philosopher. Theme: \"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-have-a-garden-and-a-library-you-have-everything-you/"},{"slug":"if-you-have-an-apple-and-i-have-an-apple-and-we-exchange","q":"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas","n":"if you have an apple and i have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and i will still each have one apple but if you have an idea and i have an idea and we exchange these ideas then each of us will have two ideas","c":"disputed","real":"Charles F. Brannan (apple version); origin traces to an anonymous 1917 magazine advertisement","credited":"George Bernard Shaw","credit":"Misattributed to George Bernard Shaw. No evidence he said or wrote it; the idea traces to a 1917 SYSTEM magazine advertisement and the apple wording was popularized by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan in the 1940s. —Quotle.info","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"You Have an Idea. I Have an Idea. We Swap. Now We Each Have Two Ideas,\" quoteinvestigator.com, Dec. 13, 2011. Earliest documented form: \"The Difference Between Dollars and Ideas,\" SYSTEM magazine advertisement, Chicago Tribune, 1917.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Charles F. Brannan — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture. Theme: \"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-have-an-apple-and-i-have-an-apple-and-we-exchange/"},{"slug":"if-you-judge-people-you-have-no-time-to-love-them","q":"If you judge people, you have no time to love them","n":"if you judge people you have no time to love them","c":"disputed","real":"Mother Teresa","credited":"Anonymous / unknown","credit":"Attributed to Mother Teresa — but flagged as NOT her authentic words by the Mother Teresa Center; an unsourced paraphrase of uncertain origin.","cite":"Mother Teresa Center. \"Quotes Falsely Attributed to Mother Teresa.\" motherteresa.org, accessed 2026. Listed among paraphrases that are \"not her authentic words.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Mother Teresa — Catholic nun, missionary & Nobel Peace laureate. Theme: \"If you judge people, you have no time to love them\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-judge-people-you-have-no-time-to-love-them/"},{"slug":"if-you-live-long-enough-youll-make-mistakes-but-if-you","q":"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person","n":"if you live long enough youll make mistakes but if you learn from them youll be a better person","c":"verified","real":"Bill Clinton","credited":"","credit":"Bill Clinton, 1992 presidential-campaign speech, reported in The New York Times, 29 June 1992.","cite":"B. Drummond Ayres Jr., \"THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Reporter's Notebook; Clinton Enjoying Mystery Over Choice for Ticket,\" The New York Times, 29 June 1992.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Bill Clinton — 42nd U.S. President & former Governor of Arkansas. Theme: \"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-live-long-enough-youll-make-mistakes-but-if-you/"},{"slug":"if-you-live-to-be-a-hundred-i-want-to-live-to-be-a-hundred","q":"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you","n":"if you live to be a hundred i want to live to be a hundred minus one day so i never have to live without you","c":"disputed","real":"A. A. Milne (falsely credited)","credited":"A. A. Milne","credit":"Attributed to A. A. Milne / Winnie-the-Pooh, but found in none of his books; the exact wording is traced only to a 1999 newspaper, and the idea to a 1917 verse by Tom Phillips.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"May You All Live Forever. May I Live Forever Less A Day,\" January 27, 2020, citing The Rotarian (January 1917) and a Mount Carmel, Illinois newspaper (November 1999).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of A. A. Milne — English playwright, novelist & creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Theme: \"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-live-to-be-a-hundred-i-want-to-live-to-be-a-hundred/"},{"slug":"if-you-love-somebody-let-them-go-for-if-they-return-they","q":"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours","n":"if you love somebody let them go for if they return they were always yours","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown","credited":"Attributed to Kahlil Gibran","credit":"often misattributed to Kahlil Gibran; true author unknown (quotle.info)","cite":"Garson O'Toole, \"Quote Origin: If You Love Someone, Set Them Free. If They Come Back They're Yours,\" Quote Investigator, April 8, 2012, citing Jess Lair, I Ain't Much, Baby—But I'm All I've Got (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972; copyright 1969, 1972).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Unknown — American inspirational saying first documented in 1969. Theme: \"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-love-somebody-let-them-go-for-if-they-return-they/"},{"slug":"if-you-love-something-set-it-free-if-it-comes-back-its","q":"If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours; if it doesn't, it never was","n":"if you love something set it free if it comes back its yours if it doesnt it never was","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (an anonymous saying)","credited":"Kahlil Gibran","credit":"Anonymous — not Kahlil Gibran; first documented 1969–1972 (per Quote Investigator).","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"If You Love Someone, Set Them Free. If They Come Back They're Yours,\" quoteinvestigator.com, April 8, 2012, citing Jess Lair, I Ain't Much, Baby—But I'm All I've Got (1969) and a 1972 Peter Max comic panel.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Kahlil Gibran — Lebanese-American poet, author of The Prophet. Theme: \"If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours; if it doesn't, it never was\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-love-something-set-it-free-if-it-comes-back-its/"},{"slug":"if-you-obey-all-the-rules-you-miss-all-the-fun","q":"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun","n":"if you obey all the rules you miss all the fun","c":"attributed","real":"Katharine Hepburn","credited":"","credit":"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. —attributed to Katharine Hepburn (no verified source)","cite":"No primary source located. Popularly attributed to Katharine Hepburn; earliest documented appearances are in undated online quote databases (BrainyQuote, Goodreads), with AZQuotes attaching an unverified citation to Katharine Hepburn, The Making of The African Queen (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987) — a citation not borne out by the book's text.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Katharine Hepburn — American actress, four-time Academy Award winner. Theme: \"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-obey-all-the-rules-you-miss-all-the-fun/"},{"slug":"if-you-only-knew-the-magnificence-of-the-3-6-and-9-then-you","q":"If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe","n":"if you only knew the magnificence of the 3 6 and 9 then you would have the key to the universe","c":"disputed","real":"Nikola Tesla","credited":"Nikola Tesla","credit":"Unsourced — attributed to Nikola Tesla, but found in none of his works; earliest online traces date only to c. 2009–2010.","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest documented appearances are anonymous online posts c. 2009-2010, per \"Nikola Tesla '369 Theory' — Truth or Fiction?\" TruthOrFiction, accessed 2026.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Nikola Tesla — Serbian-American inventor & electrical engineer. Theme: \"If you only knew the magnificence of the 3, 6 and 9, then you would have the key to the universe\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-only-knew-the-magnificence-of-the-3-6-and-9-then-you/"},{"slug":"if-you-remember-the-60s-you-really-werent-there","q":"If you remember the '60s, you really weren't there","n":"if you remember the 60s you really werent there","c":"disputed","real":"Charles Fleischer","credited":"Robin Williams","credit":"earliest documented use: comedian Charles Fleischer, Los Angeles Times \"Comedy Column,\" 13 June 1982 (per Quote Investigator). Often misattributed to Robin Williams.","cite":"Lawrence Christon, \"The Comedy Column,\" Los Angeles Times, 13 June 1982 (quoting Charles Fleischer) — earliest documented instance per Quote Investigator.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Charles Fleischer — American stand-up comedian, actor & voice of Roger Rabbit. Theme: \"If you remember the '60s, you really weren't there\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-remember-the-60s-you-really-werent-there/"},{"slug":"if-you-want-a-friend-get-a-dog","q":"If you want a friend, get a dog","n":"if you want a friend get a dog","c":"disputed","real":"Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone","credited":"'want' standing in for 'need'","credit":"Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) in Wall Street (1987), written by Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone. Commonly misquoted as \"If you want a friend, get a dog\" — and the saying predates the film by decades: a Philadelphia Inquirer classified ad of 19 November 1911 already read \"IF YOU WANT A FRIEND / Buy a dog.\" Via Quotle.info","cite":"Wall Street, directed by Oliver Stone, screenplay by Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone (20th Century Fox, 1987). Earlier form of the saying documented in \"IF YOU WANT A FRIEND / Buy a dog,\" classified advertisement, Philadelphia Inquirer, 19 November 1911, cited in Barry Popik, \"If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Stanley Weiser and Oliver Stone — shared screenplay credit on Wall Street (1987). Theme: \"If you want a friend, get a dog\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-want-a-friend-get-a-dog/"},{"slug":"if-you-wish-to-be-loved-love","q":"If you wish to be loved, love","n":"if you wish to be loved love","c":"verified","real":"Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)","credited":"Seneca","credit":"If you wish to be loved, love. — Hecato, quoted by Seneca, Moral Letters 9","cite":"Seneca. \"Letter IX.\" In Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), translated by Richard M. Gummere. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1917. Quoting Hecato: 'si vis amari, ama.'","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Seneca the Younger — Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist & statesman. Theme: \"If you wish to be loved, love\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-wish-to-be-loved-love/"},{"slug":"if-you-would-be-a-real-seeker-after-truth-it-is-necessary","q":"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things","n":"if you would be a real seeker after truth it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt as far as possible all things","c":"verified","real":"René Descartes","credited":"","credit":"René Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, Part I, Article 1 (1644). The popular English wording is a common, unattributed translation of the Latin.","cite":"René Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, Part I, Article 1 (1644), trans. John Veitch, in Selections from the Principles of Philosophy (Edinburgh, 1850). The popular English wording is an unattributed modern rendering.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of René Descartes — French philosopher, mathematician, and founder of modern rationalism. Theme: \"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-you-would-be-a-real-seeker-after-truth-it-is-necessary/"},{"slug":"if-youre-going-through-hell-keep-going","q":"If you're going through hell, keep going","n":"if youre going through hell keep going","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown / anonymous origin","credited":"Winston Churchill","credit":"Not said by Winston Churchill — an anonymous saying; earliest documented 1943, origin unknown.","cite":"John Randall Dunn, dialogue in the Christian Science Sentinel (Boston, MA), 30 October 1943 — earliest documented anonymous form; per Quote Investigator, \"If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going\" (2014).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Winston Churchill — British statesman, orator & Nobel laureate in Literature. Theme: \"If you're going through hell, keep going\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-youre-going-through-hell-keep-going/"},{"slug":"if-youre-going-to-be-a-bear-be-a-grizzly","q":"If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly","n":"if youre going to be a bear be a grizzly","c":"disputed","real":"Earliest known use: George Hyde Preston, 1908 (QI unsure if he coined it)","credited":"Mahatma Gandhi","credit":"Misattributed to Mahatma Gandhi. No evidence he said or wrote it; earliest documented use is George Hyde Preston's 1908 story \"An Inside Tip\" in Cosmopolitan. — via Quote Investigator","cite":"George Hyde Preston, \"An Inside Tip,\" Cosmopolitan (1908), as identified in Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Quote Origin: If You Are Going To Be a Bear, Be a Grizzly,\" 8 December 2016.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Mahatma Gandhi — Indian independence leader & apostle of nonviolence. Theme: \"If you're going to be a bear, be a grizzly\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/if-youre-going-to-be-a-bear-be-a-grizzly/"},{"slug":"im-a-great-believer-in-luck-and-i-find-the-harder-i-work","q":"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it","n":"im a great believer in luck and i find the harder i work the more i have of it","c":"disputed","real":"Coleman Cox","credited":"Thomas Jefferson","credit":"Coleman Cox, Listen to This (1922) — not Thomas Jefferson","cite":"Coleman Cox, Listen to This (San Francisco, 1922). Earliest documented attestation per Quote Investigator, \"I'm a Great Believer in Luck. The Harder I Work, the More Luck I Have\" (July 21, 2012).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Coleman Cox — Early-20th-century American epigrammatist and businessman, San Francisco. Theme: \"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/im-a-great-believer-in-luck-and-i-find-the-harder-i-work/"},{"slug":"im-for-whatever-gets-you-through-the-night","q":"I'm for whatever gets you through the night","n":"im for whatever gets you through the night","c":"verified","real":"Frank Sinatra","credited":"","credit":"I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. —Frank Sinatra, Playboy, February 1963","cite":"Frank Sinatra, \"Playboy Interview: Frank Sinatra,\" interview by Joe Hyams, Playboy, February 1963.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Frank Sinatra — American singer, actor and cultural icon. Theme: \"I'm for whatever gets you through the night\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/im-for-whatever-gets-you-through-the-night/"},{"slug":"im-not-young-enough-to-know-everything","q":"I'm not young enough to know everything","n":"im not young enough to know everything","c":"disputed","real":"J. M. Barrie","credited":"Oscar Wilde","credit":"J. M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton (1902), Act I. Often misattributed to Oscar Wilde.","cite":"J. M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton (first staged 1902), Act I. Earliest documented source of the line.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of J. M. Barrie — Scottish novelist & playwright, creator of Peter Pan. Theme: \"I'm not young enough to know everything\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/im-not-young-enough-to-know-everything/"},{"slug":"im-selfish-impatient-and-a-little-insecure-i-make-mistakes","q":"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best","n":"im selfish impatient and a little insecure i make mistakes i am out of control and at times hard to handle but if you cant handle me at my worst then you sure as hell dont deserve me at my best","c":"disputed","real":"Marilyn Monroe","credited":"Marilyn Monroe","credit":"Misattributed to Marilyn Monroe — actual origin unknown. No source connects this line to her (Wikiquote; Snopes).","cite":"\"Marilyn Monroe (Misattributed),\" Wikiquote, accessed 8 July 2026, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe; and \"Did Marilyn Monroe Really Say This?\" Snopes, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/marilyn-monroe-quote/.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Marilyn Monroe — American actress, model & cultural icon. Theme: \"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/im-selfish-impatient-and-a-little-insecure-i-make-mistakes/"},{"slug":"imagination-is-more-important-than-knowledge","q":"Imagination is more important than knowledge","n":"imagination is more important than knowledge","c":"verified","real":"Albert Einstein","credited":"","credit":"— Albert Einstein, interviewed in The Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929","cite":"Viereck, George Sylvester. \"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview with Albert Einstein.\" The Saturday Evening Post, 26 October 1929, p. 17. Reprinted in Einstein, Albert. Cosmic Religion: With Other Opinions and Aphorisms. New York: Covici-Friede, 1931, p. 97.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Albert Einstein — theoretical physicist. Theme: \"Imagination is more important than knowledge\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/imagination-is-more-important-than-knowledge/"},{"slug":"imagine-all-the-people-living-life-in-peace","q":"Imagine all the people living life in peace","n":"imagine all the people living life in peace","c":"verified","real":"John Lennon","credited":"","credit":"John Lennon, \"Imagine\" (1971)","cite":"John Lennon, \"Imagine,\" on Imagine (Apple Records, 1971); co-writing credit to Yoko Ono added by the National Music Publishers Association, 2017.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of John Lennon — English singer-songwriter, co-founder of the Beatles, peace activist. Theme: \"Imagine all the people living life in peace\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/imagine-all-the-people-living-life-in-peace/"},{"slug":"impossible-is-a-word-to-be-found-only-in-the-dictionary-of","q":"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools","n":"impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools","c":"disputed","real":"Napoleon Bonaparte","credited":"Napoleon Bonaparte","credit":"Attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, but a later paraphrase. His documented line was \"impossible n'est pas français\" (letter to General Le Marois, 1813). Source: Quotle.info","cite":"Napoleon Bonaparte to General Jean Le Marois, letter of 9 July 1813 (Magdeburg): \"Ce n'est pas possible… cela n'est pas français\"; popularized in Honoré de Balzac, Maximes et pensées de Napoléon (Paris, 1838). The English \"dictionary of fools\" wording has no documented source.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Napoleon Bonaparte — Emperor of the French & military commander. Theme: \"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/impossible-is-a-word-to-be-found-only-in-the-dictionary-of/"},{"slug":"impossible-is-just-a-big-word-thrown-around-by-small-men","q":"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing","n":"impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world theyve been given than to explore the power they have to change it impossible is not a fact its an opinion impossible is not a declaration its a dare impossible is potential impossible is temporary impossible is nothing","c":"disputed","real":"Aimee Lehto Schewe","credited":"Muhammad Ali","credit":"Aimee Lehto, adidas \"Impossible is Nothing\" campaign manifesto (2004). Not Muhammad Ali, who appeared in the ads but did not write or say the line.","cite":"Lehto, Aimee. adidas \"Impossible is Nothing\" campaign manifesto (advertising copy, written at TBWA\\Chiat\\Day for 180/TBWA), 2004. Earliest documented in an adidas advertisement, Sports Illustrated 100, no. 5 (February 9, 2004), as cited in Quote Investigator, \"Quote Origin: Impossible Is Just a Big Word Thrown Around by Small Men . . . Impossible Is Temporary. Impossible Is Nothing,\" November 28, 2017.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Aimee Lehto Schewe — wrote the adidas \"Impossible is Nothing\" manifesto, 2004. Theme: \"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/impossible-is-just-a-big-word-thrown-around-by-small-men/"},{"slug":"in-any-moment-of-decision-the-best-thing-you-can-do-is-the","q":"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing","n":"in any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing","c":"disputed","real":"Alfred Henry Lewis","credited":"Theodore Roosevelt","credit":"'In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing' is popularly credited to Theodore Roosevelt, but there is no source for it in his works. The earliest documented wording traces to journalist Alfred Henry Lewis, La Follette's Magazine, 28 May 1910. — Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented wording in Alfred Henry Lewis, La Follette's Magazine (28 May 1910), as recorded in Wikiquote, \"Theodore Roosevelt\" (Disputed); the polished modern form is unverified and credited to Roosevelt only from a 1995 U.S. Congressional hearing.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Alfred Henry Lewis — American journalist and novelist. Theme: \"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-any-moment-of-decision-the-best-thing-you-can-do-is-the/"},{"slug":"in-every-walk-with-nature-one-receives-far-more-than-he","q":"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks","n":"in every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks","c":"verified","real":"John Muir","credited":"","credit":"John Muir, \"Mormon Lilies\" (1877), collected in Steep Trails (1918)","cite":"John Muir, \"Mormon Lilies,\" San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin, 19 July 1877; collected in Steep Trails, ch. 9 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Muir — Scottish-American naturalist, writer & conservationist. Theme: \"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-every-walk-with-nature-one-receives-far-more-than-he/"},{"slug":"in-his-will-is-our-peace","q":"In His will is our peace","n":"in his will is our peace","c":"verified","real":"Dante Alighieri","credited":"","credit":"Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto III, line 85 (c. 1316–1321)","cite":"Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, Canto III, line 85, in The Divine Comedy (c. 1316–1321): \"E 'n la sua volontade è nostra pace\" — standard English, \"In His will is our peace.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Dante Alighieri — Florentine poet, author of the Divine Comedy. Theme: \"In His will is our peace\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-his-will-is-our-peace/"},{"slug":"in-individuals-insanity-is-rare-but-in-groups-parties","q":"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule","n":"in individuals insanity is rare but in groups parties nations and epochs it is the rule","c":"verified","real":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credited":"","credit":"Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886), aphorism 156, trans. Helen Zimmern","cite":"Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, trans. Helen Zimmern (1907), Part IV, \"Epigrams and Interludes,\" aphorism 156; German original Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Leipzig: C. G. Naumann, 1886), 156.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Friedrich Nietzsche — German philosopher & classical philologist. Theme: \"In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-individuals-insanity-is-rare-but-in-groups-parties/"},{"slug":"in-order-to-be-irreplaceable-one-must-always-be-different","q":"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different","n":"in order to be irreplaceable one must always be different","c":"verified","real":"Coco Chanel","credited":"","credit":"—Coco Chanel, as recorded in Marcel Haedrich, \"Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets,\" trans. Charles Lam Markmann (1972), p. 255","cite":"Marcel Haedrich, Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1972), 255; translating Coco Chanel: Secrète (Paris: Éditions Robert Laffont, 1971), 308.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Coco Chanel — French couturière, founder of the House of Chanel. Theme: \"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-order-to-be-irreplaceable-one-must-always-be-different/"},{"slug":"in-peace-prepare-for-war-in-war-prepare-for-peace","q":"In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace","n":"in peace prepare for war in war prepare for peace","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (echoes the Roman maxim \"Si vis pacem, para bellum\")","credited":"Sun Tzu","credit":"Anonymous modern maxim, often misattributed to Sun Tzu; echoes the Roman \"Si vis pacem, para bellum\" (Vegetius).","cite":"Earliest documented as misattributed in \"Sun Tzu — Misattributed,\" Wikiquote; underlying maxim from Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus, Epitoma rei militaris (late 4th c. AD). Per Wikiquote, the phrase's earliest Google Books appearance is 1920, without attribution.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Vegetius — Roman military writer. Theme: \"In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-peace-prepare-for-war-in-war-prepare-for-peace/"},{"slug":"in-spite-of-everything-i-still-believe-that-people-are","q":"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart","n":"in spite of everything i still believe that people are really good at heart","c":"verified","real":"Anne Frank","credited":"","credit":"Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (entry of 15 July 1944; trans. B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday, 1952)","cite":"Frank, Anne. The Diary of a Young Girl. Translated by B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday. New York: Doubleday, 1952. Entry of Saturday, 15 July 1944. Originally published as Het Achterhuis (Amsterdam: Contact, 1947).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Anne Frank — German-born Dutch Jewish diarist. Theme: \"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-spite-of-everything-i-still-believe-that-people-are/"},{"slug":"in-the-final-analysis-it-is-between-you-and-god-it-was","q":"In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway","n":"in the final analysis it is between you and god it was never between you and them anyway","c":"disputed","real":"Kent M. Keith (poem) — the coda itself is anonymous","credited":"Mother Teresa","credit":"Not Mother Teresa. This is an anonymous coda (added c. 1995–1999) to Kent M. Keith's 1968 \"Paradoxical Commandments\"; Keith says he did not write these final lines.","cite":"Garson O'Toole, \"Do Good Anyway: The Paradoxical Commandments,\" Quote Investigator, May 18, 2012, quoteinvestigator.com. Underlying poem: Kent M. Keith, \"The Paradoxical Commandments,\" in The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Student Agencies, 1968); the \"final analysis\" coda is an anonymous later addition (c. 1995–1999).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Kent M. Keith — American author & speaker · wrote the \"Paradoxical Commandments\" in 1968. Theme: \"In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-the-final-analysis-it-is-between-you-and-god-it-was/"},{"slug":"in-the-highest-antiquity-the-people-did-not-know-that-there","q":"In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were their rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them. Their work was done and their undertakings were successful, while the people all said, 'We are as we are, of ourselves.'","n":"in the highest antiquity the people did not know that there were their rulers in the next age they loved them and praised them in the next they feared them in the next they despised them their work was done and their undertakings were successful while the people all said we are as we are of ourselves","c":"verified","real":"Lao Tzu","credited":"","credit":"Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, ch. 17, trans. James Legge (1891)","cite":"Lao Tzu, The Tâo Teh King, ch. 17, trans. James Legge, in The Texts of Tâoism, Part I (Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 39; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Lao Tzu — Chinese sage · founder of Taoism · credited author of the Tao Te Ching. Theme: \"In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were their rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them. Their work was done and their undertakings were successful, while the people all said, 'We are as we are, of ourselves.'\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-the-highest-antiquity-the-people-did-not-know-that-there/"},{"slug":"in-the-land-of-the-blind-the-one-eyed-man-is-king","q":"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king","n":"in the land of the blind the one eyed man is king","c":"disputed","real":"Traditional proverb (recorded by Erasmus, 1500)","credited":"Erasmus as originator","credit":"Traditional proverb, recorded in Latin by Erasmus in his Adagia (1500) as \"In regione caecorum rex est luscus\" — he collected and translated it rather than coining it.","cite":"Desiderius Erasmus, Collectanea adagiorum veterum (1500), \"In regione caecorum rex est luscus\"; English proverb a later translation, cf. George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, or Outlandish Proverbs (1640).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Desiderius Erasmus — Dutch Renaissance humanist & compiler of the Adagia. Theme: \"In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-the-land-of-the-blind-the-one-eyed-man-is-king/"},{"slug":"in-the-lexicon-of-youth-there-is-no-such-word-as-fail","q":"In the lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail","n":"in the lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail","c":"verified","real":"Edward Bulwer-Lytton","credited":"","credit":"Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu; or, The Conspiracy (1839), Act III, Scene I","cite":"Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu; or, The Conspiracy (London: Saunders and Otley, 1839), Act III, Scene I.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Edward Bulwer-Lytton — English novelist, playwright & politician. Theme: \"In the lexicon of youth there is no such word as fail\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-the-lexicon-of-youth-there-is-no-such-word-as-fail/"},{"slug":"in-the-middle-of-difficulty-lies-opportunity","q":"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity","n":"in the middle of difficulty lies opportunity","c":"disputed","real":"John Archibald Wheeler","credited":"Albert Einstein","credit":"— John Archibald Wheeler","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"In the Middle of Difficulty Lies Opportunity,\" QuoteInvestigator.com, October 7, 2021, tracing the wording to John Archibald Wheeler, \"The Outsider,\" Newsweek, 1979.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of John Archibald Wheeler — American theoretical physicist. Theme: \"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-the-middle-of-difficulty-lies-opportunity/"},{"slug":"in-the-midst-of-winter-i-found-there-was-within-me-an","q":"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer","n":"in the midst of winter i found there was within me an invincible summer","c":"disputed","real":"Albert Camus","credited":"An anonymous inspirational 'poem'","credit":"— a popular paraphrase, not a published translation and not Camus's wording. Camus wrote the thought in French, at the close of the central section of \"Retour à Tipasa,\" in L'Été (Gallimard, 1954): \"Au milieu de l'hiver, j'apprenais enfin qu'il y avait en moi un été invincible.\" In English that reads \"In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer\" (trans. Justin O'Brien, 1955). The \"midst of winter\" version comes from an anonymous litany circulated as a Camus letter. quotle.info","cite":"Albert Camus, \"Retour à Tipasa,\" in L'Été (Paris: Gallimard, 1954). English: \"Return to Tipasa,\" in The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, trans. Justin O'Brien (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955): \"In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.\" A second standard rendering appears in Lyrical and Critical Essays, ed. Philip Thody, trans. Ellen Conroy Kennedy (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968), 169.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Albert Camus — French-Algerian novelist, essayist & playwright; Nobel Prize in Literature, 1957. Theme: \"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-the-midst-of-winter-i-found-there-was-within-me-an/"},{"slug":"in-the-struggle-for-survival-the-fittest-win-out-at-the","q":"In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment","n":"in the struggle for survival the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment","c":"disputed","real":"Textbook authors of \"Civilization Past and Present\"","credited":"Charles Darwin","credit":"Not said by Charles Darwin. The line first appears as a paraphrase of Darwin's ideas in the textbook \"Civilization Past and Present\" (1962); it was later misattributed to Darwin. Source: Quote Investigator.","cite":"Earliest documented in T. Walter Wallbank, Alastair M. Taylor, and Nels M. Bailkey, \"Civilization Past and Present\" (1962), 578, as the authors' paraphrase of Darwin; see Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"In the Struggle for Survival, the Fittest Win Out at the Expense of Their Rivals,\" December 19, 2014.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Charles Darwin — English naturalist · author of On the Origin of Species. Theme: \"In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-the-struggle-for-survival-the-fittest-win-out-at-the/"},{"slug":"in-the-unlikely-story-that-is-america-there-has-never-been","q":"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope","n":"in the unlikely story that is america there has never been anything false about hope","c":"verified","real":"Barack Obama","credited":"","credit":"Barack Obama, New Hampshire primary night speech, Nashua, New Hampshire, 8 January 2008. Verified at quotle.info","cite":"Barack Obama, \"Remarks of Senator Barack Obama on New Hampshire Primary Night\" (the \"Yes We Can\" speech), Nashua High School South, Nashua, New Hampshire, January 8, 2008.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Barack Obama — 44th U.S. president; U.S. senator from Illinois in January 2008. Theme: \"In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-the-unlikely-story-that-is-america-there-has-never-been/"},{"slug":"in-three-words-i-can-sum-up-everything-i-have-learned-about","q":"In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on","n":"in three words i can sum up everything i have learned about life it goes on","c":"attributed","real":"Robert Frost","credited":"","credit":"Robert Frost — reportedly said in 1954, per journalist Ray Josephs","cite":"Ray Josephs, \"Robert Frost's Secret,\" This Week Magazine, September 5, 1954; reprinted in William Nichols, ed., Words to Live By (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1959), 172–173.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Robert Frost — American poet, four-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Theme: \"In three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life: it goes on\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-three-words-i-can-sum-up-everything-i-have-learned-about/"},{"slug":"in-war-events-of-importance-are-the-result-of-trivial-causes","q":"In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes","n":"in war events of importance are the result of trivial causes","c":"attributed","real":"Julius Caesar","credited":"","credit":"Julius Caesar, The Civil War, Book III, 68 (paraphrased); trans. A. G. Peskett, Loeb, 1914","cite":"Julius Caesar, The Civil War (Bellum Civile), Book III, ch. 68; trans. A. G. Peskett, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1914). The circulating eight-word English is a later condensed variant of this passage.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Julius Caesar — Roman general, statesman & author of the war Commentaries. Theme: \"In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/in-war-events-of-importance-are-the-result-of-trivial-causes/"},{"slug":"injustice-anywhere-is-a-threat-to-justice-everywhere","q":"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere","n":"injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere","c":"verified","real":"Martin Luther King Jr.","credited":"","credit":"Martin Luther King Jr., \"Letter from Birmingham Jail,\" April 16, 1963","cite":"Martin Luther King Jr., \"Letter from Birmingham Jail,\" April 16, 1963, in Why We Can't Wait (New York: Harper & Row, 1964).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Martin Luther King Jr. — Baptist minister & civil-rights leader. Theme: \"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/injustice-anywhere-is-a-threat-to-justice-everywhere/"},{"slug":"innovation-distinguishes-between-a-leader-and-a-follower","q":"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower","n":"innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower","c":"attributed","real":"Steve Jobs","credited":"","credit":"Attributed to Steve Jobs (1955–2011) — widely credited but no primary source has ever been located. — Quotle.info","cite":"Attributed to Steve Jobs; no primary source located. Cf. Brent Schlender, \"The Three Faces of Steve,\" Fortune, November 9, 1998, for Jobs's documented remarks on innovation.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Steve Jobs — co-founder and CEO, Apple. Theme: \"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/innovation-distinguishes-between-a-leader-and-a-follower/"},{"slug":"insanity-is-doing-the-same-thing-over-and-over-again","q":"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results","n":"insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results","c":"disputed","real":"Rita Mae Brown","credited":"Albert Einstein","credit":"— origin anonymous (recovery culture, ~1981); not Einstein","cite":"Brown, Rita Mae. Sudden Death. New York: Bantam Books, 1983, p. 68. On the origin, see Quote Investigator, \"Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again…,\" March 23, 2017.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Rita Mae Brown — b. 1944 · put the line in print in 1983. Theme: \"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/insanity-is-doing-the-same-thing-over-and-over-again/"},{"slug":"integrity-is-doing-the-right-thing-even-when-no-one-is","q":"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching","n":"integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching","c":"disputed","real":"Charles Marshall","credited":"C.S. Lewis","credit":"Nearest documented source: Charles W. Marshall, Shattering the Glass Slipper (2003). Popularly misattributed to C.S. Lewis, who never wrote it.","cite":"Charles W. Marshall, Shattering the Glass Slipper (M Power Resources, 2003) — nearest documented wording; the exact popular phrasing is an anonymous paraphrase not traceable to C.S. Lewis or any single source.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Charles Marshall — American author, motivational speaker & comedian. Theme: \"Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/integrity-is-doing-the-right-thing-even-when-no-one-is/"},{"slug":"intelligence-is-the-ability-to-adapt-to-change","q":"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change","n":"intelligence is the ability to adapt to change","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown; descended from Leon C. Megginson's 1963 Darwin paraphrase","credited":"Stephen Hawking","credit":"widely attributed to Stephen Hawking, but unsourced; a modern paraphrase descended from Leon C. Megginson's 1963 restatement of Darwin.","cite":"Leon C. Megginson, \"Lessons from Europe for American Business,\" Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 44, no. 1 (1963): 3–13 — the documented ancestor of the \"adapt to change\" quote family. No primary source exists for the exact wording attributed to Stephen Hawking.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Leon C. Megginson — American management professor, Louisiana State University. Theme: \"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/intelligence-is-the-ability-to-adapt-to-change/"},{"slug":"intelligence-without-ambition-is-a-bird-without-wings","q":"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings","n":"intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings","c":"disputed","real":"C. Archie Danielson","credited":"","credit":"— C. Archie Danielson","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Intelligence Without Ambition Is a Bird Without Wings,\" October 14, 2015. Earliest appearance: an anonymous 1996 simile variant (\"like a bird without wings\"); exact modern wording first credited to C. Archie Danielson, Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes (1997). Precursor: Walter H. Cottingham, System: The Magazine of Business (December 1908).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of C. Archie Danielson — Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes, 1997. Theme: \"Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/intelligence-without-ambition-is-a-bird-without-wings/"},{"slug":"invention-does-not-consist-in-creating-out-of-void-but-out","q":"Invention does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos","n":"invention does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos","c":"verified","real":"Mary Shelley","credited":"","credit":"Mary Shelley, Introduction to the 1831 edition of Frankenstein","cite":"Shelley, Mary. \"Introduction.\" In Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, rev. ed. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley (Standard Novels), 1831.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Mary Shelley — English novelist, short-story writer & editor. Theme: \"Invention does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/invention-does-not-consist-in-creating-out-of-void-but-out/"},{"slug":"it-aint-what-you-dont-know-that-gets-you-into-trouble-its","q":"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so","n":"it aint what you dont know that gets you into trouble its what you know for sure that just aint so","c":"disputed","real":"Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)","credited":"Ronald Reagan","credit":"Not Ronald Reagan. This exact wording is anonymous; its earliest documented root is Josh Billings (1874): \"I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.\" Reagan said only a related line in 1964. Source: Quote Investigator.","cite":"Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw], Everybody's Friend, Or; Josh Billings's Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor (Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1874) — earliest documented form; the modern wording is anonymous. See \"Quote Origin: It Ain't What You Don't Know That Gets You Into Trouble,\" Quote Investigator, Nov. 18, 2018.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) — American humorist and lecturer. Theme: \"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-aint-what-you-dont-know-that-gets-you-into-trouble-its/"},{"slug":"it-always-seems-impossible-until-its-done","q":"It always seems impossible until it's done","n":"it always seems impossible until its done","c":"disputed","real":"No single author — a proverb Mandela never sourced","credited":"Nelson Mandela","credit":"Proverb of uncertain origin, frequently misattributed to Nelson Mandela; earliest known form in Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia (c. AD 77). Not a documented Mandela quotation.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"It Always Seems Impossible Until It's Done,\" 5 January 2016, quoteinvestigator.com/2016/01/05/done/ — tracing the sentiment to Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia (c. AD 77), with the earliest Mandela attribution in the Illawarra Mercury, 21 April 2001.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Pliny the Elder (earliest source of the idea) — Roman naturalist & author. Theme: \"It always seems impossible until it's done\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-always-seems-impossible-until-its-done/"},{"slug":"it-is-better-to-be-feared-than-loved-if-you-cannot-be-both","q":"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both","n":"it is better to be feared than loved if you cannot be both","c":"verified","real":"Niccolò Machiavelli","credited":"","credit":"Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, Chapter 17 (written c.1513, published 1532). His sentence reads \"it is much more safe to be feared than to be loved, when you have to choose between the two\"; the popular \"if you cannot be both\" is a modern paraphrase.","cite":"Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. Christian E. Detmold, Chapter 17 (\"Of Cruelty and Clemency, and Whether It Is Better to Be Loved Than Feared\"). Written c.1513; first published 1532.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Niccolò Machiavelli — Florentine statesman & political theorist. Theme: \"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-better-to-be-feared-than-loved-if-you-cannot-be-both/"},{"slug":"it-is-better-to-light-a-candle-than-to-curse-the-darkness","q":"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness","n":"it is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness","c":"disputed","real":"William L. Watkinson","credited":"John F. Kennedy","credit":"Earliest documented form: W. L. Watkinson, \"The Supreme Conquest and Other Sermons Preached in America\" (1907) — often misattributed to John F. Kennedy, who only paraphrased it.","cite":"William L. Watkinson, \"The Invincible Strategy,\" in The Supreme Conquest and Other Sermons Preached in America (London: Charles H. Kelly, 1907) — earliest documented instance per Quote Investigator (2017).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William L. Watkinson — English Wesleyan Methodist minister & author. Theme: \"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-better-to-light-a-candle-than-to-curse-the-darkness/"},{"slug":"it-is-easy-to-be-brave-from-a-safe-distance","q":"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance","n":"it is easy to be brave from a safe distance","c":"verified","real":"Aesop","credited":"","credit":"Aesop, \"The Wolf and the Kid,\" trans. Joseph Jacobs (1894)","cite":"Aesop. \"The Wolf and the Kid.\" In The Fables of Æsop, edited and translated by Joseph Jacobs, 40–41. London: Macmillan, 1894.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Aesop — semi-legendary Greek fabulist. Theme: \"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-easy-to-be-brave-from-a-safe-distance/"},{"slug":"it-is-good-to-have-an-end-to-journey-towards-but-it-is-the","q":"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end","n":"it is good to have an end to journey towards but it is the journey that matters in the end","c":"disputed","real":"Ursula K. Le Guin","credited":"Ernest Hemingway","credit":"Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), ch. 15 — often misattributed to Ernest Hemingway.","cite":"Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (New York: Ace Books, 1969), ch. 15.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Ursula K. Le Guin — American novelist of science fiction & fantasy. Theme: \"It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-good-to-have-an-end-to-journey-towards-but-it-is-the/"},{"slug":"it-is-impossible-to-rightly-govern-the-world-without-god","q":"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible","n":"it is impossible to rightly govern the world without god and the bible","c":"disputed","real":"George Washington","credited":"George Washington","credit":"Spurious — not documented in George Washington's writings (Mount Vernon lists it among spurious quotations).","cite":"James Kirke Paulding, A Life of Washington (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1835) — contains a different sentence about governing \"the universe\" without a Supreme Being, never confirmed as Washington's own words.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of George Washington — Continental Army commander & 1st U.S. President. Theme: \"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-impossible-to-rightly-govern-the-world-without-god/"},{"slug":"it-is-much-safer-to-be-feared-than-loved-if-one-of-the-two","q":"It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting","n":"it is much safer to be feared than loved if one of the two has to be wanting","c":"verified","real":"Niccolò Machiavelli","credited":"","credit":"— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, ch. 17 (trans. Luigi Ricci, 1903)","cite":"Niccolò Machiavelli, 'The Prince', ch. 17, trans. Luigi Ricci (London: Oxford University Press, 1903). Original 'Il Principe' written c. 1513, first published 1532.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Niccolò Machiavelli — Florentine political philosopher, diplomat & author of The Prince. Theme: \"It is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-much-safer-to-be-feared-than-loved-if-one-of-the-two/"},{"slug":"it-is-never-too-late-to-be-what-you-might-have-been","q":"It is never too late to be what you might have been","n":"it is never too late to be what you might have been","c":"disputed","real":"Adelaide Anne Procter (probable inspiration)","credited":"George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)","credit":"It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- popularly but falsely attributed to George Eliot","cite":"Quote Investigator. \"Quote Origin: It's Never Too Late To Be What You Might Have Been.\" QuoteInvestigator.com, 24 Nov. 2013, citing Literary News: A Monthly Journal of Current Literature, June 1881, p. 177.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) — English novelist, poet, journalist & translator. Theme: \"It is never too late to be what you might have been\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-never-too-late-to-be-what-you-might-have-been/"},{"slug":"it-is-not-enough-to-have-a-good-mind-the-main-thing-is-to","q":"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well","n":"it is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well","c":"verified","real":"René Descartes","credited":"","credit":"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. —René Descartes, Discourse on the Method (1637)","cite":"René Descartes, Discourse on the Method, Part One (originally Discours de la méthode, Leiden, 1637); popular English wording after John Cottingham and Robert Stoothoff, trans., The Philosophical Writings of Descartes, vol. 1 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985). Original French: \"Car ce n'est pas assez d'avoir l'esprit bon, mais le principal est de l'appliquer bien.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of René Descartes — French philosopher & mathematician, the 'father of modern philosophy'. Theme: \"It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-not-enough-to-have-a-good-mind-the-main-thing-is-to/"},{"slug":"it-is-not-from-the-benevolence-of-the-butcher-the-brewer-or","q":"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner","n":"it is not from the benevolence of the butcher the brewer or the baker that we expect our dinner","c":"verified","real":"Adam Smith","credited":"","credit":"— Adam Smith","cite":"Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London, 1776. Book I, Chapter 2 (\"Of the Principle which gives occasion to the Division of Labour\").","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Adam Smith — Scottish moral philosopher & political economist. Theme: \"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-not-from-the-benevolence-of-the-butcher-the-brewer-or/"},{"slug":"it-is-not-that-we-have-a-short-time-to-live-but-that-we","q":"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it","n":"it is not that we have a short time to live but that we waste much of it","c":"verified","real":"Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)","credited":"","credit":"Seneca, On the Shortness of Life (De Brevitate Vitae), 1.3 — trans. John W. Basore, Loeb Classical Library, 1932. Latin: \"Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus.\"","cite":"Seneca, \"On the Shortness of Life\" (De Brevitate Vitae), 1.3, in Moral Essays, Vol. II, trans. John W. Basore, Loeb Classical Library (London: William Heinemann, 1932). Latin: \"Non exiguum temporis habemus, sed multum perdidimus.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) — Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman & dramatist. Theme: \"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-not-that-we-have-a-short-time-to-live-but-that-we/"},{"slug":"it-is-not-the-strongest-of-the-species-that-survives-nor","q":"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change","n":"it is not the strongest of the species that survives nor the most intelligent that survives it is the one that is most adaptable to change","c":"disputed","real":"Leon C. Megginson (paraphrasing Darwin)","credited":"Charles Darwin","credit":"Not Charles Darwin. This line is a 1963 paraphrase by professor Leon C. Megginson, later restyled and misquoted as Darwin's own words. It does not appear in On the Origin of Species. — Quotle.info","cite":"Leon C. Megginson, \"Lessons from Europe for American Business,\" Southwestern Social Science Quarterly 44, no. 1 (1963): 3–13, at p. 4. Origin traced by Quote Investigator (2014) and the Darwin Correspondence Project.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Leon C. Megginson — American professor of management & marketing, LSU. Theme: \"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-not-the-strongest-of-the-species-that-survives-nor/"},{"slug":"it-is-only-with-the-heart-that-one-can-see-rightly-what-is","q":"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye","n":"it is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye","c":"verified","real":"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry","credited":"","credit":"the fox, in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, trans. Katherine Woods (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943), ch. 21. Verified at quotle.info","cite":"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, trans. Katherine Woods (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943), chap. 21. Originally published as Le Petit Prince (New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry — French aviator, airmail pioneer & writer. Theme: \"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-only-with-the-heart-that-one-can-see-rightly-what-is/"},{"slug":"it-is-the-mark-of-a-truly-intelligent-person-to-be-moved-by","q":"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics","n":"it is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics","c":"disputed","real":"Bertrand Russell","credited":"George Bernard Shaw","credit":"Popularly credited to George Bernard Shaw, but he never wrote it. The idea is Bertrand Russell's, from Education and the Good Life (1926): sympathy that can \"go so far as to enable a man to be moved emotionally by statistics.\" The exact modern wording is a later paraphrase, documented by 1994.","cite":"Bertrand Russell, Education and the Good Life (New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926). The polished popular wording is a later paraphrase, first documented and misattributed to George Bernard Shaw c. 1994; see Quote Investigator (2013).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Bertrand Russell — British philosopher, mathematician & Nobel laureate. Theme: \"It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-the-mark-of-a-truly-intelligent-person-to-be-moved-by/"},{"slug":"it-is-the-mark-of-an-educated-mind-to-entertain-a-thought","q":"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it","n":"it is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it","c":"disputed","real":"No verified author","credited":"Aristotle","credit":"is routinely attributed to Aristotle, but he never wrote it. The line appears nowhere in his works; its earliest known print source is Lowell L. Bennion's \"Religion and the Pursuit of Truth\" (1959), p. 52, where he set it in quotation marks and credited it to Aristotle. Aristotle's genuine \"mark of an educated man\" line (Nicomachean Ethics I.3) is about matching precision to the subject.","cite":"Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 1959), 52 — earliest documented appearance of the line later widely misattributed to Aristotle.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Lowell L. Bennion — educator & sociologist. Theme: \"It is the mark of an educated mind to entertain a thought without accepting it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-is-the-mark-of-an-educated-mind-to-entertain-a-thought/"},{"slug":"it-isnt-the-mountains-ahead-to-climb-that-wear-you-out-its","q":"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe","n":"it isnt the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out its the pebble in your shoe","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous","credited":"Muhammad Ali","credit":"Anonymous saying, earliest printed 1916 (as \"grain of sand in your shoe\"); commonly misattributed to Muhammad Ali. Per Quote Investigator.","cite":"\"It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it is the grain of sand in your shoe.\" Earliest documented in The Western Underwriter (Cincinnati & Chicago), 18 May 1916, p. 10; per Garson O'Toole, Quote Investigator, \"It Isn't the Mountain Ahead That Wears You Out; It Is the Grain of Sand in Your Shoe,\" 23 June 2013.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Muhammad Ali — American heavyweight boxing champion & activist. Theme: \"It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-isnt-the-mountains-ahead-to-climb-that-wear-you-out-its/"},{"slug":"it-matters-not-how-strait-the-gate-how-charged-with","q":"It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll","n":"it matters not how strait the gate how charged with punishments the scroll","c":"verified","real":"William Ernest Henley","credited":"","credit":"William Ernest Henley, \"Invictus,\" in A Book of Verses (1888)","cite":"William Ernest Henley, \"Invictus\" [untitled], in A Book of Verses (London: David Nutt, 1888), \"Life and Death (Echoes)\" sequence.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Ernest Henley — English poet, critic & magazine editor. Theme: \"It matters not how strait the gate, how charged with punishments the scroll\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-matters-not-how-strait-the-gate-how-charged-with/"},{"slug":"it-puts-the-lotion-on-its-skin-or-else-it-gets-the-hose","q":"It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again","n":"it puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again","c":"disputed","real":"Ted Tally","credited":"\"puts the lotion on its skin\"","credit":"Jame \"Buffalo Bill\" Gumb, written by Ted Tally for The Silence of the Lambs (Orion Pictures, 1991), adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel. The line is commonly misquoted as \"It puts the lotion on its skin.\"","cite":"Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs, directed by Jonathan Demme (Strong Heart Productions / Orion Pictures, 1991), adapted from Thomas Harris, The Silence of the Lambs (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Ted Tally — American playwright and screenwriter. Theme: \"It puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose again\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-puts-the-lotion-on-its-skin-or-else-it-gets-the-hose/"},{"slug":"it-takes-a-lot-of-time-to-be-a-genius-you-have-to-sit","q":"It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing","n":"it takes a lot of time to be a genius you have to sit around so much doing nothing","c":"verified","real":"Gertrude Stein","credited":"","credit":"Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography (Random House, 1937), Ch. 2","cite":"Gertrude Stein, Everybody's Autobiography (New York: Random House, 1937), Ch. 2.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Gertrude Stein — American modernist writer, poet & art collector. Theme: \"It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-takes-a-lot-of-time-to-be-a-genius-you-have-to-sit/"},{"slug":"it-takes-two-to-speak-the-truth-one-to-speak-and-another-to","q":"It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear","n":"it takes two to speak the truth one to speak and another to hear","c":"verified","real":"Henry David Thoreau","credited":"","credit":"Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), \"Wednesday\"","cite":"Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1849), \"Wednesday.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, poet, philosopher & naturalist. Theme: \"It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/it-takes-two-to-speak-the-truth-one-to-speak-and-another-to/"},{"slug":"its-easier-to-act-your-way-into-a-new-way-of-thinking-than","q":"It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting","n":"its easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (originator unknown)","credited":"Zig Ziglar","credit":"Anonymous aphorism (originator unknown); exact wording first documented in O. Hobart Mowrer's comment in Critical Incidents in Psychotherapy, 1959, p. 80. Not originated by Zig Ziglar. Per Quote Investigator.","cite":"O. Hobart Mowrer, comment in Stanley W. Standal and Raymond J. Corsini, eds., Critical Incidents in Psychotherapy, chap. 5 (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1959), 80 — earliest documented appearance of this exact wording, presented as an anonymous aphorism. Chronology per Quote Investigator (2021).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Anonymous — originator unknown. Theme: \"It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking than to think your way into a new way of acting\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/its-easier-to-act-your-way-into-a-new-way-of-thinking-than/"},{"slug":"its-easy-to-play-any-musical-instrument-all-you-have-to-do","q":"It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time","n":"its easy to play any musical instrument all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown originator","credited":"Johann Sebastian Bach","credit":"Attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach, but undocumented — no primary source records him saying this, and Bach scholars treat it as an apocryphal modern saying.","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest scholarly discussion: Bradley Lehman and contributors, \"J. S. Bach's Quote\" discussion thread, Bach Cantatas Website, 2004–2005, treating the variant as apocryphal and absent from Hans T. David, Arthur Mendel, and Christoph Wolff, eds., The New Bach Reader (New York: Norton, 1998).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Johann Sebastian Bach — German composer & organist of the Baroque era. Theme: \"It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/its-easy-to-play-any-musical-instrument-all-you-have-to-do/"},{"slug":"its-kind-of-fun-to-do-the-impossible","q":"It's kind of fun to do the impossible","n":"its kind of fun to do the impossible","c":"attributed","real":"Walt Disney","credited":"","credit":"Walt Disney (attributed) — earliest documented citation: Derek Walker, Animated Architecture (1982), p. 10. No primary source located.","cite":"Walt Disney, quoted in Derek Walker, Animated Architecture (London: Architectural Design/Academy Editions, 1982), 10 — earliest documented citation; no primary source located.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Walt Disney — American animator, film producer & co-founder of The Walt Disney Company. Theme: \"It's kind of fun to do the impossible\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/its-kind-of-fun-to-do-the-impossible/"},{"slug":"its-not-the-size-of-the-dog-in-the-fight-its-the-size-of","q":"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog","n":"its not the size of the dog in the fight its the size of the fight in the dog","c":"disputed","real":"Arthur G. Lewis","credited":"Mark Twain","credit":"Earliest documented in Arthur G. Lewis, \"Stub Ends of Thoughts,\" Book of the Royal Blue, April 1911 — not Mark Twain. Original wording: \"It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts, but the fight in the dog that wins.\"","cite":"Arthur G. Lewis, \"Stub Ends of Thoughts,\" Book of the Royal Blue (Baltimore & Ohio Railroad), April 1911. Earliest instance identified by Quote Investigator, \"It's Not the Size of the Dog in the Fight…,\" 20 September 2022.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Arthur G. Lewis — American columnist & railroad passenger agent. Theme: \"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/its-not-the-size-of-the-dog-in-the-fight-its-the-size-of/"},{"slug":"its-not-what-you-look-at-that-matters-its-what-you-see","q":"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see","n":"its not what you look at that matters its what you see","c":"disputed","real":"Henry David Thoreau","credited":"Henry David Thoreau","credit":"is a 1986 paraphrase by biographer Robert D. Richardson Jr. of a line from Thoreau's Journal (5 August 1851): \"The question is not what you look at, but what you see.\" — via Quotle.info","cite":"Robert D. Richardson Jr., Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), 171 — paraphrasing Henry David Thoreau, Journal, 5 August 1851.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, poet & naturalist. Theme: \"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/its-not-what-you-look-at-that-matters-its-what-you-see/"},{"slug":"ive-failed-over-and-over-and-over-again-in-my-life-and-that","q":"I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed","n":"ive failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why i succeed","c":"verified","real":"Michael Jordan","credited":"","credit":"Michael Jordan, voiceover in Nike's \"Failure\" commercial (1997), written by Jamie Barrett; documented in Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh (1998), p. 49.","cite":"Michael Jordan, voiceover in Nike, \"Failure\" (television commercial, 1997), written by Jamie Barrett; as documented in Robert Goldman and Stephen Papson, Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh (London: Sage, 1998), 49.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Michael Jordan — Hall-of-Fame basketball player · Chicago Bulls. Theme: \"I've failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/ive-failed-over-and-over-and-over-again-in-my-life-and-that/"},{"slug":"ive-never-been-hired-by-a-poor-person","q":"I've never been hired by a poor person","n":"ive never been hired by a poor person","c":"disputed","real":"Robert Orben","credited":"Ronald Reagan","credit":"not Ronald Reagan. There is no evidence Reagan ever said it. The earliest known version is a gag by comedy writer Robert Orben, quoted in a 1977 New York Times profile: \"Don't knock the rich. When was the last time you were hired by somebody poor?\" The line was later reshaped by Milton Berle (1989), a painter quoted in The Washington Post (1994) and Phil Gramm (1995). Traced by Quote Investigator, quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/11/hired-by-poor/ — via Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in a 1977 New York Times profile of comedy writer Robert Orben: “Don’t knock the rich. When was the last time you were hired by somebody poor?” Cited and dated per Garson O’Toole, “Quote Origin: I’ve Never Been Hired by a Poor Person,” Quote Investigator, June 11, 2012, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/06/11/hired-by-poor/; and Barry Popik, “I never got a job from a poor person,” barrypopik.com.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Robert Orben — American comedy writer, gag-file publisher, and director of Gerald Ford's White House speechwriting staff. Theme: \"I've never been hired by a poor person\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/ive-never-been-hired-by-a-poor-person/"},{"slug":"judge-a-man-by-his-questions-rather-than-by-his-answers","q":"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers","n":"judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers","c":"disputed","real":"Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis","credited":"Voltaire","credit":"Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis, Maximes et réflexions (1808), Maxim xviii — commonly misattributed to Voltaire.","cite":"Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis, Maximes et réflexions sur différents sujets de morale et de politique (Paris, 1808), Maxim xviii: “Il est encore plus facile de juger de l’esprit d’un homme par ses questions que par ses réponses.” Misattributed to Voltaire.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis — French duke, soldier & aphorist; Académie française. Theme: \"Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/judge-a-man-by-his-questions-rather-than-by-his-answers/"},{"slug":"just-dont-give-up-trying-to-do-what-you-really-want-to-do","q":"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do","n":"just dont give up trying to do what you really want to do","c":"attributed","real":"Ella Fitzgerald","credited":"","credit":"Attributed to Ella Fitzgerald (unverified). No documented primary source has been found for this exact wording. — Quotle.info","cite":"No primary source documented. The line (usually in the fuller two-sentence form) is carried by undated quotation aggregators and also appears, without citation, on the Ella Fitzgerald estate's official site, ellafitzgerald.com.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Ella Fitzgerald — American jazz singer, the \"First Lady of Song\". Theme: \"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/just-dont-give-up-trying-to-do-what-you-really-want-to-do/"},{"slug":"justice-runs-down-like-water-and-righteousness-like-a","q":"Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream","n":"justice runs down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream","c":"disputed","real":"The prophet Amos (Amos 5:24)","credited":"Martin Luther King Jr.","credit":"Amos 5:24 (Hebrew Bible); popularized by Martin Luther King Jr., \"I Have a Dream,\" 1963","cite":"Amos 5:24 (King James Version, 1611); the verse was famously paraphrased by Martin Luther King Jr. in \"I Have a Dream,\" Washington, D.C., 28 August 1963.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Amos — Hebrew prophet & shepherd of Tekoa. Theme: \"Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/justice-runs-down-like-water-and-righteousness-like-a/"},{"slug":"keep-your-face-always-toward-the-sunshine-and-shadows-will","q":"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you","n":"keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (anonymous American proverb)","credited":"M. B. Whitman","credit":"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you. —anonymous proverb, often misattributed to Walt Whitman","cite":"Earliest documented in the Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling, West Virginia), June 5, 1862, p. 4, col. 1, as the anonymous adage “Face the sunshine, and your shadow will fall behind you”; per Garson O’Toole, “Quote Origin: Keep Your Face Always Towards the Sunshine, and the Shadows Will Fall Behind You,” Quote Investigator, March 5, 2019.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Anonymous (American folk proverb) — earliest documented in an 1862 U.S. newspaper. Theme: \"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/keep-your-face-always-toward-the-sunshine-and-shadows-will/"},{"slug":"keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer","q":"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer","n":"keep your friends close and your enemies closer","c":"disputed","real":"Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola","credited":"Sun Tzu","credit":"Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part II (1974), screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola. Commonly misattributed to Sun Tzu; the line appears nowhere in The Art of War, and no source predating the film has been found.","cite":"Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part II, directed by Francis Ford Coppola (Paramount Pictures, 1974). Earliest documented appearance of the line; no published source predating the film has been identified.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola — Coppola b. 1939 · screenwriters, The Godfather Part II (1974). Theme: \"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer/"},{"slug":"kind-words-do-not-cost-much-yet-they-accomplish-much","q":"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much","n":"kind words do not cost much yet they accomplish much","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — a New York Evangelist essayist","credited":"Blaise Pascal","credit":"Not Blaise Pascal. Condensed from the anonymous essay \"Kind Words,\" credited to the New York Evangelist and reprinted 11 March 1847: \"Though they do not cost much, yet they accomplish much.\" Abridged reprints were signed \"Pascal.\" — the likely root of the misattribution. Via Quotle.info","cite":"\"Kind Words.\" New York Evangelist, 1847. Reprinted in Green-Mountain Freeman (Montpelier, VT), March 11, 1847, p. 1. Chronicling America, Library of Congress.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Unknown — a New York Evangelist writer — Anonymous essayist, American religious press. Theme: \"Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/kind-words-do-not-cost-much-yet-they-accomplish-much/"},{"slug":"kindness-in-words-creates-confidence-kindness-in-thinking","q":"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love","n":"kindness in words creates confidence kindness in thinking creates profoundness kindness in giving creates love","c":"disputed","real":"Lao Tzu (misattributed)","credited":"Lao Tzu","credit":"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. —commonly misattributed to Lao Tzu; actually of unknown origin, no earlier than 1977","cite":"Earliest documented in Laurence J. Peter, Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (New York: William Morrow, 1977), 279, attributed to Lao Tzu without source; classified misattributed by Stefan Stenudd, Fake Lao Tzu Quotes, and by Wikiquote (\"Laozi,\" Misattributed).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Lao Tzu (Laozi) — Chinese sage · reputed author of the Tao Te Ching. Theme: \"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/kindness-in-words-creates-confidence-kindness-in-thinking/"},{"slug":"know-thyself","q":"Know thyself","n":"know thyself","c":"disputed","real":"The Delphic maxim (Seven Sages of Greece)","credited":"Socrates","credit":"an ancient Delphic maxim inscribed at the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, traditionally ascribed to the Seven Sages of Greece; popularized by Socrates but not coined by him.","cite":"\"Know thyself,\" Delphic maxim inscribed in the pronaos of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi (attested by the 5th century BC); traditionally ascribed to the Seven Sages of Greece. Cf. Plato, Protagoras 343a-b.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of The Delphic maxims (Seven Sages of Greece) — attested by the 5th century BC · ascribed to the Seven Sages. Theme: \"Know thyself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/know-thyself/"},{"slug":"know-yourself-and-you-will-win-all-battles","q":"Know yourself and you will win all battles","n":"know yourself and you will win all battles","c":"disputed","real":"Sun Tzu","credited":"Sun Tzu (as an exact quote)","credit":"Not a genuine Sun Tzu quote. \"Know yourself and you will win all battles\" is an unsourced paraphrase found on quote sites but in no translation of The Art of War. Sun Tzu's real line (III.18, Giles 1910) is \"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles\" — and he warned that knowing yourself alone means \"for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.\"","cite":"Sun Tzu, The Art of War, trans. Lionel Giles (London: Luzac & Co., 1910), III.18 (\"Attack by Stratagem\"): \"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.\" The shortened form \"Know yourself and you will win all battles\" appears in no translation.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Sun Tzu — Chinese general & military strategist. Theme: \"Know yourself and you will win all battles\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/know-yourself-and-you-will-win-all-battles/"},{"slug":"knowing-is-not-enough-we-must-apply-being-willing-is-not","q":"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do","n":"knowing is not enough we must apply being willing is not enough we must do","c":"disputed","real":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","credited":"Leonardo da Vinci","credit":"widely credited to Leonardo da Vinci, but the line is Goethe's: \"Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun.\" (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, \"Aus Makariens Archiv,\" Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, 1829). Translator of the English wording unknown. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, \"Aus Makariens Archiv,\" in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, oder die Entsagenden, expanded ed. (Stuttgart & Tübingen: Cotta, 1829). German text confirmed at Projekt Gutenberg-DE, Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Kapitel 71. The English wording in circulation has no identified translator; the standard 19th-century English version by Thomas Carlyle does not contain this section.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet, novelist & statesman. Theme: \"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/knowing-is-not-enough-we-must-apply-being-willing-is-not/"},{"slug":"knowing-is-not-enough-we-must-apply-willing-is-not-enough","q":"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do","n":"knowing is not enough we must apply willing is not enough we must do","c":"verified","real":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","credited":"","credit":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, \"Aus Makariens Archiv,\" in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (1829)","cite":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, \"Aus Makariens Archiv,\" in Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (1829); also collected in Maximen und Reflexionen. German: \"Es ist nicht genug, zu wissen, man muß auch anwenden; es ist nicht genug, zu wollen, man muß auch tun.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet, novelist, dramatist & statesman. Theme: \"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/knowing-is-not-enough-we-must-apply-willing-is-not-enough/"},{"slug":"knowledge-itself-is-power","q":"Knowledge itself is power","n":"knowledge itself is power","c":"verified","real":"Francis Bacon","credited":"","credit":"Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacrae (1597) — \"Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est\" (For knowledge itself is power)","cite":"Francis Bacon, \"De Hæresibus,\" Meditationes Sacrae (London, 1597); trans. in James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis & Douglas Denon Heath, eds., The Works of Francis Bacon (London, 1887–1901), 7:253.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Francis Bacon — English philosopher, statesman & father of the scientific method. Theme: \"Knowledge itself is power\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/knowledge-itself-is-power/"},{"slug":"ladies-and-gentlemen-of-the-class-of-97-wear-sunscreen","q":"Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen","n":"ladies and gentlemen of the class of 97 wear sunscreen","c":"disputed","real":"Mary Schmich","credited":"Kurt Vonnegut","credit":"Mary Schmich, \"Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young,\" Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997 — not Kurt Vonnegut.","cite":"Mary Schmich, \"Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young,\" Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1997.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Mary Schmich — Chicago Tribune columnist & 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Theme: \"Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/ladies-and-gentlemen-of-the-class-of-97-wear-sunscreen/"},{"slug":"laughter-is-an-instant-vacation","q":"Laughter is an instant vacation","n":"laughter is an instant vacation","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (popularized by Milton Berle)","credited":"Milton Berle","credit":"Laughter is an instant vacation. —commonly credited to Milton Berle, but the saying predates him (in print by 1968) and Quote Investigator judges its origin anonymous.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Laughter Is an Instant Vacation,\" QuoteInvestigator.com, November 25, 2014, tracing the saying to the Pennsylvania School Journal (1968) and newspaper printings (1976), before the earliest Milton Berle ascription (1977).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Milton Berle — American comedian, \"Mr. Television\". Theme: \"Laughter is an instant vacation\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/laughter-is-an-instant-vacation/"},{"slug":"laughter-is-timeless-imagination-has-no-age-and-dreams-are","q":"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever","n":"laughter is timeless imagination has no age and dreams are forever","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (falsely credited to Walt Disney)","credited":"Walt Disney","credit":"Misattributed to Walt Disney — no documented source; true author unknown","cite":"Earliest documented as misattributed: \"Walt Disney,\" Wikiquote, Misattributed section (no primary source); see also Matt Novak, \"8 Walt Disney Quotes That Are Actually Fake,\" Gizmodo, 2015.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Walt Disney — American animation pioneer & co-founder of The Walt Disney Company. Theme: \"Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, and dreams are forever\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/laughter-is-timeless-imagination-has-no-age-and-dreams-are/"},{"slug":"lead-on-macduff","q":"Lead on, Macduff","n":"lead on macduff","c":"disputed","real":"William Shakespeare","credited":"A folk corruption of Shakespeare","credit":"Shakespeare actually wrote \"Lay on, Macduff, / And damned be him that first cries 'Hold! Enough!'\" — Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 8 (First Folio, 1623). \"Lead on, Macduff\" is a later misquotation.","cite":"William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 8, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (London: Isaac Jaggard & Ed. Blount, 1623); text as in the Folger Shakespeare edition.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Shakespeare — English playwright & poet. Theme: \"Lead on, Macduff\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/lead-on-macduff/"},{"slug":"learning-without-thought-is-labour-lost-thought-without","q":"Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous","n":"learning without thought is labour lost thought without learning is perilous","c":"verified","real":"Confucius","credited":"","credit":"Confucius, Analects 2.15 (trans. James Legge, 1861)","cite":"Confucius. The Chinese Classics, Vol. I: Confucian Analects, the Great Learning, and the Doctrine of the Mean. Translated by James Legge. Hong Kong: Legge; London: Trübner, 1861. Book 2 (Wei Zheng), verse 15.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Confucius — Chinese philosopher, teacher & founder of the Confucian tradition. Theme: \"Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/learning-without-thought-is-labour-lost-thought-without/"},{"slug":"let-them-eat-cake","q":"Let them eat cake","n":"let them eat cake","c":"disputed","real":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","credited":"Marie Antoinette","credit":"first recorded in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, Book VI (written 1765, published 1782), attributed to an unnamed \"great princess.\" Not said by Marie Antoinette.","cite":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions, Book VI (written 1765; first published Geneva, 1782). Original French: \"Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.\" Attributed to an unnamed \"grande princesse.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Genevan philosopher & writer. Theme: \"Let them eat cake\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/let-them-eat-cake/"},{"slug":"life-can-only-be-understood-backwards-but-it-must-be-lived","q":"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards","n":"life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards","c":"attributed","real":"Søren Kierkegaard","credited":"","credit":"Søren Kierkegaard, journal, 1843 (popular paraphrase; his actual line, trans. Alexander Dru: \"life must be understood backwards … it must be lived forwards\")","cite":"Søren Kierkegaard, journal entry JJ:167 (1843), in Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter, vol. 18, p. 306; trans. Alexander Dru, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard (London: Oxford University Press, 1938), no. 465. Popular one-line form is a later condensed paraphrase.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Søren Kierkegaard — Danish philosopher, theologian & father of existentialism. Theme: \"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/life-can-only-be-understood-backwards-but-it-must-be-lived/"},{"slug":"life-is-a-journey-not-a-destination","q":"Life is a journey, not a destination","n":"life is a journey not a destination","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — anonymous modern proverb","credited":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credit":"is an anonymous modern proverb documented by 1920 — not a line Ralph Waldo Emerson ever wrote. Source: Quote Investigator (2012).","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Life Is a Journey, Not a Destination,\" 31 August 2012, quoteinvestigator.com. Earliest documented form: Lynn H. Hough, The Christian Advocate (1920).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Ralph Waldo Emerson — American essayist, lecturer & poet. Theme: \"Life is a journey, not a destination\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/life-is-a-journey-not-a-destination/"},{"slug":"life-is-a-series-of-natural-and-spontaneous-changes-dont","q":"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality","n":"life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes dont resist them that only creates sorrow let reality be reality","c":"disputed","real":"Vernon Howard","credited":"Lao Tzu","credit":"Misattributed to Lao Tzu. Actually written by Vernon Howard in The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power (1967) as his own explanation of Taoism; it is not in the Tao Te Ching.","cite":"Vernon Howard, The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power (West Nyack, NY: Parker Publishing Company, 1967), 112. Misattribution traced by Stefan Stenudd, \"Fake Lao Tzu Quote,\" Taoistic.com; also listed as Misattributed on Wikiquote's Laozi page.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Vernon Howard — American spiritual teacher & self-help author. Theme: \"Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/life-is-a-series-of-natural-and-spontaneous-changes-dont/"},{"slug":"life-is-always-a-tightrope-or-a-feather-bed-give-me-the","q":"Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope","n":"life is always a tightrope or a feather bed give me the tightrope","c":"attributed","real":"Edith Wharton","credited":"","credit":"Edith Wharton (attributed)","cite":"Wikiquote contributors, \"Edith Wharton,\" Wikiquote, entry citing an undated \"Journal entry (March 1926),\" accessed 8 July 2026, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edith_Wharton — no corroborating published edition of Wharton's diaries or letters has been located.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Edith Wharton — American novelist & short-story writer. Theme: \"Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/life-is-always-a-tightrope-or-a-feather-bed-give-me-the/"},{"slug":"life-is-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-youre","q":"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get","n":"life is like a box of chocolates you never know what youre gonna get","c":"disputed","real":"Eric Roth","credited":"\"Life is like a box of chocolates\"","credit":"Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks), written by Eric Roth, Forrest Gump (1994)","cite":"Eric Roth, Forrest Gump, screenplay, based on the novel by Winston Groom. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Paramount Pictures, 1994. Dialogue as transcribed at Wikiquote; the line is ranked #40 on AFI's 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes (2005).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Eric Roth — American screenwriter. Theme: \"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/life-is-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-youre/"},{"slug":"life-is-like-riding-a-bicycle-to-keep-your-balance-you-must","q":"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving","n":"life is like riding a bicycle to keep your balance you must keep moving","c":"verified","real":"Albert Einstein","credited":"","credit":"— Albert Einstein, letter to his son Eduard, 5 February 1930","cite":"Albert Einstein to Eduard Einstein, 5 February 1930, Einstein Archives 75-990; quoted in Walter Isaacson, Einstein: His Life and Universe (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007), 367.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Albert Einstein — theoretical physicist. Theme: \"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/life-is-like-riding-a-bicycle-to-keep-your-balance-you-must/"},{"slug":"life-is-pretty-simple-you-do-some-stuff-most-fails-some","q":"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else","n":"life is pretty simple you do some stuff most fails some works you do more of what works if it works big others quickly copy it then you do something else the trick is the doing something else","c":"disputed","real":"Tom Peters","credited":"Leonardo da Vinci","credit":"Tom Peters, \"The Best Corporate Strategy? None, Of Course,\" Chicago Tribune, 11 July 1994 — not Leonardo da Vinci.","cite":"Tom Peters, \"The Best Corporate Strategy? None, Of Course,\" Chicago Tribune, 11 July 1994. Documented in Wikiquote's sourced entry for Tom Peters.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Tom Peters — American management writer & co-author of In Search of Excellence. Theme: \"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/life-is-pretty-simple-you-do-some-stuff-most-fails-some/"},{"slug":"life-is-really-simple-but-we-insist-on-making-it-complicated","q":"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated","n":"life is really simple but we insist on making it complicated","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (falsely credited to Confucius)","credited":"Confucius","credit":"Unknown author, popularly (and wrongly) attributed to Confucius. The line appears in no classical Chinese text; its earliest known print trace is Aero Digest (1949).","cite":"\"Confucius (Misattributed — Not Chinese),\" Wikiquote, noting earliest print in Aero Digest, Vols. 58–59 (1949), p. 115. No classical Confucian source contains the line.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Confucius — Chinese philosopher & teacher, subject of the Analects. Theme: \"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/life-is-really-simple-but-we-insist-on-making-it-complicated/"},{"slug":"life-is-what-happens-when-youre-busy-making-other-plans","q":"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans","n":"life is what happens when youre busy making other plans","c":"disputed","real":"Allen Saunders","credited":"John Lennon","credit":"Not a John Lennon original. Lennon sang \"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans\" in \"Beautiful Boy\" (1980), but the saying was credited to cartoonist Allen Saunders in Reader's Digest in January 1957. — via Quotle.info","cite":"\"Quotable Quotes,\" Reader's Digest, January 1957, crediting Allen Saunders (\"Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans\"); earliest partial in Allen Saunders, \"Mary Worth\" comic strip, 2 September 1956; popularized by John Lennon, \"Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy),\" Double Fantasy (Geffen, 1980). Origin traced by Quote Investigator, 6 May 2012.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Allen Saunders — American cartoonist & writer — Mary Worth, Steve Roper, Kerry Drake. Theme: \"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/life-is-what-happens-when-youre-busy-making-other-plans/"},{"slug":"live-a-good-life-if-there-are-gods-and-they-are-just-then","q":"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones","n":"live a good life if there are gods and they are just then they will not care how devout you have been but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by if there are gods but unjust then you should not want to worship them if there are no gods then you will be gone but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (a modern internet-era author)","credited":"Marcus Aurelius","credit":"Attributed to Marcus Aurelius, but this exact wording appears nowhere in his Meditations or any ancient source — it is a modern internet-era fabrication that reverses his genuine words in Meditations 2.11.","cite":"The genuine echo is Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.11, trans. George Long (London: 1862); the popular \"Live a good life…\" wording has no documented source in Marcus Aurelius or any ancient text and appears to originate online in the 2000s.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/live-a-good-life-if-there-are-gods-and-they-are-just-then/"},{"slug":"live-as-if-you-were-to-die-tomorrow-learn-as-if-you-were-to","q":"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever","n":"live as if you were to die tomorrow learn as if you were to live forever","c":"disputed","real":"St Edmund of Abingdon (traditionally)","credited":"Mahatma Gandhi","credit":"not Gandhi. Earliest documented as the maxim of St Edmund of Abingdon (c. 1174–1240) in [Augusta Theodosia Drane], Christian Schools and Scholars, vol. 2 (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1867), p. 147 — two years before Gandhi was born.","cite":"[Augusta Theodosia Drane], Christian Schools and Scholars: or, Sketches of Education from the Christian Era to the Council of Trent, 2 vols. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1867), 2:147. Earliest documented appearance located; published anonymously as \"by the author of 'The Three Chancellors.'\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of St Edmund of Abingdon — Oxford teacher & Archbishop of Canterbury. Theme: \"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/live-as-if-you-were-to-die-tomorrow-learn-as-if-you-were-to/"},{"slug":"lock-up-your-libraries-if-you-like-but-there-is-no-gate-no","q":"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind","n":"lock up your libraries if you like but there is no gate no lock no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind","c":"verified","real":"Virginia Woolf","credited":"","credit":"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. —Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)","cite":"Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. London: Hogarth Press, 1929, Chapter IV.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Virginia Woolf — English novelist & essayist. Theme: \"Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/lock-up-your-libraries-if-you-like-but-there-is-no-gate-no/"},{"slug":"lots-of-people-talk-to-animals-not-very-many-listen-though","q":"Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen, though","n":"lots of people talk to animals not very many listen though","c":"disputed","real":"Benjamin Hoff","credited":"A. A. Milne","credit":"Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh (1982) — often misattributed to A. A. Milne","cite":"Benjamin Hoff, \"The Tao of Pooh\" (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1982), 29.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Benjamin Hoff — American author of The Tao of Pooh (1982). Theme: \"Lots of people talk to animals. Not very many listen, though\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/lots-of-people-talk-to-animals-not-very-many-listen-though/"},{"slug":"love-all-trust-a-few-do-wrong-to-none","q":"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none","n":"love all trust a few do wrong to none","c":"verified","real":"William Shakespeare","credited":"","credit":"— William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act 1, Scene 1 (First Folio, 1623)","cite":"William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act 1, Scene 1, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (London: 1623), the First Folio.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Shakespeare — English playwright & poet. Theme: \"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/love-all-trust-a-few-do-wrong-to-none/"},{"slug":"love-built-on-beauty-soon-as-beauty-dies","q":"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies","n":"love built on beauty soon as beauty dies","c":"verified","real":"John Donne","credited":"","credit":"John Donne, \"The Anagram\" (Elegy II), first printed in Poems, 1633","cite":"Donne, John. \"Elegy II: The Anagram,\" line 27, in The Elegies and the Songs and Sonnets of John Donne, ed. Helen Gardner (London: Oxford University Press, 1965), 19–20; first printed in Donne, Poems (London, 1633).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Donne — English metaphysical poet & cleric, Dean of St Paul's. Theme: \"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/love-built-on-beauty-soon-as-beauty-dies/"},{"slug":"love-makes-your-soul-crawl-out-from-its-hiding-place","q":"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place","n":"love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place","c":"disputed","real":"Zora Neale Hurston","credited":"Zora Neale Hurston","credit":"Paraphrased from Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), ch. 13 — she wrote \"So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.\"","cite":"Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1937), ch. 13: \"…felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Zora Neale Hurston — Harlem Renaissance novelist, folklorist & anthropologist. Theme: \"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/love-makes-your-soul-crawl-out-from-its-hiding-place/"},{"slug":"luck-is-what-happens-when-preparation-meets-opportunity","q":"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity","n":"luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (early-20th-century American saying)","credited":"Seneca the Younger","credit":"is not Seneca. It's an anonymous American proverb in print by 1912, with its modern wording anonymous by 1928; the Seneca credit only appears in 1999. — Quotle.info","cite":"\"Luck is the point where preparation meets opportunity.\" The Youth's Companion, Vol. 86 (Boston: Perry Mason Co., 1912), 222 — unattributed; exact modern wording anonymous in U.S. print by 1928.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Anonymous — American self-help aphorism. Theme: \"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/luck-is-what-happens-when-preparation-meets-opportunity/"},{"slug":"luke-i-am-your-father","q":"Luke, I am your father","n":"luke i am your father","c":"disputed","real":"Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasdan","credited":"\"Luke, I am your father\"","credit":"Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones) in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, story by George Lucas. The popular \"Luke, I am your father\" is never spoken in the film.","cite":"Irvin Kershner, dir. The Empire Strikes Back. Screenplay by Leigh Brackett and Lawrence Kasdan, story by George Lucas. Lucasfilm Ltd. / Twentieth Century-Fox, released 21 May 1980. Dialogue as transcribed at Wikiquote.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Leigh Brackett & Lawrence Kasdan — story by George Lucas. Theme: \"Luke, I am your father\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/luke-i-am-your-father/"},{"slug":"man-because-he-sacrifices-his-health-in-order-to-make-money","q":"Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived","n":"man because he sacrifices his health in order to make money then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health and then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present the result being that he does not live in the present or the future he lives as if he is never going to die and then dies having never really lived","c":"disputed","real":"James J. Lachard (pen name of Jim Brown)","credited":"Dalai Lama","credit":"Not the Dalai Lama. The line is an expanded paraphrase of \"I Dreamed I Had an Interview with God\" by James J. Lachard (pen name of Jim Brown), published as \"An Interview with God\" (ed. Reata Strickland, Simon & Schuster, 2002). Wikiquote lists it among the Dalai Lama's misattributed quotes.","cite":"James J. Lachard [Jim Brown], \"I Dreamed I Had an Interview with God,\" in An Interview with God, ed. Reata Strickland (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002). Misattribution documented at Wikiquote, \"Dalai Lama (Misattributed).\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of James J. Lachard (Jim Brown) — pen name of Jim Brown · author of \"An Interview with God\". Theme: \"Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/man-because-he-sacrifices-his-health-in-order-to-make-money/"},{"slug":"man-is-born-free-and-everywhere-he-is-in-chains","q":"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains","n":"man is born free and everywhere he is in chains","c":"verified","real":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","credited":"","credit":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (Du contrat social), Book I, ch. 1, 1762 — trans. G. D. H. Cole, 1913","cite":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Du contrat social (Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey, 1762), Book I, ch. 1; trans. G. D. H. Cole, The Social Contract and Discourses (London: J. M. Dent, 1913).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Genevan philosopher, writer & composer of the Enlightenment. Theme: \"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/man-is-born-free-and-everywhere-he-is-in-chains/"},{"slug":"man-is-certainly-stark-mad-he-cannot-make-a-worm-and-yet-he","q":"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens","n":"man is certainly stark mad he cannot make a worm and yet he will be making gods by dozens","c":"verified","real":"Michel de Montaigne","credited":"","credit":"Michel de Montaigne, \"An Apology for Raymond Sebond,\" Essays, Book II, Ch. 12 (1580), trans. Charles Cotton","cite":"Michel de Montaigne, \"An Apology for Raymond Sebond,\" in Essays, Book II, Ch. 12 (1580), trans. Charles Cotton, rev. W. C. Hazlitt (1877).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Michel de Montaigne — French Renaissance philosopher & inventor of the essay. Theme: \"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/man-is-certainly-stark-mad-he-cannot-make-a-worm-and-yet-he/"},{"slug":"man-is-condemned-to-be-free","q":"Man is condemned to be free","n":"man is condemned to be free","c":"verified","real":"Jean-Paul Sartre","credited":"","credit":"Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism (lecture 1945, published 1946), trans. Philip Mairet, 1948","cite":"Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism and Humanism, trans. Philip Mairet (London: Methuen, 1948); originally L'existentialisme est un humanisme (Paris: Éditions Nagel, 1946), from the lecture delivered 29 October 1945.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Jean-Paul Sartre — French existentialist philosopher, playwright & novelist. Theme: \"Man is condemned to be free\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/man-is-condemned-to-be-free/"},{"slug":"many-of-lifes-failures-are-people-who-did-not-realize-how","q":"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up","n":"many of lifes failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up","c":"attributed","real":"Thomas Edison","credited":"","credit":"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. — attributed to Thomas Edison (no primary source; earliest citation 2007)","cite":"Earliest documented citation: Deborah Hedstrom-Page, From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison (Nashville: B&H Publishing, 2007), 22 — which asserts an 1877 date without evidence. No source from Edison's lifetime is known.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Edison — American inventor & businessman. Theme: \"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/many-of-lifes-failures-are-people-who-did-not-realize-how/"},{"slug":"marconi-is-a-good-fellow-let-him-continue-he-is-using","q":"Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents","n":"marconi is a good fellow let him continue he is using seventeen of my patents","c":"attributed","real":"Nikola Tesla","credited":"Nikola Tesla","credit":"attributed to Nikola Tesla, December 1901, as recalled by Wardenclyffe engineer H. Otis Pond. Earliest documented in Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time (1981), p. 161, citing a July 1972 Seattle Sunday Times column. No contemporaneous source is known.","cite":"Earliest documented in Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time (1981; repr. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993), 161, citing Don Duncan, \"Driftwood Days,\" Seattle Sunday Times, July 1972. No contemporaneous 1901 source is known.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Nikola Tesla — Serbian-American inventor & electrical engineer. Theme: \"Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/marconi-is-a-good-fellow-let-him-continue-he-is-using/"},{"slug":"may-love-be-your-guide-in-every-moment-of-your-life","q":"May love be your guide in every moment of your life","n":"may love be your guide in every moment of your life","c":"disputed","real":"Paulo Coelho (credited, but unverified)","credited":"Paulo Coelho","credit":"Attribution unverified — widely credited to Paulo Coelho, but the line appears in none of his known works and Wikiquote lists it as misattributed.","cite":"\"Paulo Coelho: Misattributed,\" Wikiquote, accessed 10 July 2026, https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Paulo_Coelho. No primary source in Coelho's published works has been located for this wording.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Paulo Coelho — Brazilian novelist · author of The Alchemist. Theme: \"May love be your guide in every moment of your life\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/may-love-be-your-guide-in-every-moment-of-your-life/"},{"slug":"methinks-the-lady-doth-protest-too-much","q":"Methinks the lady doth protest too much","n":"methinks the lady doth protest too much","c":"disputed","real":"William Shakespeare","credited":"\"Methinks the lady…\"","credit":"Misquote of William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2. The original line, spoken by Queen Gertrude, is \"The lady doth protest too much, methinks.\"","cite":"William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 2 (c. 1600–1601; first printed 1603–1623). Standard reading: \"The lady doth protest too much, methinks.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Shakespeare — English playwright & poet. Theme: \"Methinks the lady doth protest too much\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/methinks-the-lady-doth-protest-too-much/"},{"slug":"millions-of-people-who-have-never-died-before-will-be-killed","q":"Millions of people who have never died before will be killed","n":"millions of people who have never died before will be killed","c":"disputed","real":"Ernest Hemingway","credited":"Donald Trump","credit":"Ernest Hemingway, letter to Henry Strater, 1930, quoting his friend Edward \"Bra\" Saunders. The popular version, \"Millions of people who have never died before will be killed,\" is not what Hemingway wrote, and it is not from any film.","cite":"Ernest Hemingway to Henry Strater, 1930, quoting Edward \"Bra\" Saunders: \"He advised us all to be careful as men are dying this year who have never died before.\" Earliest documented use as reported by AFP on the authority of Sandra Spanier, General Editor, The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway (Cambridge University Press), whose Volume 4 covers 1929–1931. Exact edition and page of the letter not independently verified.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Ernest Hemingway — American novelist, short-story writer & journalist. Theme: \"Millions of people who have never died before will be killed\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/millions-of-people-who-have-never-died-before-will-be-killed/"},{"slug":"mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-whos-the-fairest-of-them-all","q":"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?","n":"mirror mirror on the wall whos the fairest of them all","c":"disputed","real":"Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm (the Brothers Grimm)","credited":"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Walt Disney Productions, 1937)","credit":"Disney's 1937 \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\" actually says: \"Magic Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?\" The \"Mirror, mirror\" wording is the Brothers Grimm's rhyme — \"Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand\" — from Kinder- und Haus-Märchen no. 53, \"Sneewittchen\" (1812), usually rendered \"Mirror, mirror, on the wall, / Who in this land is fairest of all?\" Neither text says \"of them all.\"","cite":"Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. \"Sneewittchen (Schneeweißchen).\" In Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, vol. 1, no. 53. Berlin: Realschulbuchhandlung, 1812; final (7th) edition, Berlin, 1857. English renderings quoted: Margaret Hunt, trans., Grimm's Household Tales (London: George Bell and Sons, 1884), and D. L. Ashliman, trans., \"Little Snow-White,\" Folktexts ( 2002–2005). Film adaptation: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, supervising dir. David Hand, story adaptation by Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank and Webb Smith (Walt Disney Productions; dist. RKO Radio Pictures), premiered 21 December 1937.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm — Wilhelm 1786–1859 · German philologists & folklorists. Theme: \"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-whos-the-fairest-of-them-all/"},{"slug":"mistakes-are-the-portals-of-discovery","q":"Mistakes are the portals of discovery","n":"mistakes are the portals of discovery","c":"disputed","real":"James Joyce","credited":"Popular internet quote culture","credit":"James Joyce, Ulysses (paraphrased)","cite":"Joyce, James. Ulysses. Paris: Sylvia Beach, 1922. Episode 9, \"Scylla and Charybdis\" (spoken by Stephen Dedalus).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of James Joyce — Irish novelist & poet. Theme: \"Mistakes are the portals of discovery\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/mistakes-are-the-portals-of-discovery/"},{"slug":"money-is-the-root-of-all-evil","q":"Money is the root of all evil","n":"money is the root of all evil","c":"disputed","real":"The Bible (1 Timothy 6:10) — paraphrased","credited":"The Bible (1 Timothy 6:10)","credit":"Misquote of the Bible, 1 Timothy 6:10. The verse (KJV) says \"the love of money is the root of all evil\" — not money itself.","cite":"The Bible. 1 Timothy 6:10. King James Version (London, 1611); Koine Greek: ἡ ί (hē philargyria), 'the love of money.'","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Paul the Apostle — Apostle & letter-writer of the early Church. Theme: \"Money is the root of all evil\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/money-is-the-root-of-all-evil/"},{"slug":"most-men-lead-lives-of-quiet-desperation-and-go-to-the","q":"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them","n":"most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them","c":"disputed","real":"Henry David Thoreau & Oliver Wendell Holmes","credited":"Henry David Thoreau","credit":"Misattributed. Thoreau wrote only \"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation\" (Walden, 1854); the \"song in the grave\" coda echoes Oliver Wendell Holmes' poem \"The Voiceless\" (1858).","cite":"Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), \"Economy\": \"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.\" The added coda echoes Oliver Wendell Holmes, \"The Voiceless\" (1858).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, naturalist & Transcendentalist. Theme: \"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/most-men-lead-lives-of-quiet-desperation-and-go-to-the/"},{"slug":"most-of-the-evil-in-this-world-is-done-by-people-with-good","q":"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions","n":"most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions","c":"disputed","real":"C.S. Lewis (credited, but did not write it)","credited":"C.S. Lewis","credit":"Anonymous adage (earliest match traced to 1914); often misattributed to C.S. Lewis and T.S. Eliot","cite":"Garson O'Toole [Gregory F. Sullivan], \"Most of the Evil in This World Is Done by People with Good Intentions,\" Quote Investigator, December 19, 2019. Earliest match: anonymous item in The Creamery and Milk Plant Monthly (November 1914).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of C.S. Lewis — British writer, scholar and Christian apologist. Theme: \"Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/most-of-the-evil-in-this-world-is-done-by-people-with-good/"},{"slug":"most-people-are-not-seeking-truth-they-are-searching-for","q":"Most people are not seeking truth; they are searching for comfort in illusions","n":"most people are not seeking truth they are searching for comfort in illusions","c":"disputed","real":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credited":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credit":"Attributed to Friedrich Nietzsche, but found in none of his works — a modern paraphrase. Nietzsche's genuine 1865 line: \"if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.\"","cite":"Earliest genuine cognate: Friedrich Nietzsche to Elisabeth Nietzsche, Bonn, 11 June 1865, in Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche. The exact circulating wording is undocumented in Nietzsche's corpus and is listed as misattributed on Wikiquote.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Friedrich Nietzsche — German philosopher & classical philologist. Theme: \"Most people are not seeking truth; they are searching for comfort in illusions\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/most-people-are-not-seeking-truth-they-are-searching-for/"},{"slug":"much-learning-does-not-teach-understanding","q":"Much learning does not teach understanding","n":"much learning does not teach understanding","c":"verified","real":"Heraclitus","credited":"","credit":"Heraclitus, fragment B40, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 9.1 (trans. R. D. Hicks, Loeb Classical Library, 1925)","cite":"Diogenes Laertius. Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, Book IX.1 (Heraclitus). Translated by R. D. Hicks. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1925. (Fragment = Diels–Kranz 22 B40.)","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Heraclitus — Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Ephesus. Theme: \"Much learning does not teach understanding\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/much-learning-does-not-teach-understanding/"},{"slug":"music-is-a-moral-law-it-gives-soul-to-the-universe-wings-to","q":"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything","n":"music is a moral law it gives soul to the universe wings to the mind flight to the imagination and charm and gaiety to life and to everything","c":"disputed","real":"Falsely credited to Plato; earliest documented in Sir John Lubbock (1889)","credited":"Plato","credit":"Not Plato. Earliest documented in Sir John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life, Part II (1889), p. 120, where it is credited to Plato without a source. No such passage exists in Plato's works. — Quotle.info","cite":"John Lubbock. The Pleasures of Life, Part II. London and New York: Macmillan, 1889, p. 120 (epigraph to ch. VII, 'Music') — where the line is first credited to Plato. Not found in any work of Plato.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Sir John Lubbock (Lord Avebury) — English banker, biologist, MP & popular essayist. Theme: \"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/music-is-a-moral-law-it-gives-soul-to-the-universe-wings-to/"},{"slug":"music-soothes-the-savage-beast","q":"Music soothes the savage beast","n":"music soothes the savage beast","c":"disputed","real":"William Congreve","credited":"\"the savage beast\"","credit":"— William Congreve","cite":"William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (London: Jacob Tonson, 1697), Act I, Scene I.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Congreve — English Restoration playwright & poet. Theme: \"Music soothes the savage beast\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/music-soothes-the-savage-beast/"},{"slug":"musicians-dont-retire-they-stop-when-theres-no-more-music","q":"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them","n":"musicians dont retire they stop when theres no more music in them","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — not documented as Louis Armstrong","credited":"Louis Armstrong","credit":"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — attributed to Louis Armstrong (no documented source; origin unknown)","cite":"No primary source located. Widely attributed to Louis Armstrong on quote-aggregator sites (e.g., BrainyQuote, Goodreads) without citation; absent from Wikiquote's sourced, reputed, and misattributed Armstrong quotes.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Louis Armstrong — American jazz trumpeter & vocalist · New Orleans. Theme: \"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/musicians-dont-retire-they-stop-when-theres-no-more-music/"},{"slug":"my-best-friend-is-the-one-who-brings-out-the-best-in-me","q":"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me","n":"my best friend is the one who brings out the best in me","c":"disputed","real":"Harris Weinstock","credited":"Henry Ford","credit":"Not Henry Ford — a modern trimming of Harris Weinstock's May 1914 line, misattributed to Ford by 1948.","cite":"Attributed to Harris Weinstock, May 1914, as recorded in \"Henry Ford (Misattributed),\" Wikiquote; misattributed to Henry Ford no earlier than 1948.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Harris Weinstock — California merchant & industrial-relations reformer. Theme: \"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/my-best-friend-is-the-one-who-brings-out-the-best-in-me/"},{"slug":"my-girlfriend-always-laughs-during-sex-no-matter-what-shes","q":"My girlfriend always laughs during sex — no matter what she's reading","n":"my girlfriend always laughs during sex no matter what shes reading","c":"disputed","real":"Emo Philips","credited":"Steve Jobs","credit":"Emo Philips (b. 1956), American stand-up comedian. NOT Steve Jobs: Wikiquote lists the line under Jobs' misattributed quotes and credits Philips' comedy routines; Wikiquote places it on his 1985 album E=MO². The popular \"laughs\" version is a later rewording. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in the stand-up routines of Emo Philips; recorded on E=MO² (New York: Epic Records, 1985). Attribution and the \"giggles\" wording per \"Emo Philips\" and \"Steve Jobs\" (Misattributed), Wikiquote, accessed 14 July 2026. No primary source attributes the line to Steve Jobs.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Emo Philips — American stand-up comedian. Theme: \"My girlfriend always laughs during sex — no matter what she's reading\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/my-girlfriend-always-laughs-during-sex-no-matter-what-shes/"},{"slug":"nature-does-not-hurry-yet-everything-is-accomplished","q":"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished","n":"nature does not hurry yet everything is accomplished","c":"disputed","real":"Lao Tzu","credited":"Anonymous modern paraphraser","credit":"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. —attributed to Lao Tzu (a modern paraphrase; not in any standard Tao Te Ching translation)","cite":"Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, chapter 37 (\"The way never acts, yet nothing is left undone\"); the popular sentence \"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished\" is an unsourced modern paraphrase found in no standard translation.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Lao Tzu — semi-legendary Chinese sage · reputed author of the Tao Te Ching. Theme: \"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/nature-does-not-hurry-yet-everything-is-accomplished/"},{"slug":"nearly-all-men-can-stand-adversity-but-if-you-want-to-test","q":"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power","n":"nearly all men can stand adversity but if you want to test a mans character give him power","c":"disputed","real":"Robert G. Ingersoll","credited":"Abraham Lincoln","credit":"— Robert G. Ingersoll","cite":"Robert G. Ingersoll, \"Abraham Lincoln\" (lecture), as printed in Unity (April 1883); earliest Lincoln misattribution documented in the Williamsburg Journal-Tribune (Iowa, 1931).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Robert G. Ingersoll — American lawyer & orator. Theme: \"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/nearly-all-men-can-stand-adversity-but-if-you-want-to-test/"},{"slug":"necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention","q":"Necessity is the mother of invention","n":"necessity is the mother of invention","c":"disputed","real":"English proverb (anonymous)","credited":"Plato","credit":"an English proverb (earliest modern form: Richard Franck, Northern Memoirs, 1658; Latin “Mater artium necessitas,” 1519), commonly misattributed to Plato via Benjamin Jowett’s translation of the Republic.","cite":"Earliest recorded modern English form in Richard Franck, Northern Memoirs, Calculated for the Meridian of Scotland (written 1658; London, 1694). Latin antecedent \"Mater artium necessitas\" in William Horman, Vulgaria (London, 1519). Cf. Plato, Republic, Book II, 369c, trans. Benjamin Jowett.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Plato — Athenian philosopher · author of the Republic. Theme: \"Necessity is the mother of invention\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/necessity-is-the-mother-of-invention/"},{"slug":"never-ascribe-to-malice-that-which-is-adequately-explained","q":"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity","n":"never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity","c":"disputed","real":"Robert J. Hanlon","credited":"Napoleon Bonaparte","credit":"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. — Robert J. Hanlon (\"Hanlon's Razor\"), first published in Murphy's Law Book Two, 1980. Commonly misattributed to Napoleon Bonaparte.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Never Attribute to Malice That Which Is Adequately Explained by Stupidity,\" Quote Investigator, Dec. 30, 2016 — earliest documented in Arthur Bloch, ed., Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong (Los Angeles: Price/Stern/Sloan, 1980).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Robert J. Hanlon — American computer programmer, Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania. Theme: \"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/never-ascribe-to-malice-that-which-is-adequately-explained/"},{"slug":"never-interfere-with-an-enemy-while-hes-in-the-process-of","q":"Never interfere with an enemy while he's in the process of destroying himself","n":"never interfere with an enemy while hes in the process of destroying himself","c":"disputed","real":"Napoleon Bonaparte","credited":"Sun Tzu","credit":"Not Sun Tzu. \"Never interfere with an enemy while he's in the process of destroying himself\" is a modern maxim popularly credited to Napoleon (with no primary source); its closest documented wording is Theodore H. White's The Making of the President 1964 (1965). Source: Quote Investigator.","cite":"Theodore H. White, The Making of the President 1964 (New York: Atheneum, 1965) — closest documented wording, there credited to \"Napoleon's maxim.\" Origin traced in Quote Investigator, \"Never Interfere With an Enemy While He's in the Process of Destroying Himself,\" 6 July 2010.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Napoleon Bonaparte — French general & emperor · attribution unverified. Theme: \"Never interfere with an enemy while he's in the process of destroying himself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/never-interfere-with-an-enemy-while-hes-in-the-process-of/"},{"slug":"never-let-the-fear-of-striking-out-keep-you-from-playing","q":"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game","n":"never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game","c":"disputed","real":"Babe Ruth","credited":"Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball (1928)","credit":"attributed to Babe Ruth, but no documented source exists. The line does not appear in \"Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball\" (1928), the work usually cited. Via quotle.info","cite":"No documented source. Commonly miscited as: Ruth, Babe. Babe Ruth's Own Book of Baseball. 1928. Project Gutenberg ebook 75586 — the quotation does not appear in that text. The closest authentic passage is Chapter XI, pp. 151–152.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Babe Ruth — American baseball player, Boston Red Sox & New York Yankees. Theme: \"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/never-let-the-fear-of-striking-out-keep-you-from-playing/"},{"slug":"never-put-off-till-tomorrow-what-may-be-done-day-after","q":"Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well","n":"never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well","c":"verified","real":"Mark Twain","credited":"","credit":"Mark Twain, \"The Late Benjamin Franklin,\" The Galaxy, July 1870 — a satirical fake-Franklin maxim, signed \"B. F.\"","cite":"Twain, Mark. \"Memoranda: The Late Benjamin Franklin.\" The Galaxy, vol. 10, July 1870.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Mark Twain — American author, humorist and lecturer. Theme: \"Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/never-put-off-till-tomorrow-what-may-be-done-day-after/"},{"slug":"never-was-anything-great-achieved-without-danger","q":"Never was anything great achieved without danger","n":"never was anything great achieved without danger","c":"attributed","real":"Niccolò Machiavelli","credited":"","credit":"attributed to Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527), but the line appears in none of his known works and is never sourced; likely a modern distillation of his ideas.","cite":"Widely attributed to Niccolò Machiavelli in modern quotation collections (e.g., Goodreads, BrainyQuote, AZQuotes); no primary source in his works has been identified. Nearest authentic parallel: Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Bk I, ch. 2.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Niccolò Machiavelli — Florentine political philosopher and statesman. Theme: \"Never was anything great achieved without danger\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/never-was-anything-great-achieved-without-danger/"},{"slug":"nice-guys-finish-last","q":"Nice guys finish last","n":"nice guys finish last","c":"disputed","real":"Leo Durocher","credited":"The four-word proverb","credit":"a sportswriters' condensation of Leo Durocher's 6 July 1946 remark about the last-place New York Giants (\"The nice guys are all over there. In seventh place.\").","cite":"Frank Graham, sports column, New York Journal-American, July 6, 1946; documented in Barry Popik, \"Nice Guys Finish Last,\" The Big Apple (barrypopik.com).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Leo Durocher — Hall of Fame MLB manager & shortstop, \"Leo the Lip\". Theme: \"Nice guys finish last\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/nice-guys-finish-last/"},{"slug":"no-act-of-kindness-no-matter-how-small-is-ever-wasted","q":"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted","n":"no act of kindness no matter how small is ever wasted","c":"disputed","real":"Aesop","credited":"Aesop","credit":"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. —Aesop (the moral of \"The Lion and the Mouse\"; this exact wording is a modern paraphrase, not a line from any standard translation)","cite":"Aesop. \"The Lion and the Mouse.\" In The Aesop for Children, illustrated by Milo Winter, moral \"A kindness is never wasted.\" Chicago: Rand McNally, 1919. The exact popular wording \"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted\" is a modern paraphrase not found in standard translations.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Aesop — semi-legendary Greek fabulist. Theme: \"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/no-act-of-kindness-no-matter-how-small-is-ever-wasted/"},{"slug":"no-coward-soul-is-mine-no-trembler-in-the-worlds-storm","q":"No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere","n":"no coward soul is mine no trembler in the worlds storm troubled sphere","c":"verified","real":"Emily Brontë","credited":"","credit":"Emily Brontë, \"No Coward Soul Is Mine\" (written January 1846)","cite":"Emily Brontë, \"No Coward Soul Is Mine\" (autograph manuscript dated January 1846; first published posthumously c. 1850 in Charlotte Brontë's selection of her sisters' poems). Text via The Complete Poems of Emily Brontë, Wikisource.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Emily Brontë — English poet and novelist. Theme: \"No coward soul is mine, no trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/no-coward-soul-is-mine-no-trembler-in-the-worlds-storm/"},{"slug":"no-longer-talk-at-all-about-the-kind-of-man-that-a-good-man","q":"No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such","n":"no longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be but be such","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"","credit":"Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book X.16 (trans. George Long, 1862)","cite":"Marcus Aurelius. The Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Translated by George Long. London, 1862. Book X, section 16.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/no-longer-talk-at-all-about-the-kind-of-man-that-a-good-man/"},{"slug":"no-man-is-an-island-entire-of-itself","q":"No man is an island entire of itself","n":"no man is an island entire of itself","c":"verified","real":"John Donne","credited":"","credit":"John Donne, Meditation XVII, \"Devotions upon Emergent Occasions\" (1624)","cite":"John Donne, \"Meditation XVII,\" in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions (London, 1624); modernized text in The Works of John Donne, vol. III, ed. Henry Alford (London: John W. Parker, 1839), 574–75.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Donne — English metaphysical poet & Dean of St Paul's Cathedral. Theme: \"No man is an island entire of itself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/no-man-is-an-island-entire-of-itself/"},{"slug":"no-man-is-free-who-is-not-master-of-himself","q":"No man is free who is not master of himself","n":"no man is free who is not master of himself","c":"disputed","real":"Epictetus","credited":"Not the Discourses or Handbook","credit":"No man is free who is not master of himself. —Epictetus (Fragments, no. 35, trans. W. A. Oldfather, Loeb 1928; classed among the doubtful and spurious fragments, preserved via Stobaeus)","cite":"Epictetus. \"Fragments,\" no. 35, in The Discourses as Reported by Arrian, the Manual, and Fragments. Translated by W. A. Oldfather. Loeb Classical Library 218. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1928. Classed among the 'Doubtful and Spurious Fragments.'","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Epictetus — Greek Stoic philosopher, born enslaved. Theme: \"No man is free who is not master of himself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/no-man-is-free-who-is-not-master-of-himself/"},{"slug":"no-matter-how-busy-you-may-think-you-are-you-must-find-time","q":"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance","n":"no matter how busy you may think you are you must find time for reading or surrender yourself to self chosen ignorance","c":"disputed","real":"Atwood H. Townsend","credited":"Confucius","credit":"Not Confucius. Credited to Atwood H. Townsend, editor of the guide \"Good Reading\" (editions from at least 1960), per Wikiquote. Not found in the Analects or any Confucian classic.","cite":"Atwood H. Townsend, ed., Good Reading: A Guide for Serious Readers (New York: Mentor / New American Library), preface; earliest documented editions cited by Wikiquote from at least 1960. Misattributed to Confucius.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Atwood H. Townsend — New York University English professor & editor of Good Reading. Theme: \"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/no-matter-how-busy-you-may-think-you-are-you-must-find-time/"},{"slug":"no-one-can-make-you-feel-inferior-without-your-consent","q":"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent","n":"no one can make you feel inferior without your consent","c":"attributed","real":"Eleanor Roosevelt","credited":"","credit":"— Eleanor Roosevelt","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"No One Can Make You Feel Inferior Without Your Consent,\" QuoteInvestigator.com, April 30, 2012. Earliest documented attribution: Reader's Digest, September 1940 (no source given).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Eleanor Roosevelt — First Lady, diplomat & human-rights advocate. Theme: \"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/no-one-can-make-you-feel-inferior-without-your-consent/"},{"slug":"no-race-can-prosper-till-it-learns-that-there-is-as-much","q":"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem","n":"no race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem","c":"verified","real":"Booker T. Washington","credited":"","credit":"Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address (1895); reprinted in Up from Slavery (1901)","cite":"Booker T. Washington, \"Atlanta Exposition Address\" (18 September 1895), reprinted in Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901), ch. 14.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Booker T. Washington — Educator, orator & founder of Tuskegee Institute. Theme: \"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/no-race-can-prosper-till-it-learns-that-there-is-as-much/"},{"slug":"nobody-is-more-inferior-than-those-who-insist-on-being-equal","q":"Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal","n":"nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal","c":"disputed","real":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credited":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credit":"Nietzsche never wrote this. It appears in none of his works; its earliest source is a fictional interview that spliced the line between two real passages of Beyond Good and Evil §212.","cite":"No source in Nietzsche's works. Earliest documented appearance: Richard Marshall, \"Exclusive 3:16 Interview with Friedrich Nietzsche\" (3:16 AM Magazine, fictional interview), where the line is interpolated among genuine passages of Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (1886), 212.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Friedrich Nietzsche — German philosopher & classical philologist. Theme: \"Nobody is more inferior than those who insist on being equal\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/nobody-is-more-inferior-than-those-who-insist-on-being-equal/"},{"slug":"nobody-made-a-greater-mistake-than-he-who-did-nothing","q":"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little","n":"nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little","c":"disputed","real":"Sydney Smith","credited":"Edmund Burke","credit":"Idea from Sydney Smith, \"Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy\" (1850) — popular \"Nobody made a greater mistake…\" wording is a later paraphrase; not Edmund Burke.","cite":"Sydney Smith, Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy: Delivered at the Royal Institution, in the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850). Origin analysis: \"It Is the Greatest of All Mistakes, To Do Nothing Because You Can Only Do Little,\" Quote Investigator, 31 January 2020.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Sydney Smith — English clergyman, essayist & co-founder of the Edinburgh Review. Theme: \"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/nobody-made-a-greater-mistake-than-he-who-did-nothing/"},{"slug":"none-are-so-old-as-those-who-have-outlived-enthusiasm","q":"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm","n":"none are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm","c":"attributed","real":"Henry David Thoreau","credited":"Henry David Thoreau","credit":"Attributed to Henry David Thoreau (unverified; earliest known source Kate Sanborn, A Year of Sunshine, 1886)","cite":"Earliest documented in Kate Sanborn, comp., A Year of Sunshine: Cheerful Extracts for Every Day in the Year (1886), where it is credited to Thoreau; not located in Thoreau's own writings.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, poet & naturalist. Theme: \"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/none-are-so-old-as-those-who-have-outlived-enthusiasm/"},{"slug":"normality-is-a-well-paved-street-it-is-good-for-walking-but","q":"Normality is a well-paved street; it is good for walking, but no flowers will grow there","n":"normality is a well paved street it is good for walking but no flowers will grow there","c":"disputed","real":"Vincent van Gogh","credited":"Vincent van Gogh","credit":"Widely attributed to Vincent van Gogh, but there is no source in his letters or writings — the earliest known trace is a 2009 exhibition catalog, uncited. True author unknown. (Quote Investigator)","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Normality is a Well-Paved Street; It Is Good for Walking, But No Flowers Will Grow There,\" QuoteInvestigator.com, 10 March 2023. Earliest documented attestation: Vincent Van Gogh: Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes (Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel, 2009), dust-jacket flap, uncited.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Vincent van Gogh — Dutch Post-Impressionist painter. Theme: \"Normality is a well-paved street; it is good for walking, but no flowers will grow there\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/normality-is-a-well-paved-street-it-is-good-for-walking-but/"},{"slug":"not-all-of-us-can-do-great-things-but-we-can-do-small","q":"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love","n":"not all of us can do great things but we can do small things with great love","c":"disputed","real":"Mother Teresa (Saint Teresa of Calcutta)","credited":"Mother Teresa (paraphrased)","credit":"Attributed to Mother Teresa — a paraphrase. The documented wording is \"Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love,\" from Come Be My Light (2007).","cite":"Earliest documented wording: Mother Teresa, quoted in Brian Kolodiejchuk, ed., Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light (New York: Doubleday, 2007). The popular variant \"Not all of us can do great things…\" is listed as a paraphrase by the Mother Teresa Center, motherteresa.org/mtc/false-quotes.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Mother Teresa — Roman Catholic nun · founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Theme: \"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/not-all-of-us-can-do-great-things-but-we-can-do-small/"},{"slug":"not-all-those-who-wander-are-lost","q":"Not all those who wander are lost","n":"not all those who wander are lost","c":"verified","real":"J.R.R. Tolkien","credited":"","credit":"J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (1954) — from the poem \"The Riddle of Strider\"","cite":"J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, being the first part of The Lord of the Rings (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954), bk. 1, chap. 10, \"Strider.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of J.R.R. Tolkien — English writer, poet & philologist; author of The Lord of the Rings. Theme: \"Not all those who wander are lost\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/not-all-those-who-wander-are-lost/"},{"slug":"not-everything-that-counts-can-be-counted-and-not","q":"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts","n":"not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts","c":"disputed","real":"William Bruce Cameron","credited":"Albert Einstein","credit":"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. —William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology (1963), not Albert Einstein","cite":"William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (New York: Random House, 1963), 13. First half published earlier in the AAUP Bulletin (1957).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of William Bruce Cameron — author of Informal Sociology (1963). Theme: \"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/not-everything-that-counts-can-be-counted-and-not/"},{"slug":"not-everything-that-is-faced-can-be-changed-but-nothing-can","q":"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced","n":"not everything that is faced can be changed but nothing can be changed until it is faced","c":"verified","real":"James Baldwin","credited":"","credit":"Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced. —James Baldwin, \"As Much Truth As One Can Bear,\" The New York Times Book Review, 14 January 1962","cite":"James Baldwin, \"As Much Truth As One Can Bear,\" The New York Times Book Review, 14 January 1962, p. BR38; reprinted in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, ed. Randall Kenan (New York: Pantheon, 2010).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of James Baldwin — American novelist, essayist & civil-rights witness. Theme: \"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/not-everything-that-is-faced-can-be-changed-but-nothing-can/"},{"slug":"not-knowing-when-the-dawn-will-come-i-open-every-door","q":"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door","n":"not knowing when the dawn will come i open every door","c":"verified","real":"Emily Dickinson","credited":"","credit":"— Emily Dickinson","cite":"Dickinson, Emily. \"Dawn.\" In Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series, edited by Mabel Loomis Todd, 109. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1896. (Johnson no. 1619; Franklin no. 1647.)","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Emily Dickinson — American poet. Theme: \"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/not-knowing-when-the-dawn-will-come-i-open-every-door/"},{"slug":"not-until-we-are-lost-do-we-begin-to-understand-ourselves","q":"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves","n":"not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves","c":"verified","real":"Henry David Thoreau","credited":"","credit":"Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), \"The Village\" — the popular \"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves\" is a paraphrase of his actual line, \"Not till we are lost … do we begin to find ourselves.\"","cite":"Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), \"The Village.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, poet & naturalist. Theme: \"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/not-until-we-are-lost-do-we-begin-to-understand-ourselves/"},{"slug":"nothing-can-be-more-contrary-to-religion-and-the-clergy","q":"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense","n":"nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense","c":"disputed","real":"Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach","credited":"Voltaire","credit":"Baron d'Holbach, Théologie portative (1768), entry \"Folie\" — often misattributed to Voltaire","cite":"Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach, Théologie portative, ou Dictionnaire abrégé de la religion chrétienne (1768), s.v. \"Folie\": \"Rien n'est plus contraire à la Religion et au Clergé qu'une tête sensée et raisonnable.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d'Holbach — French-German Enlightenment philosopher & atheist. Theme: \"Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/nothing-can-be-more-contrary-to-religion-and-the-clergy/"},{"slug":"nothing-in-life-is-to-be-feared-it-is-only-to-be-understood","q":"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood","n":"nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood","c":"attributed","real":"Marie Curie","credited":"","credit":"attributed to Marie Curie. Credible but not pinned to a primary source; the popular second sentence (\"Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less\") appears to be Glenn Seaborg's, added in 1968. Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest located printing: «On ne doit rien craindre dans la vie—il suffit de comprendre», Laval médical 16 (1951): 569. Two-sentence form: Glenn T. Seaborg, \"Need We Fear Our Nuclear Future?\" Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists 24, no. 1 (1968): 36–42.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Marie Curie — physicist and chemist, two-time Nobel laureate. Theme: \"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/nothing-in-life-is-to-be-feared-it-is-only-to-be-understood/"},{"slug":"nothing-is-impossible-the-word-itself-says-im-possible","q":"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm possible","n":"nothing is impossible the word itself says im possible","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — an anonymous piece of wordplay","credited":"Audrey Hepburn","credit":"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible' — attributed to Audrey Hepburn, but unsourced; found in none of her documented speeches, interviews, books, or letters.","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest documentation is as an unsourced attribution to Audrey Hepburn; see \"Talk:Audrey Hepburn,\" Wikiquote, and the \"attributed-no-source\"-tagged entry on Goodreads.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Audrey Hepburn — actress & UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Theme: \"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I'm possible\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/nothing-is-impossible-the-word-itself-says-im-possible/"},{"slug":"nothing-is-more-common-than-the-wish-to-be-remarkable","q":"Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable","n":"nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable","c":"disputed","real":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.","credited":"William Shakespeare","credit":"Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858). Original wording: “Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.”","cite":"Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1858). Originally serialized in The Atlantic Monthly, 1857–58.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. — American physician, poet & essayist · The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. Theme: \"Nothing is more common than the wish to be remarkable\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/nothing-is-more-common-than-the-wish-to-be-remarkable/"},{"slug":"nothing-is-so-firmly-believed-as-that-which-we-least-know","q":"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know","n":"nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know","c":"verified","real":"Michel de Montaigne","credited":"","credit":"Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know. —Michel de Montaigne, Essais, Book I, ch. 31 (1580), trans. Charles Cotton","cite":"Michel de Montaigne, \"That a Man Is Soberly to Judge of the Divine Ordinances,\" in 'Essais', Book I, ch. 31 (first published 1580), trans. Charles Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Michel de Montaigne — French Renaissance philosopher & inventor of the personal essay. Theme: \"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/nothing-is-so-firmly-believed-as-that-which-we-least-know/"},{"slug":"nothing-is-so-painful-to-the-human-mind-as-a-great-and","q":"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change","n":"nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change","c":"verified","real":"Mary Shelley","credited":"","credit":"Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818)","cite":"Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. 3 vols. London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818, vol. 3, ch. 6.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Mary Shelley — English novelist, essayist, and editor. Theme: \"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/nothing-is-so-painful-to-the-human-mind-as-a-great-and/"},{"slug":"nothing-is-too-wonderful-to-be-true-if-it-be-consistent","q":"Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature","n":"nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature","c":"verified","real":"Michael Faraday","credited":"","credit":"Michael Faraday, laboratory journal, 19 March 1849 (The Life and Letters of Faraday, Vol. II, 1870)","cite":"Michael Faraday, laboratory journal entry #10,040 (19 March 1849), in Henry Bence Jones, ed., The Life and Letters of Faraday, vol. 2 (London: Longmans, Green, 1870), 248.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Michael Faraday — English physicist & chemist. Theme: \"Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/nothing-is-too-wonderful-to-be-true-if-it-be-consistent/"},{"slug":"nothing-strengthens-authority-so-much-as-silence","q":"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence","n":"nothing strengthens authority so much as silence","c":"disputed","real":"Charles de Gaulle","credited":"Leonardo da Vinci","credit":"Charles de Gaulle, Le Fil de l'épée (1932) — \"Rien ne rehausse l'autorité mieux que le silence.\" Often misattributed to Leonardo da Vinci.","cite":"Charles de Gaulle, \"Du Prestige,\" 'Revue Militaire Française' (1931); collected in 'Le Fil de l'épée' (Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1932); English as 'The Edge of the Sword,' trans. Gerard Hopkins (London: Faber & Faber, 1960). Origin traced by Quote Investigator (22 Jan 2026).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Charles de Gaulle — French general, leader of Free France & President of the Fifth Republic. Theme: \"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/nothing-strengthens-authority-so-much-as-silence/"},{"slug":"observe-always-that-everything-is-the-result-of-a-change","q":"Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them","n":"observe always that everything is the result of a change and get used to thinking that there is nothing nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"","credit":"Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book IV.36 (c. AD 170–180). A genuine passage; the popular English wording is a modernized rendering, not a standard published translation.","cite":"Marcus Aurelius. Meditations, Book IV.36. Translated by George Long. London, 1862. (Greek original composed c. AD 170–180.) The popular English wording does not correspond to this or any other catalogued translation.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor (161–180) & Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/observe-always-that-everything-is-the-result-of-a-change/"},{"slug":"of-all-the-means-to-ensure-happiness-friendship-is-the-most","q":"Of all the means to ensure happiness, friendship is the most important","n":"of all the means to ensure happiness friendship is the most important","c":"disputed","real":"Epicurus","credited":"A modern web-era paraphrase","credit":"Adapted from Epicurus, Principal Doctrines 27 (modern paraphrase)","cite":"Epicurus. \"Principal Doctrines\" (Kyriai Doxai), no. 27, in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Book X.148, trans. R. D. Hicks (Loeb Classical Library, 1925). The popular one-line form is a modern paraphrase.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Epicurus — Greek philosopher, founder of Epicureanism. Theme: \"Of all the means to ensure happiness, friendship is the most important\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/of-all-the-means-to-ensure-happiness-friendship-is-the-most/"},{"slug":"once-you-choose-hope-anything-is-possible","q":"Once you choose hope, anything is possible","n":"once you choose hope anything is possible","c":"attributed","real":"Christopher Reeve","credited":"","credit":"Once you choose hope, anything's possible. —Christopher Reeve (attributed; no primary source documents this exact wording. His 2002 book Nothing Is Impossible has the related sentence \"Once we choose hope, everything is possible.\") Via quotle.info","cite":"No source documents the popular wording. Closest documented: Christopher Reeve, Nothing Is Impossible: Reflections on a New Life (New York: Random House, 2002), closing chapter “Hope” — “Once we choose hope, everything is possible.”","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Christopher Reeve — American actor, director & spinal-cord-injury advocate. Theme: \"Once you choose hope, anything is possible\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/once-you-choose-hope-anything-is-possible/"},{"slug":"once-you-have-tasted-flight-you-will-forever-walk-the-earth","q":"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return","n":"once you have tasted flight you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward for there you have been and there you will always long to return","c":"disputed","real":"John H. Secondari","credited":"Leonardo da Vinci","credit":"Written by John H. Secondari for the 1965 ABC film \"I, Leonardo da Vinci\" — not written by Leonardo da Vinci.","cite":"John H. Secondari, writer, I, Leonardo da Vinci, from the series The Saga of Western Man (American Broadcasting Company, 1965). Origin documented in Garson O'Toole, \"Once You Have Tasted Flight You Will Walk the Earth With Your Eyes Turned Skyward,\" Quote Investigator, January 7, 2019.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of John H. Secondari — American author, journalist & TV documentary producer. Theme: \"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been and there you will always long to return\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/once-you-have-tasted-flight-you-will-forever-walk-the-earth/"},{"slug":"once-you-learn-to-read-you-will-be-forever-free","q":"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free","n":"once you learn to read you will be forever free","c":"disputed","real":"Frederick Douglass","credited":"No identifiable author — a modern paraphrase","credit":"Frederick Douglass never wrote this exact sentence. It is a modern paraphrase of his 1845 Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, where he wrote: \"From that moment, I understood the pathway from slavery to freedom.\"","cite":"Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845), ch. VI–VII. The exact sentence \"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free\" is a modern paraphrase not present in Douglass's text.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Frederick Douglass — abolitionist, orator & formerly enslaved writer. Theme: \"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/once-you-learn-to-read-you-will-be-forever-free/"},{"slug":"once-you-make-a-decision-the-universe-conspires-to-make-it","q":"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen","n":"once you make a decision the universe conspires to make it happen","c":"disputed","real":"Paulo Coelho","credited":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credit":"is NOT by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Wikiquote lists it as misattributed, with no prior occurrence of the statement located anywhere before 2001. It seems derived from Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (1988; trans. Alan R. Clarke, first English publication 1993), p. 22 per Wikiquote's citation (edition unspecified): \"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.\" The earliest located attribution to Emerson is John F. Brown, The Gift of Depression (2001), p. 56. — Quotle.info","cite":"Coelho, Paulo. The Alchemist. Translated by Alan R. Clarke. Originally published as O Alquimista (Rio de Janeiro: Editora Rocco, 1988); first English publication HarperSanFrancisco, 1993. Page 22 per Wikiquote's citation, which names no edition — Wikiquote notes that page numbers vary among editions. Earliest located attribution of the reworded line to Emerson: John F. Brown, The Gift of Depression: Twenty-one Inspirational Stories Sharing Experience, Strength, and Hope (2001), p. 56.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Paulo Coelho — Brazilian novelist & lyricist. Theme: \"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/once-you-make-a-decision-the-universe-conspires-to-make-it/"},{"slug":"one-cannot-think-well-love-well-sleep-well-if-one-has-not","q":"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well","n":"one cannot think well love well sleep well if one has not dined well","c":"verified","real":"Virginia Woolf","credited":"","credit":"Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929)","cite":"Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. London: Hogarth Press, 1929, chap. 1.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Virginia Woolf — English novelist, essayist & modernist writer. Theme: \"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/one-cannot-think-well-love-well-sleep-well-if-one-has-not/"},{"slug":"one-child-one-teacher-one-book-one-pen-can-change-the-world","q":"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world","n":"one child one teacher one book one pen can change the world","c":"verified","real":"Malala Yousafzai","credited":"","credit":"Malala Yousafzai, speech to the UN Youth Assembly, New York, 12 July 2013","cite":"Malala Yousafzai, \"Speech to the United Nations Youth Assembly\" (address, United Nations, New York, July 12, 2013). Transcript published by the Malala Fund.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Malala Yousafzai — Pakistani education activist · youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Theme: \"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/one-child-one-teacher-one-book-one-pen-can-change-the-world/"},{"slug":"one-is-not-born-but-rather-becomes-a-woman","q":"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman","n":"one is not born but rather becomes a woman","c":"verified","real":"Simone de Beauvoir","credited":"","credit":"Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (Le Deuxième Sexe, 1949), Vol. II, opening line — trans. H. M. Parshley, 1953","cite":"Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, trans. H. M. Parshley (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953), Vol. II, ch. 1 — from Le Deuxième Sexe (Paris: Gallimard, 1949).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Simone de Beauvoir — French existentialist philosopher, writer & feminist theorist. Theme: \"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/one-is-not-born-but-rather-becomes-a-woman/"},{"slug":"one-of-the-penalties-for-refusing-to-participate-in","q":"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors","n":"one of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors","c":"attributed","real":"Plato","credited":"","credit":"Plato (paraphrase) — Republic, Book 1, 347c. The popular 'refusing to participate in politics… governed by your inferiors' wording is a modern paraphrase; Plato's literal line is 'the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office.'","cite":"Plato. Republic, Book 1, 347c–d. Translated by Paul Shorey. In Plato in Twelve Volumes, vols. 5–6. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Plato — Athenian philosopher. Theme: \"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/one-of-the-penalties-for-refusing-to-participate-in/"},{"slug":"one-ought-every-day-at-least-to-hear-a-little-song-read-a","q":"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture","n":"one ought every day at least to hear a little song read a good poem see a fine picture","c":"verified","real":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","credited":"","credit":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Book V, ch. 1 (spoken by Serlo), trans. Thomas Carlyle, 1824","cite":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Book V, ch. 1, trans. Thomas Carlyle (1824); German original Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (1795–96).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe — German poet, novelist, playwright & statesman. Theme: \"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/one-ought-every-day-at-least-to-hear-a-little-song-read-a/"},{"slug":"one-person-can-make-a-difference-and-every-person-should-try","q":"One person can make a difference, and every person should try","n":"one person can make a difference and every person should try","c":"disputed","real":"Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis","credited":"John F. Kennedy","credit":"commonly credited to John F. Kennedy, but the words were written by Jacqueline Kennedy about him; Look magazine credited her in 1966.","cite":"Jacqueline Kennedy, statement for the John F. Kennedy Library exhibit, mid-1960s; first published in Look magazine, 1966. Attribution history documented in \"Did JFK Say It?: One Person Can Make a Difference and Everyone Should Try,\" JFK Library Archives blog, 28 October 2019.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis — U.S. First Lady & book editor. Theme: \"One person can make a difference, and every person should try\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/one-person-can-make-a-difference-and-every-person-should-try/"},{"slug":"only-the-dead-have-seen-the-end-of-war","q":"Only the dead have seen the end of war","n":"only the dead have seen the end of war","c":"disputed","real":"George Santayana","credited":"Plato","credit":"George Santayana, \"Tipperary,\" in Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922) — not Plato","cite":"George Santayana, \"Tipperary,\" in Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (London: Constable; New York: Scribner, 1922).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of George Santayana — Spanish-born American philosopher, essayist & poet. Theme: \"Only the dead have seen the end of war\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/only-the-dead-have-seen-the-end-of-war/"},{"slug":"only-those-who-will-risk-going-too-far-can-possibly-find","q":"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go","n":"only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go","c":"verified","real":"T. S. Eliot","credited":"","credit":"T.S. Eliot, Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)","cite":"Eliot, T. S. \"Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems, by Harry Crosby.\" In Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus: Poems. Paris: Black Sun Press, 1931. Reprinted in The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition, vol. 4, English Lion, 1930–1933, ed. Jason Harding and Ronald Schuchard (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press / London: Faber and Faber, 2015), 365–368.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of T. S. Eliot — poet, critic, and editor. Theme: \"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/only-those-who-will-risk-going-too-far-can-possibly-find/"},{"slug":"opportunities-multiply-as-they-are-seized","q":"Opportunities multiply as they are seized","n":"opportunities multiply as they are seized","c":"disputed","real":"Origin undocumented","credited":"Sun Tzu","credit":"Misattributed to Sun Tzu. The line \"Opportunities multiply as they are seized\" appears in no authentic translation of The Art of War and is listed as misattributed on Wikiquote; its true origin is undocumented.","cite":"Sun Tzu, The Art of War, trans. Lionel Giles (London: Luzac & Co., 1910); full text at Project Gutenberg. The phrase “Opportunities multiply as they are seized” does not appear in this or any documented translation and is listed as misattributed on Wikiquote.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Sun Tzu — Chinese general & strategist, traditional author of The Art of War. Theme: \"Opportunities multiply as they are seized\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/opportunities-multiply-as-they-are-seized/"},{"slug":"opportunity-is-missed-by-most-people-because-it-is-dressed","q":"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work","n":"opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — an anonymous American adage","credited":"Thomas Edison","credit":"Anonymous American adage (earliest printed May 1921); popularly misattributed to Thomas Edison. — Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented, uncredited, in the Logansport Pharos-Tribune (Indiana), May 1921; origin traced in \"Opportunity Is Missed Because It Is Dressed in Overalls and Looks Like Work,\" Quote Investigator, August 13, 2012.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Edison — American inventor & businessman. Theme: \"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/opportunity-is-missed-by-most-people-because-it-is-dressed/"},{"slug":"optimism-is-the-faith-that-leads-to-achievement-nothing-can","q":"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope","n":"optimism is the faith that leads to achievement nothing can be done without hope","c":"verified","real":"Helen Keller","credited":"","credit":"Helen Keller, Optimism: An Essay (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1903), Part III, \"The Practice of Optimism.\"","cite":"Helen Keller, Optimism: An Essay (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1903), Part III, \"The Practice of Optimism.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Helen Keller — American author, lecturer & disability-rights advocate. Theme: \"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/optimism-is-the-faith-that-leads-to-achievement-nothing-can/"},{"slug":"organize-agitate-educate-must-be-our-war-cry","q":"Organize, agitate, educate must be our war cry","n":"organize agitate educate must be our war cry","c":"verified","real":"Susan B. Anthony","credited":"","credit":"Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry. —Susan B. Anthony, appeal in the Woman's Tribune, 1893","cite":"Ida Husted Harper, The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, vol. 2 (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, 1898), ch. XLI, quoting Anthony's spring 1893 appeal in the Woman's Tribune.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Susan B. Anthony — American suffrage leader & abolitionist. Theme: \"Organize, agitate, educate must be our war cry\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/organize-agitate-educate-must-be-our-war-cry/"},{"slug":"our-deepest-fear-is-not-that-we-are-inadequate-our-deepest","q":"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us","n":"our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure it is our light not our darkness that most frightens us","c":"disputed","real":"Marianne Williamson","credited":"Nelson Mandela","credit":"Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love (1992) — not Nelson Mandela","cite":"Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), ch. 7.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Marianne Williamson — American author, spiritual teacher & lecturer. Theme: \"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/our-deepest-fear-is-not-that-we-are-inadequate-our-deepest/"},{"slug":"our-greatest-glory-is-not-in-never-falling-but-in-rising","q":"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall","n":"our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall","c":"disputed","real":"Oliver Goldsmith","credited":"Confucius","credit":"Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World (1762) — commonly misattributed to Confucius","cite":"Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the East, Letter VII (London, 1762). Earliest documented use; reassigned to Confucius by 1831 (The Royal Lady's Magazine).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Oliver Goldsmith — Anglo-Irish poet, playwright & novelist. Theme: \"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/our-greatest-glory-is-not-in-never-falling-but-in-rising/"},{"slug":"out-of-suffering-have-emerged-the-strongest-souls-the-most","q":"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars","n":"out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars","c":"disputed","real":"Edwin Hubbell Chapin","credited":"Kahlil Gibran","credit":"Edwin Hubbell Chapin, Discourses on the Beatitudes (1853) — commonly misattributed to Kahlil Gibran","cite":"Edwin Hubbell Chapin, \"The Blessing of the Mourners,\" in Discourses on the Beatitudes (Boston: A. Tompkins, 1853). Attribution documented in the WIST quotation archive.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Edwin Hubbell Chapin — American Universalist preacher & orator. Theme: \"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/out-of-suffering-have-emerged-the-strongest-souls-the-most/"},{"slug":"out-of-suffering-have-emerged-the-strongest-souls","q":"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls","n":"out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls","c":"verified","real":"Edwin Hubbell Chapin","credited":"","credit":"Not Kahlil Gibran — this line is from Edwin Hubbell Chapin's 1860 book Living Words.","cite":"Chapin, Edwin Hubbell. Living Words. Boston: A. Tompkins, 1860, p. 185.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Kahlil Gibran — Lebanese-American writer, poet & artist. Theme: \"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/out-of-suffering-have-emerged-the-strongest-souls/"},{"slug":"patience-is-a-conquering-virtue","q":"Patience is a conquering virtue","n":"patience is a conquering virtue","c":"verified","real":"Geoffrey Chaucer","credited":"","credit":"Geoffrey Chaucer, \"The Franklin's Tale,\" The Canterbury Tales (trans. Nevill Coghill, Penguin Classics, 1951)","cite":"Geoffrey Chaucer, \"The Franklin's Tale,\" in The Canterbury Tales, trans. Nevill Coghill (Harmondsworth: Penguin Classics, 1951). Middle English original: \"Pacience is an heigh vertu, certeyn.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Geoffrey Chaucer — English poet & royal servant, the 'Father of English literature'. Theme: \"Patience is a conquering virtue\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/patience-is-a-conquering-virtue/"},{"slug":"patience-is-bitter-but-its-fruit-is-sweet","q":"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet","n":"patience is bitter but its fruit is sweet","c":"disputed","real":"A traditional Persian proverb","credited":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","credit":"a traditional Persian proverb recorded by Jean Chardin (1711); popularly misattributed to Jean-Jacques Rousseau (and to Aristotle).","cite":"Jean Chardin, Voyages en Perse et autres lieux de l'Orient (1711), 175; credited to Rousseau by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1922).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Jean (John) Chardin — French-British traveller & jeweller who chronicled Persia. Theme: \"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/patience-is-bitter-but-its-fruit-is-sweet/"},{"slug":"pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain","q":"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain","n":"pay no attention to the man behind the curtain","c":"disputed","real":"Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson & Edgar Allan Woolf","credited":"\"the man behind the curtain\"","credit":"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain! — The Wizard (Frank Morgan), The Wizard of Oz, screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf (MGM, 1939)","cite":"Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, The Wizard of Oz, directed by Victor Fleming (Culver City, CA: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939). Dialogue verified against the MGM cutting continuity, last revised 15 March 1939, and against Wikiquote's transcription of the released film.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson & Edgar Allan Woolf — The Wizard of Oz (MGM, 1939). Theme: \"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain/"},{"slug":"peace-comes-from-within-do-not-seek-it-without","q":"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without","n":"peace comes from within do not seek it without","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous — a 19th-century Western aphorism","credited":"Buddha (Siddhārtha Gautama)","credit":"Not a Buddha quote. \"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.\" is an anonymous 19th-century Western maxim — once called \"the message of Marcus Aurelius\" (1908) — first attributed to the Buddha only in G. F. Allen's 1959 anthology. It appears nowhere in the Pali Canon. Source: Quotle.info","cite":"Bodhipaksa, \"'Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.'\" Fake Buddha Quotes. Earliest Buddha attribution documented in G. F. Allen, Buddha's Words of Wisdom (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1959).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of G. F. Allen — British Buddhist anthologist. Theme: \"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/peace-comes-from-within-do-not-seek-it-without/"},{"slug":"people-are-often-unreasonable-illogical-and-self-centered","q":"People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; forgive them anyway","n":"people are often unreasonable illogical and self centered forgive them anyway","c":"disputed","real":"Kent M. Keith","credited":"Mother Teresa","credit":"Kent M. Keith, \"The Paradoxical Commandments\" (1968) — often misattributed to Mother Teresa","cite":"Kent M. Keith, \"The Paradoxical Commandments,\" in The Silent Revolution: Dynamic Leadership in the Student Council (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Student Agencies, 1968); Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Kent M. Keith — American author, lawyer & former student leader. Theme: \"People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; forgive them anyway\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/people-are-often-unreasonable-illogical-and-self-centered/"},{"slug":"people-dont-care-how-much-you-know-until-they-know-how-much","q":"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care","n":"people dont care how much you know until they know how much you care","c":"disputed","real":"Theodore Roosevelt","credited":"Theodore Roosevelt","credit":"Anonymous modern adage — often misattributed to Theodore Roosevelt, but with no evidence he said it. Earliest documented use dates to 1959 (Margaret Tyson) and 1962 (Beltone). Via Quote Investigator.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Quote Origin: People Don't Care How Much You Know Until They Know How Much You Care,\" July 4, 2024. Earliest documented use: Margaret Tyson commencement address, 1959; Beltone Hearing Aid Company manual, 1962.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Theodore Roosevelt — 26th President of the United States. Theme: \"People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/people-dont-care-how-much-you-know-until-they-know-how-much/"},{"slug":"people-dont-want-to-buy-a-quarter-inch-drill-they-want-a","q":"People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole","n":"people dont want to buy a quarter inch drill they want a quarter inch hole","c":"disputed","real":"Theodore Levitt","credited":"Zig Ziglar","credit":"Not Zig Ziglar. A sales/marketing adage documented from at least 1942 (C.C. Wagner), popularized by Leo McGivena (via Percy Whiting, 1947) and Theodore Levitt (1969, who credited McGivena). The exact wording is Clayton Christensen's 2005 phrasing. — via Quote Investigator","cite":"Garson O'Toole, \"No One Wants a Drill. What They Want Is the Hole,\" Quote Investigator, March 23, 2019. Earliest form: C.C. Wagner (1942); popularized by Leo McGivena in Percy H. Whiting, \"The Five Great Rules of Selling\" (1947) and Theodore Levitt, \"The Marketing Mode\" (1969); exact modern wording from Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business Review (2005).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Theodore Levitt — Harvard Business School economist who coined ‘marketing myopia’. Theme: \"People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/people-dont-want-to-buy-a-quarter-inch-drill-they-want-a/"},{"slug":"people-say-nothing-is-impossible-but-i-do-nothing-every-day","q":"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day","n":"people say nothing is impossible but i do nothing every day","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (traditional joke)","credited":"A. A. Milne","credit":"Anonymous joke, earliest known printing 1906 — not A. A. Milne (per Quote Investigator)","cite":"Earliest documented in The Foolish Almanak For Anuthur Year (Boston: John W. Luce & Co., 1906); origin traced by Garson O'Toole, \"People Say Nothing Is Impossible, But I Do Nothing Every Day,\" Quote Investigator, March 8, 2013.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of A. A. Milne — English author, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh. Theme: \"People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/people-say-nothing-is-impossible-but-i-do-nothing-every-day/"},{"slug":"people-sleep-peaceably-in-their-beds-at-night-only-because","q":"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf","n":"people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf","c":"disputed","real":"George Orwell","credited":"George Orwell","credit":"Not an Orwell quote — the wording was coined by critic Richard Grenier in a 6 April 1993 Washington Times column, paraphrasing Orwell without quotation marks. Orwell's genuine, related idea appears in his 1942 essay \"Rudyard Kipling.\"","cite":"Richard Grenier, \"Perils of Passive Sex,\" The Washington Times, April 6, 1993 (paraphrasing George Orwell, without quotation marks). Related genuine source: George Orwell, \"Rudyard Kipling,\" Horizon (1942).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of George Orwell — English novelist, essayist & journalist. Theme: \"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/people-sleep-peaceably-in-their-beds-at-night-only-because/"},{"slug":"people-will-forget-what-you-said-people-will-forget-what","q":"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel","n":"people will forget what you said people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel","c":"disputed","real":"Carl W. Buehner (earliest credited)","credited":"Maya Angelou","credit":"Earliest documented form credited to Carl W. Buehner in Richard Evans' Quote Book (1971); the version attributed to Maya Angelou is a later, unsupported paraphrase. — Quotle.info","cite":"Richard L. Evans, comp., Richard Evans’ Quote Book (Salt Lake City: Publishers Press, 1971), attributing the saying to Carl W. Buehner; per Quote Investigator, “They May Forget What You Said, But They Will Never Forget How You Made Them Feel,” 6 April 2014.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Carl W. Buehner — Latter-day Saint leader & Salt Lake City businessman. Theme: \"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/people-will-forget-what-you-said-people-will-forget-what/"},{"slug":"play-it-again-sam","q":"Play it again, Sam","n":"play it again sam","c":"disputed","real":"Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein & Howard Koch","credited":"Casablanca (1942)","credit":"Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942), screenplay by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein and Howard Koch — \"Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.'\" Commonly misquoted as \"Play it again, Sam,\" a line that appears nowhere in the film.","cite":"Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch, Casablanca (Warner Bros., 1942), based on the unproduced play Everybody Comes to Rick's by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison (1940). Dialogue as transcribed at Wikiquote.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein & Howard Koch — Casablanca (1942) · Warner Bros.. Theme: \"Play it again, Sam\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/play-it-again-sam/"},{"slug":"power-concedes-nothing-without-a-demand-it-never-did-and-it","q":"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will","n":"power concedes nothing without a demand it never did and it never will","c":"verified","real":"Frederick Douglass","credited":"","credit":"Frederick Douglass, \"West India Emancipation\" address, Canandaigua, N.Y., August 3, 1857 (printed in Two Speeches, by Frederick Douglass, 1857).","cite":"Frederick Douglass, \"West India Emancipation\" (address, Canandaigua, N.Y., Aug. 3, 1857), in Two Speeches, by Frederick Douglass (Rochester, N.Y.: C. P. Dewey, 1857).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Frederick Douglass — Abolitionist orator, writer & statesman. Theme: \"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/power-concedes-nothing-without-a-demand-it-never-did-and-it/"},{"slug":"power-tends-to-corrupt-and-absolute-power-corrupts","q":"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely","n":"power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely","c":"verified","real":"Lord Acton (John Dalberg-Acton)","credited":"","credit":"— Lord Acton (John Dalberg-Acton), letter to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 5 April 1887","cite":"John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, Baron Acton to Bishop Mandell Creighton, 5 April 1887; first collected in Historical Essays and Studies (London: Macmillan, 1907).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Lord Acton (John Dalberg-Acton) — English historian, moralist & Liberal politician. Theme: \"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/power-tends-to-corrupt-and-absolute-power-corrupts/"},{"slug":"prevention-is-better-than-cure","q":"Prevention is better than cure","n":"prevention is better than cure","c":"disputed","real":"An anonymous English proverb","credited":"Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536)","credit":"Prevention is better than cure. — English proverb (popularly misattributed to Erasmus)","cite":"Adams, Thomas. \"The Works of Thomas Adams.\" London, 1630 (\"prevention is so much better than healing…\"). The five-word proverb is an anonymous English saying; no source ties the wording to Erasmus.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Adams — English clergyman and preacher. Theme: \"Prevention is better than cure\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/prevention-is-better-than-cure/"},{"slug":"pride-comes-before-a-fall","q":"Pride comes before a fall","n":"pride comes before a fall","c":"disputed","real":"The Bible (Book of Proverbs)","credited":"The Bible","credit":"Proverbs 16:18 (King James Version, 1611): \"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.\" The popular \"pride comes before a fall\" is a later paraphrase.","cite":"The Holy Bible, King James Version (London, 1611), Proverbs 16:18: \"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.\" The popular \"pride comes before a fall\" is a later anonymous paraphrase.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of The Book of Proverbs — wisdom literature traditionally ascribed to King Solomon. Theme: \"Pride comes before a fall\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/pride-comes-before-a-fall/"},{"slug":"promise-yourself-to-be-so-strong-that-nothing-can-disturb","q":"Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind","n":"promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind","c":"verified","real":"Christian D. Larson","credited":"","credit":"Christian D. Larson, \"Promise Yourself,\" in Your Forces and How to Use Them (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1912).","cite":"Larson, Christian D. \"Promise Yourself.\" In Your Forces and How to Use Them. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1912. Unnumbered leaf between the Foreword and Chapter I. Verified in the Harvard University copy digitized by Google for the Internet Archive.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Christian D. Larson — American New Thought writer & lecturer. Theme: \"Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/promise-yourself-to-be-so-strong-that-nothing-can-disturb/"},{"slug":"quality-is-not-an-act-it-is-a-habit","q":"Quality is not an act, it is a habit","n":"quality is not an act it is a habit","c":"disputed","real":"Will Durant","credited":"Aristotle","credit":"— Will Durant","cite":"Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926), 87. Paraphrasing Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, II.4.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Will Durant — historian & philosopher. Theme: \"Quality is not an act, it is a habit\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/quality-is-not-an-act-it-is-a-habit/"},{"slug":"question-with-boldness-even-the-existence-of-a-god-because","q":"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear","n":"question with boldness even the existence of a god because if there be one he must more approve the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear","c":"verified","real":"Thomas Jefferson","credited":"","credit":"Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, Paris, 10 August 1787","cite":"Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, Paris, 10 August 1787, in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Julian P. Boyd (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press), 12:14–19.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Jefferson — Author of the Declaration of Independence & 3rd U.S. president. Theme: \"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/question-with-boldness-even-the-existence-of-a-god-because/"},{"slug":"raise-your-words-not-voice-it-is-rain-that-grows-flowers","q":"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder","n":"raise your words not voice it is rain that grows flowers not thunder","c":"disputed","real":"Rumi (attribution unsupported)","credited":"Rumi (1207–1273)","credit":"Misattributed to Rumi — no documented source; Rumi scholars do not recognize the line and it appears in none of his works.","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest documented discussion: Ashley Reese, Jezebel, \"Did Tiffany Trump Post a Fake Rumi Quote on Instagram? Jezebel Investigates\" (7 May 2019), quoting Rumi scholars unable to confirm the line.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi) — Persian poet, Islamic scholar & Sufi mystic. Theme: \"Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/raise-your-words-not-voice-it-is-rain-that-grows-flowers/"},{"slug":"read-my-lips-no-new-taxes","q":"Read my lips: no new taxes","n":"read my lips no new taxes","c":"verified","real":"George H.W. Bush","credited":"","credit":"— George H.W. Bush, Republican National Convention acceptance speech, August 18, 1988 (line written by Peggy Noonan)","cite":"George H.W. Bush, acceptance speech, Republican National Convention, New Orleans, 18 August 1988. Line written by speechwriter Peggy Noonan. Documented in \"Read my lips: no new taxes,\" Wikipedia.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of George H.W. Bush — 41st President of the United States (1989–1993). Theme: \"Read my lips: no new taxes\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/read-my-lips-no-new-taxes/"},{"slug":"real-knowledge-is-to-know-the-extent-of-ones-ignorance","q":"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance","n":"real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance","c":"attributed","real":"Confucius","credited":"","credit":"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. — attributed to Confucius; a modern paraphrase of Analects 2.17","cite":"Confucius, The Analects, Book II (Wei Zheng), ch. 17, trans. James Legge (London, 1861): \"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it… this is knowledge.\" The wording \"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance\" is a modern paraphrase of no fixed source.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Confucius — Chinese philosopher and teacher. Theme: \"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/real-knowledge-is-to-know-the-extent-of-ones-ignorance/"},{"slug":"reflect-upon-your-present-blessings-of-which-every-man-has","q":"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some","n":"reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some","c":"verified","real":"Charles Dickens","credited":"","credit":"Charles Dickens, \"A Christmas Dinner,\" Sketches by Boz (1836)","cite":"Charles Dickens, \"A Christmas Dinner,\" in Sketches by Boz, First Series (London: John Macrone, 1836). First published as \"Christmas Festivities\" in Bell's Life in London, December 1835.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Charles Dickens — English novelist & social critic. Theme: \"Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/reflect-upon-your-present-blessings-of-which-every-man-has/"},{"slug":"religion-is-regarded-by-the-common-people-as-true-by-the","q":"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful","n":"religion is regarded by the common people as true by the wise as false and by rulers as useful","c":"disputed","real":"Edward Gibbon","credited":"Seneca","credit":"Adapted from Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I, ch. II (1776). Popularly misattributed to Seneca; no Seneca source exists.","cite":"Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. I, ch. II (London: Strahan & Cadell, 1776). Popular \"common people / wise / rulers\" wording is a later paraphrase; no source exists in Seneca.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Edward Gibbon — English historian · author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Theme: \"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/religion-is-regarded-by-the-common-people-as-true-by-the/"},{"slug":"resentment-is-like-drinking-poison-and-then-hoping-it-will","q":"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies","n":"resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — a modern recovery-era proverb","credited":"Nelson Mandela","credit":"Contrary to popular belief, Nelson Mandela did not write \"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.\" It is a modern proverb that evolved through recovery and self-help writing in the 1980s–90s; Quote Investigator finds no Mandela source for it.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Resentment Is Like Taking Poison and Waiting for the Other Person To Die,\" QuoteInvestigator.com, 19 August 2017; with Bert Ghezzi, The Angry Christian (Ann Arbor: Servant Books, 1980) cited as an early strong match.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Nelson Mandela — South African anti-apartheid leader & president. Theme: \"Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/resentment-is-like-drinking-poison-and-then-hoping-it-will/"},{"slug":"resolve-to-be-tender-with-the-young-compassionate-with-the","q":"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","n":"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","c":"disputed","real":"Lloyd Shearer","credited":"Gautama Buddha","credit":"Actually Lloyd Shearer (\"Walter Scott\"), Parade magazine, 30 December 1973 — not Buddha","cite":"Walter Scott [Lloyd Shearer], New Year’s resolutions, Parade magazine (30 December 1973); traced in Garson O’Toole, \"Resolve To Be Tender with the Young and Compassionate with the Aged,\" Quote Investigator (22 December 2014).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Lloyd Shearer — American journalist & celebrity columnist. Theme: \"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\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/resolve-to-be-tender-with-the-young-compassionate-with-the/"},{"slug":"science-and-everyday-life-cannot-and-should-not-be-separated","q":"Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated","n":"science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated","c":"verified","real":"Rosalind Franklin","credited":"","credit":"Rosalind Franklin, letter to her father, 1940 (quoted in Brenda Maddox, \"Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA,\" 2002)","cite":"Brenda Maddox, Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (New York: HarperCollins, 2002), 60–61, quoting Franklin's 1940 letter to her father Ellis Franklin.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Rosalind Franklin — chemist & X-ray crystallographer. Theme: \"Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/science-and-everyday-life-cannot-and-should-not-be-separated/"},{"slug":"science-is-organized-knowledge-wisdom-is-organized-life","q":"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life","n":"science is organized knowledge wisdom is organized life","c":"disputed","real":"Will Durant","credited":"Immanuel Kant","credit":"Not Immanuel Kant. \"Science is organized knowledge\" is Herbert Spencer's (1854); the combined line is Will Durant's, from The Story of Philosophy, written while paraphrasing Kant. — Quotle.info","cite":"Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926), \"Kant and German Idealism\" chapter; first half after Herbert Spencer, \"The Art of Education,\" The North British Review (May 1854).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Will Durant — American historian & popular philosopher. Theme: \"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/science-is-organized-knowledge-wisdom-is-organized-life/"},{"slug":"science-is-the-great-antidote-to-the-poison-of-enthusiasm","q":"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition","n":"science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition","c":"verified","real":"Adam Smith","credited":"","credit":"Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776), Book V, Chapter I, Part III, Article III. Verified at quotle.info","cite":"Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776. Book V, chap. 1, pt. 3, art. 3 (\"Of the Expence of the Institutions for the Instruction of People of all Ages\"), vol. 2.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Adam Smith — Scottish moral philosopher & political economist. Theme: \"Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/science-is-the-great-antidote-to-the-poison-of-enthusiasm/"},{"slug":"seize-the-day-trusting-as-little-as-possible-in-the-future","q":"Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future","n":"seize the day trusting as little as possible in the future","c":"verified","real":"Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)","credited":"","credit":"Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future. — Horace, Odes 1.11 (23 BC)","cite":"Horace. Odes (Carmina), Book 1, Ode 11, line 8. 23 BC. Latin: \"carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) — Roman lyric poet under Augustus. Theme: \"Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/seize-the-day-trusting-as-little-as-possible-in-the-future/"},{"slug":"service-to-others-is-the-rent-you-pay-for-your-room-here-on","q":"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth","n":"service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (documented by 1917); embraced by Muhammad Ali","credited":"Muhammad Ali","credit":"Attributed to Muhammad Ali, who embraced the line — but it is an older, ownerless proverb documented anonymously by 1917.","cite":"Earliest documented as an anonymous inscription over a hospital doorway in India, quoted in The American Journal of Nursing 18 (November 1917): 167; chronology of variants compiled in Barry Popik, \"Service is the rent we pay to live on this earth,\" BarryPopik.com. Muhammad Ali's use is recorded by the Muhammad Ali Center and reported in his memoir The Soul of a Butterfly (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Muhammad Ali — World heavyweight champion, activist and humanitarian. Theme: \"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/service-to-others-is-the-rent-you-pay-for-your-room-here-on/"},{"slug":"shall-we-make-a-new-rule-of-life-from-tonight-always-to-try","q":"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?","n":"shall we make a new rule of life from tonight always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary","c":"verified","real":"J. M. Barrie","credited":"","credit":"J. M. Barrie, The Little White Bird (1902), ch. 4","cite":"J. M. Barrie, The Little White Bird (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1902), ch. 4, \"A Night-Piece.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of J. M. Barrie — Scottish novelist & playwright, creator of Peter Pan. Theme: \"Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/shall-we-make-a-new-rule-of-life-from-tonight-always-to-try/"},{"slug":"she-cant-take-much-more-of-this-captain","q":"She can't take much more of this, Captain!","n":"she cant take much more of this captain","c":"disputed","real":"Norman Spinrad","credited":"Montgomery Scott (\"Scotty\"), played by James Doohan","credit":"Spock: \"Deflector shields at full power. They can't take much more of this.\" — Star Trek, \"The Doomsday Machine\" (1967), teleplay by Norman Spinrad. Scotty never said \"She can't take much more of this, Captain.\"","cite":"Norman Spinrad, \"The Doomsday Machine,\" Star Trek, season 2, episode 6, directed by Marc Daniels, aired October 20, 1967, on NBC. Dialogue confirmed against the episode transcript at chakoteya.net and against the Misattributed section of Wikiquote's Star Trek: The Original Series page.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Norman Spinrad — American science-fiction novelist, essayist & Star Trek teleplay writer. Theme: \"She can't take much more of this, Captain!\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/she-cant-take-much-more-of-this-captain/"},{"slug":"show-me-a-hero-and-ill-write-you-a-tragedy","q":"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy","n":"show me a hero and ill write you a tragedy","c":"verified","real":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","credited":"","credit":"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up (1945)","cite":"Fitzgerald, F. Scott. “The Notebooks.” In The Crack-Up, edited by Edmund Wilson. New York: New Directions Publishing, 1945.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of F. Scott Fitzgerald — American novelist & short-story writer. Theme: \"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/show-me-a-hero-and-ill-write-you-a-tragedy/"},{"slug":"silence-at-the-proper-season-is-wisdom-and-better-than-any","q":"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech","n":"silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech","c":"verified","real":"Plutarch","credited":"","credit":"Plutarch (attrib.), Moralia — \"The Education of Children\" §14, trans. A. R. Shilleto (Bohn's Classical Library, 1898)","cite":"Plutarch. \"The Education of Children\" (De liberis educandis), §14. In Plutarch's Morals: Ethical Essays, translated by Arthur Richard Shilleto. Bohn's Classical Library. London: George Bell & Sons, 1898. Compare F. C. Babbitt, trans., Moralia, Vol. I, Loeb Classical Library 197 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Plutarch — Greek biographer, essayist & Delphic priest. Theme: \"Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/silence-at-the-proper-season-is-wisdom-and-better-than-any/"},{"slug":"silence-is-a-source-of-great-strength","q":"Silence is a source of great strength","n":"silence is a source of great strength","c":"disputed","real":"John Heider","credited":"Lao Tzu","credit":"John Heider, The Tao of Leadership (1985); often misattributed to Lao Tzu","cite":"John Heider, The Tao of Leadership: Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching Adapted for a New Age (Atlanta: Humanics New Age, 1985). Original line: \"Silence is a great source of strength\"; the popular \"Silence is a source of great strength\" is a reworded, re-attributed variant.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of John Heider — American clinical psychologist & Human Potential Movement figure. Theme: \"Silence is a source of great strength\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/silence-is-a-source-of-great-strength/"},{"slug":"simplicity-simplicity-simplicity-i-say-let-your-affairs-be","q":"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand","n":"simplicity simplicity simplicity i say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand","c":"verified","real":"Henry David Thoreau","credited":"","credit":"Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), \"Where I Lived, and What I Lived For\"","cite":"Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854), chapter \"Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, naturalist & Transcendentalist. Theme: \"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/simplicity-simplicity-simplicity-i-say-let-your-affairs-be/"},{"slug":"some-people-feel-the-rain-others-just-get-wet","q":"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet","n":"some people feel the rain others just get wet","c":"disputed","real":"Roger Miller","credited":"Bob Marley","credit":"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet. — most likely Roger Miller (used on a 1972 TV special), not Bob Marley; per Quote Investigator","cite":"Earliest documented in a review of Roger Miller's ABC television special, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, 31 December 1972, as compiled by Quote Investigator, \"Some People Feel the Rain. Others Just Get Wet,\" 21 September 2012.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Roger Miller — American country singer-songwriter. Theme: \"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/some-people-feel-the-rain-others-just-get-wet/"},{"slug":"sometimes-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar","q":"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar","n":"sometimes a cigar is just a cigar","c":"disputed","real":"Sigmund Freud","credited":"Sigmund Freud","credit":"Apocryphal — attributed to Sigmund Freud, but no evidence he said it. Earliest trace: a 1950 footnote in the journal Psychiatry, over a decade after his death.","cite":"Alan C. Elms, \"Apocryphal Freud: Sigmund Freud's Most Famous 'Quotations' and Their Actual Sources,\" Annual of Psychoanalysis 29 (2001): 83–104; earliest attestation in Allen Wheelis, \"The Place of Action in Personality Change,\" Psychiatry 13, no. 2 (1950): 139 n.9.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Sigmund Freud — Austrian neurologist & founder of psychoanalysis. Theme: \"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/sometimes-a-cigar-is-just-a-cigar/"},{"slug":"sometimes-i-sit-and-think-and-sometimes-i-just-sit","q":"Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit","n":"sometimes i sit and think and sometimes i just sit","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous — an old Maine fisherman","credited":"A. A. Milne","credit":"Anonymous American folk saying, first recorded in the Boston Record, February 1905 (not A. A. Milne).","cite":"\"Sometimes I sit and think, and then again I just sit.\" Anonymous, quoted from the Boston Record, reprinted in U.S. newspapers, February 1905; popularized by William Gunning King's cartoon in Punch, 24 October 1906. Earliest documented in Garson O'Toole, \"Sometimes I Sits and Thinks, and Sometimes I Just Sits,\" Quote Investigator, 29 August 2018.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Anonymous (American folk saying) — U.S. newspaper humor, popularized by Punch (1906). Theme: \"Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/sometimes-i-sit-and-think-and-sometimes-i-just-sit/"},{"slug":"sometimes-you-will-never-know-the-value-of-a-moment-until","q":"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory","n":"sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory","c":"disputed","real":"Georges Duhamel","credited":"Dr. Seuss","credit":"Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain (La Possession du monde, 1919), trans. Eleanor Stimson Brooks","cite":"Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Domain (La Possession du monde, 1919), trans. Eleanor Stimson Brooks (New York: The Century Co., 1919), Part VII (The Shelter of Life), IV.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Georges Duhamel — French novelist, poet & army surgeon; Prix Goncourt 1918; Académie française. Theme: \"Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/sometimes-you-will-never-know-the-value-of-a-moment-until/"},{"slug":"somewhere-something-incredible-is-waiting-to-be-known","q":"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known","n":"somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known","c":"disputed","real":"Sharon Begley","credited":"Carl Sagan","credit":"not Carl Sagan. Written by reporter Sharon Begley as the closing line of \"Seeking Other Worlds,\" a profile of Sagan in Newsweek, 15 August 1977, p. 53. Sagan's estate confirms he never wrote or spoke the words. Via quotle.info","cite":"David Gelman with Sharon Begley, Dewey Gram, and Evert Clark, \"Seeking Other Worlds,\" Newsweek 90 (15 August 1977): 53. Earliest documented appearance; the closing sentence is the reporters' kicker, printed without quotation marks, and is not a quotation of Carl Sagan. Origin established by Garson O'Toole, \"Quote Origin: Somewhere, Something Incredible Is Waiting To Be Known,\" Quote Investigator, 18 March 2013.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Sharon Begley — American science journalist, Newsweek. Theme: \"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/somewhere-something-incredible-is-waiting-to-be-known/"},{"slug":"spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child","q":"Spare the rod and spoil the child","n":"spare the rod and spoil the child","c":"disputed","real":"Samuel Butler","credited":"The Bible","credit":"Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part II (1664) — not the Bible","cite":"Samuel Butler, Hudibras, The Second Part (London, 1664), Canto I. Sentiment derived from Proverbs 13:24 (King James Version, 1611).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Samuel Butler — English poet & satirist. Theme: \"Spare the rod and spoil the child\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child/"},{"slug":"speak-softly-and-carry-a-big-stick","q":"Speak softly and carry a big stick","n":"speak softly and carry a big stick","c":"verified","real":"Theodore Roosevelt","credited":"","credit":"Theodore Roosevelt, letter to Henry L. Sprague, 26 January 1900 (also his Minnesota State Fair speech, 2 September 1901)","cite":"Theodore Roosevelt to Henry L. Sprague, 26 January 1900, Theodore Roosevelt Papers, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; the line was later delivered publicly in \"National Duties,\" address at the Minnesota State Fair, 2 September 1901.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Theodore Roosevelt — 26th President of the United States. Theme: \"Speak softly and carry a big stick\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/speak-softly-and-carry-a-big-stick/"},{"slug":"spread-love-everywhere-you-go-let-no-one-ever-come-to-you","q":"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier","n":"spread love everywhere you go let no one ever come to you without leaving happier","c":"attributed","real":"Mother Teresa","credited":"","credit":"Mother Teresa (attributed — the popular wording is a truncation of \"leaving better and happier\")","cite":"Mother Teresa, quoted in John Templeton, Worldwide Laws of Life: 200 Eternal Spiritual Principles (Templeton Foundation Press, 1998), 448; see also Wikiquote, \"Mother Teresa,\" sourced section.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Mother Teresa — Catholic nun & missionary; founder of the Missionaries of Charity. Theme: \"Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/spread-love-everywhere-you-go-let-no-one-ever-come-to-you/"},{"slug":"start-where-you-are-use-what-you-have-do-what-you-can","q":"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can","n":"start where you are use what you have do what you can","c":"disputed","real":"Squire Bill Widener","credited":"Arthur Ashe","credit":"widely credited to Arthur Ashe, but no source in his work has ever been produced, and the wording was in print before he was born in 1943. The oldest documented version is Squire Bill Widener's, quoted in Theodore Roosevelt's 1913 autobiography: \"Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.\" — via quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented form: Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (1913), quoting Squire Bill Widener — \"Do what you can, with what you've got, where you are.\" The three-part wording popularly credited to Arthur Ashe has no documented source in his published work.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Squire Bill Widener — farmer quoted by Theodore Roosevelt, 1913. Theme: \"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/start-where-you-are-use-what-you-have-do-what-you-can/"},{"slug":"stay-hungry-stay-foolish","q":"Stay hungry, stay foolish","n":"stay hungry stay foolish","c":"disputed","real":"Stewart Brand","credited":"Steve Jobs","credit":"'Stay hungry. Stay foolish.' — Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Epilog, back cover (October 1974); later quoted and credited by Steve Jobs, Stanford commencement, 2005.","cite":"Stewart Brand, ed., Whole Earth Epilog: Access to Tools (Menlo Park, CA: Point/Portola Institute, October 1974), back cover.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Stewart Brand — writer, editor and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog. Theme: \"Stay hungry, stay foolish\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/stay-hungry-stay-foolish/"},{"slug":"stopping-advertising-to-save-money-is-like-stopping-your","q":"Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time","n":"stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (US advertising & trade press, c. 1908–1910)","credited":"Henry Ford","credit":"Not verified as Henry Ford. An anonymous advertising-trade proverb documented 1908–1910, popularized by Kin Hubbard's \"Abe Martin\" in 1916. Source: Barry Popik, barrypopik.com — via Quotle.info","cite":"Barry Popik, \"The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time,\" barrypopik.com. Earliest advertising form cited from N.A.R.D. Notes (28 April 1910); cigar-ad antecedent 1908; \"Abe Martin\" (Kin Hubbard), 1916.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry Ford — American industrialist · founder of the Ford Motor Company. Theme: \"Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/stopping-advertising-to-save-money-is-like-stopping-your/"},{"slug":"strategy-without-tactics-is-the-slowest-route-to-victory","q":"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat","n":"strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat","c":"disputed","real":"Sun Tzu","credited":"Sun Tzu","credit":"Misattributed to Sun Tzu — the line appears in no translation of The Art of War; earliest documented trace is 2002 (per Wikiquote).","cite":"\"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory…\" Misattributed to Sun Tzu; not found in any translation of The Art of War. Earliest documented use in Google Books, 2002. See \"Sun Tzu (Misattributed),\" Wikiquote.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Sun Tzu — Chinese general, strategist & author of The Art of War. Theme: \"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/strategy-without-tactics-is-the-slowest-route-to-victory/"},{"slug":"success-consists-of-going-from-failure-to-failure-without","q":"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm","n":"success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm","c":"disputed","real":"Origin unknown (an anonymous maxim)","credited":"Winston Churchill","credit":"Anonymous saying, misattributed to Winston Churchill — earliest documented anonymously in 1953 (per Quote Investigator).","cite":"Earliest documented in David Guy Powers, How to Say a Few Words (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1953), 109, where the saying is presented anonymously; investigated in Garson O'Toole, \"Success Is Going from Failure to Failure Without Losing Your Enthusiasm,\" Quote Investigator, June 28, 2014.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Winston Churchill — British prime minister, statesman & Nobel laureate in Literature. Theme: \"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/success-consists-of-going-from-failure-to-failure-without/"},{"slug":"success-does-not-consist-in-never-making-blunders-but-in","q":"Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time","n":"success does not consist in never making blunders but in never making the same one a second time","c":"disputed","real":"Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)","credited":"George Bernard Shaw","credit":"Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), first printed February 1872 — not George Bernard Shaw.","cite":"Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw), \"Success don't konsist in never making blunders…,\" earliest documented in The Daily State Journal (Alexandria, VA), February 1872; per Quote Investigator, \"Success Don't Konsist in Never Making Blunders…,\" March 29, 2019.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw) — American humorist & lecturer. Theme: \"Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/success-does-not-consist-in-never-making-blunders-but-in/"},{"slug":"success-is-going-from-failure-to-failure-without-losing","q":"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm","n":"success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (anonymous origin)","credited":"Winston Churchill","credit":"Anonymous saying (earliest documented 1953); popularly misattributed to Winston Churchill","cite":"Anonymous, quoted in David Guy Powers, How to Say a Few Words (New York: Doubleday, 1953); earliest documented instance per Garson O'Toole, Quote Investigator, \"Success Is Going from Failure to Failure Without Losing Your Enthusiasm,\" 28 June 2014.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Winston Churchill — British statesman, orator & author · the quote is misattributed to him. Theme: \"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/success-is-going-from-failure-to-failure-without-losing/"},{"slug":"success-is-no-accident-it-is-hard-work-perseverance","q":"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, and sacrifice","n":"success is no accident it is hard work perseverance learning and sacrifice","c":"attributed","real":"Pelé","credited":"","credit":"Attributed to Pelé","cite":"Attribution to Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento). Earliest documented in online quote collections c. 2013–2014; posted by Pelé's verified X (Twitter) account, 22 July 2014. No primary published work confirmed.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Pelé — Brazilian footballer · three-time World Cup winner. Theme: \"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, and sacrifice\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/success-is-no-accident-it-is-hard-work-perseverance/"},{"slug":"success-is-not-final-failure-is-not-fatal-it-is-the-courage","q":"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts","n":"success is not final failure is not fatal it is the courage to continue that counts","c":"disputed","real":"Origin unknown (not Churchill)","credited":"Winston Churchill","credit":"Misattributed to Winston Churchill. The line appears nowhere in Churchill's canon; its earliest full form is a 1938 Budweiser advertisement, and the Churchill credit only surfaced in the 1960s. Origin unknown. Source: Quote Investigator (2013); International Churchill Society.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Success Is Never Final and Failure Never Fatal. It's Courage That Counts,\" September 3, 2013. Earliest full-form attestation: Budweiser (Anheuser-Busch) advertisement, 1938. Not found in Churchill's canon.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Winston Churchill — British Prime Minister, statesman & Nobel laureate in Literature. Theme: \"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/success-is-not-final-failure-is-not-fatal-it-is-the-courage/"},{"slug":"success-is-to-be-measured-not-so-much-by-the-position-one","q":"Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles overcome","n":"success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles overcome","c":"verified","real":"Booker T. Washington","credited":"","credit":"Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery (1901), ch. II — first published in The Outlook, 10 November 1900.","cite":"Booker T. Washington, \"Up from Slavery: An Autobiography\" (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1901), ch. II, 39; first published in \"The Outlook,\" 10 November 1900, 654.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Booker T. Washington — Educator, orator & founder of Tuskegee Institute. Theme: \"Success is to be measured not so much by the position one has reached as by the obstacles overcome\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/success-is-to-be-measured-not-so-much-by-the-position-one/"},{"slug":"success-usually-comes-to-those-who-are-too-busy-to-be","q":"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it","n":"success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — falsely credited to Thoreau","credited":"Henry David Thoreau","credit":"Misattributed to Henry David Thoreau — not found in his works; a modern saying of unknown origin.","cite":"The Walden Woods Project, \"The Henry D. Thoreau Mis-Quotations Page,\" walden.org, accessed 8 July 2026 (lists the line as a mid-20th-century misquotation absent from Thoreau's works).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, naturalist & Transcendentalist. Theme: \"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/success-usually-comes-to-those-who-are-too-busy-to-be/"},{"slug":"talent-does-what-it-can-genius-does-what-it-must","q":"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must","n":"talent does what it can genius does what it must","c":"disputed","real":"Robert Bulwer-Lytton ('Owen Meredith')","credited":"Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873)","credit":"Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can. —Robert Bulwer-Lytton ('Owen Meredith'), Chronicles and Characters, 1868","cite":"Robert Bulwer-Lytton ['Owen Meredith'], \"Last Words,\" in Chronicles and Characters, vol. 2 (1868), 302; first printed in The Cornhill Magazine (November 1860), 516.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Robert Bulwer-Lytton — Poet 'Owen Meredith' · Viceroy of India. Theme: \"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/talent-does-what-it-can-genius-does-what-it-must/"},{"slug":"talent-hits-a-target-no-one-else-can-hit-genius-hits-a","q":"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see","n":"talent hits a target no one else can hit genius hits a target no one else can see","c":"disputed","real":"Arthur Schopenhauer","credited":"The viral one-liner","credit":"The man of talent is like the marksman who hits a mark the others cannot hit; the man of genius is like the marksman who hits a mark they cannot even see to. — Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea, vol. 3, ch. 31 \"On Genius\" (trans. Haldane & Kemp, 1909; originally Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, vol. 2, 1844). The popular \"hits a target no one else can see\" version is a modern paraphrase. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea, vol. 3, trans. R. B. Haldane and J. Kemp, 6th ed. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1909), ch. 31, \"On Genius.\" Originally published as Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung, vol. 2, Ergänzungen zum dritten Buch, ch. 31, \"Vom Genie\" (1844).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Arthur Schopenhauer — German philosopher of will and pessimism. Theme: \"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/talent-hits-a-target-no-one-else-can-hit-genius-hits-a/"},{"slug":"tell-em-what-youre-going-to-tell-em-next-tell-em-next-tell","q":"Tell 'em what you're going to tell 'em; next, tell 'em; next, tell 'em what you told 'em","n":"tell em what youre going to tell em next tell em next tell em what you told em","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — an anonymous preacher","credited":"Aristotle","credit":"Misattributed to Aristotle. Earliest documented use: an anonymous preacher quoted in the Northern Daily Mail (Durham, England), 1908. Per Quote Investigator.","cite":"\"Three Parts of a Sermon,\" Northern Daily Mail (Durham, England), 1908, as documented in Garson O'Toole, \"Tell 'Em What You're Going To Tell 'Em…,\" Quote Investigator, 15 August 2017.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Aristotle — Ancient Greek philosopher · founder of formal rhetoric & logic. Theme: \"Tell 'em what you're going to tell 'em; next, tell 'em; next, tell 'em what you told 'em\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/tell-em-what-youre-going-to-tell-em-next-tell-em-next-tell/"},{"slug":"tell-me-and-i-forget-teach-me-and-i-may-remember-involve-me","q":"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn","n":"tell me and i forget teach me and i may remember involve me and i learn","c":"disputed","real":"Xunzi (Xun Kuang)","credited":"Benjamin Franklin","credit":"Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but there is no evidence he said it. The saying is an anonymous 20th-century proverb that evolved from an older Chinese-philosophy tradition rooted in the Xunzi. — Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented ancestor: Xunzi, \"Ruxiao,\" trans. Homer H. Dubs, The Works of Hsüntze (London: Arthur Probsthain, 1928). Modern three-part wording first credited to Franklin in Jack C. Richards & Theodore S. Rodgers, Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching (Cambridge University Press, 1986).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Xunzi (Xun Kuang) — Chinese Confucian philosopher. Theme: \"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I may remember. Involve me and I learn\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/tell-me-and-i-forget-teach-me-and-i-may-remember-involve-me/"},{"slug":"tell-me-what-is-it-you-plan-to-do-with-your-one-wild-and","q":"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?","n":"tell me what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life","c":"verified","real":"Mary Oliver","credited":"","credit":"Tell me, what is it you plan to do / with your one wild and precious life? —Mary Oliver, \"The Summer Day,\" House of Light (Beacon Press, 1990). In copyright — permission required for commercial or published use.","cite":"Oliver, Mary. \"The Summer Day.\" House of Light. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Mary Oliver — American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner. Theme: \"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/tell-me-what-is-it-you-plan-to-do-with-your-one-wild-and/"},{"slug":"that-brain-of-mine-is-something-more-than-merely-mortal-as","q":"That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show","n":"that brain of mine is something more than merely mortal as time will show","c":"verified","real":"Ada Lovelace","credited":"","credit":"That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show — Ada Lovelace, letter to Charles Babbage, 5 July 1843 (British Library, Add MSS 37192, fol. 349). Verified at quotle.info","cite":"Ada Lovelace to Charles Babbage, Wednesday, 5 July [1843], British Library, Additional MSS 37192, fol. 349; transcribed in Dorothy Stein, Ada: A Life and a Legacy (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985), 110.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Ada Lovelace — English mathematician · Charles Babbage's collaborator. Theme: \"That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/that-brain-of-mine-is-something-more-than-merely-mortal-as/"},{"slug":"that-is-happiness-to-be-dissolved-into-something-complete","q":"That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great","n":"that is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great","c":"verified","real":"Willa Cather","credited":"","credit":"Willa Cather, My Ántonia (1918), Book I, Ch. II","cite":"Willa Cather, My Ántonia (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1918), Book I, Chapter II.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Willa Cather — American novelist & Pulitzer winner. Theme: \"That is happiness: to be dissolved into something complete and great\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/that-is-happiness-to-be-dissolved-into-something-complete/"},{"slug":"thats-one-small-step-for-man-one-giant-leap-for-mankind","q":"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind","n":"thats one small step for man one giant leap for mankind","c":"verified","real":"Neil Armstrong","credited":"","credit":"Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 lunar-surface transmission, 20 July 1969 (NASA transcript)","cite":"Neil Armstrong, remarks on first stepping onto the lunar surface, Apollo 11, 20 July 1969 (10:56 p.m. EDT), as recorded in NASA's Apollo 11 transcript, \"One Small Step.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Neil Armstrong — Apollo 11 commander & first human on the Moon. Theme: \"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/thats-one-small-step-for-man-one-giant-leap-for-mankind/"},{"slug":"the-aim-of-art-is-to-represent-not-the-outward-appearance","q":"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance","n":"the aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things but their inward significance","c":"disputed","real":"Will Durant","credited":"Aristotle","credit":"Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (1926) — his paraphrase of Aristotle, not Aristotle's own words","cite":"Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926), ch. II, \"Aristotle and Greek Science,\" sec. VI, \"Psychology and the Nature of Art.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Will Durant — American historian & philosopher. Theme: \"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-aim-of-art-is-to-represent-not-the-outward-appearance/"},{"slug":"the-arc-of-the-moral-universe-is-long-but-it-bends-toward","q":"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice","n":"the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice","c":"disputed","real":"Theodore Parker","credited":"Martin Luther King Jr.","credit":"Theodore Parker, \"Of Justice and the Conscience,\" Ten Sermons of Religion (1853) — paraphrased; popularized by Martin Luther King Jr. from 1958","cite":"Theodore Parker, \"Of Justice and the Conscience,\" in Ten Sermons of Religion (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, 1853). Concise wording attested by 1918; popularized by Martin Luther King Jr. from 1958.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Theodore Parker — American Unitarian minister & abolitionist. Theme: \"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-arc-of-the-moral-universe-is-long-but-it-bends-toward/"},{"slug":"the-ballot-is-stronger-than-the-bullet","q":"The ballot is stronger than the bullet","n":"the ballot is stronger than the bullet","c":"attributed","real":"Abraham Lincoln","credited":"","credit":"The ballot is stronger than the bullet. — attributed to Abraham Lincoln (Bloomington \"Lost Speech,\" 1856; the exact wording survives only in Henry Clay Whitney's 1896 reconstruction, which scholars reject)","cite":"Abraham Lincoln, \"Lost Speech,\" Bloomington, Illinois, May 29, 1856, as reconstructed by Henry Clay Whitney in McClure's Magazine (September 1896) — a reconstruction rejected by the editors of Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953). Compare Lincoln's authentic fragment, c. 1857.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Abraham Lincoln — 16th President of the United States. Theme: \"The ballot is stronger than the bullet\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-ballot-is-stronger-than-the-bullet/"},{"slug":"the-best-and-most-beautiful-things-in-the-world-cannot-be","q":"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched","n":"the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched","c":"verified","real":"Helen Keller","credited":"","credit":"Helen Keller, The Story of My Life (1903), from her letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks, 8 June 1891 — original wording: \"cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.\"","cite":"Helen Keller, The Story of My Life (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903), letter to the Rev. Phillips Brooks, 8 June 1891.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Helen Keller — American author, disability-rights activist & lecturer. Theme: \"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-best-and-most-beautiful-things-in-the-world-cannot-be/"},{"slug":"the-best-argument-against-democracy-is-a-five-minute","q":"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter","n":"the best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter","c":"disputed","real":"Winston Churchill","credited":"Winston Churchill","credit":"Misattributed to Winston Churchill. No documented source exists; the earliest known instance is an unsourced 1992 Usenet post, 27 years after his death. — Quotle.info","cite":"No primary source exists. Earliest documented instance: Michael A. Chary, Usenet post, rec.arts.comics.misc, 13 August 1992 (unsourced), per Quote Investigator, \"Quote Origin: The Best Argument Against Democracy Is a Five-Minute Talk with the Average Voter,\" 10 July 2026.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Winston Churchill — British prime minister, statesman & author. Theme: \"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-best-argument-against-democracy-is-a-five-minute/"},{"slug":"the-best-government-is-that-which-governs-least","q":"The best government is that which governs least","n":"the best government is that which governs least","c":"disputed","real":"The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (John L. O'Sullivan, ed.)","credited":"Thomas Jefferson","credit":"Not Thomas Jefferson. The exact wording \"The best government is that which governs least\" first appeared as a motto in the United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1837); Henry David Thoreau used a variant in Civil Disobedience (1849). Monticello lists the Jefferson attribution as spurious.","cite":"\"Introduction,\" The United States Magazine, and Democratic Review 1, no. 1 (1837): 1–15. Variant popularized in Henry David Thoreau, \"Resistance to Civil Government\" (\"Civil Disobedience\"), Aesthetic Papers (Boston, 1849).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John L. O'Sullivan & the Democratic Review — ed. John L. O'Sullivan (1813–1895). Theme: \"The best government is that which governs least\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-best-government-is-that-which-governs-least/"},{"slug":"the-best-revenge-is-massive-success","q":"The best revenge is massive success","n":"the best revenge is massive success","c":"disputed","real":"Frank Sinatra","credited":"Frank Sinatra","credit":"Attributed to Frank Sinatra, but unsourced — no interview, recording, or book documents it, and it is also credited to Les Brown. Its ancestor is the 1640 proverb \"Living well is the best revenge\" (George Herbert).","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest documented ancestor: George Herbert, \"Living well is the best revenge,\" in Outlandish Proverbs (London, 1640), as traced by Quote Investigator (2 Sept. 2018). The \"massive success\" wording circulates unsourced under Frank Sinatra's name and, separately, Les Brown's.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Frank Sinatra — American singer & actor, the archetypal comeback star. Theme: \"The best revenge is massive success\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-best-revenge-is-massive-success/"},{"slug":"the-best-time-to-plan-a-book-is-while-youre-doing-the-dishes","q":"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes","n":"the best time to plan a book is while youre doing the dishes","c":"attributed","real":"Agatha Christie","credited":"","credit":"attributed to Agatha Christie, but not her wording. The line began as a columnist's paraphrase in the Detroit Free Press, March 1954. Christie's own documented words: \"I've gotten others walking, or washing up the dishes\" (Parade, December 1974). Verified by quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in Laurena Pringle's column, Detroit Free Press, March 1954, as an indirect paraphrase (\"Writer Agatha Christie suggests that the best time to plan a book is while you're washing the dishes\"); reprinted as a standalone attributed filler quotation in The Indiana Gazette, March 1955, and the Detroit Free Press, February 1962. Christie's own first-person phrasing appears in The New York Times, October 1966, and Parade Magazine, December 1974. Paper trail assembled by Garson O'Toole, Quote Investigator, \"Quote Origin: I Got My Plots in the Tub…,\" 31 July 2017.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Agatha Christie — English crime novelist & playwright. Theme: \"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-best-time-to-plan-a-book-is-while-youre-doing-the-dishes/"},{"slug":"the-best-time-to-plant-a-tree-was-20-years-ago-the-second","q":"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now","n":"the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago the second best time is now","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (American, by 1967)","credited":"Confucius","credit":"Anonymous (American saying documented by 1967); popularly but wrongly credited to Confucius. Source: Quote Investigator.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Gregory F. Sullivan), \"The Best Time To Plant a Tree Was 30 Years Ago, and the Second Best Time To Plant a Tree Is Now,\" Quote Investigator, December 29, 2021, citing The Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ohio), March 19, 1967.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Confucius — Chinese philosopher & teacher (Kong Fuzi). Theme: \"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-best-time-to-plant-a-tree-was-20-years-ago-the-second/"},{"slug":"the-best-way-out-is-always-through","q":"The best way out is always through","n":"the best way out is always through","c":"verified","real":"Robert Frost","credited":"","credit":"The best way out is always through. —Robert Frost, \"A Servant to Servants,\" North of Boston (1914)","cite":"Frost, Robert. \"A Servant to Servants.\" In North of Boston. London: David Nutt, 1914.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Robert Frost — American poet, four-time Pulitzer Prize winner. Theme: \"The best way out is always through\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-best-way-out-is-always-through/"},{"slug":"the-best-way-to-predict-the-future-is-to-create-it","q":"The best way to predict the future is to create it","n":"the best way to predict the future is to create it","c":"disputed","real":"Alan Kay","credited":"Peter Drucker","credit":"Often credited to Peter Drucker, but unsourced. The maxim is Alan Kay's (“The best way to predict the future is to invent it,” 1971), rooted in Dennis Gabor's 1963 Inventing the Future. — via Quotle.info","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"We Cannot Predict the Future, But We Can Invent It,\" September 27, 2012, tracing Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future (London: Secker & Warburg; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1963) and Alan Kay's 1971-dated maxim; Drucker attribution first documented 1986.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Alan Kay — American computer scientist · Xerox PARC, Smalltalk & the personal computer · 2003 Turing Award. Theme: \"The best way to predict the future is to create it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-best-way-to-predict-the-future-is-to-create-it/"},{"slug":"the-best-way-to-predict-the-future-is-to-invent-it","q":"The best way to predict the future is to invent it","n":"the best way to predict the future is to invent it","c":"disputed","real":"Alan Kay","credited":"Peter Drucker","credit":"Alan Kay, coined c. 1971 at Xerox PARC (often misattributed to Peter Drucker). The idea traces to Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future, 1963.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"We Cannot Predict the Future, But We Can Invent It,\" 27 September 2012, citing Dennis Gabor, Inventing the Future (London: Secker & Warburg, 1963) and Alan Kay's c. 1971 reformulation.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Alan Kay — American computer scientist · Xerox PARC pioneer. Theme: \"The best way to predict the future is to invent it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-best-way-to-predict-the-future-is-to-invent-it/"},{"slug":"the-big-lesson-in-life-is-never-be-scared-of-anyone-or","q":"The big lesson in life is never be scared of anyone or anything","n":"the big lesson in life is never be scared of anyone or anything","c":"attributed","real":"Frank Sinatra","credited":"","credit":"Frank Sinatra, as documented in Bill Zehme, The Way You Wear Your Hat (1997)","cite":"Bill Zehme, The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin' (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), quoting Frank Sinatra; cross-listed in Wikiquote's sourced material for Frank Sinatra.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Frank Sinatra — American singer & actor · Hoboken, New Jersey. Theme: \"The big lesson in life is never be scared of anyone or anything\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-big-lesson-in-life-is-never-be-scared-of-anyone-or/"},{"slug":"the-biggest-adventure-you-can-take-is-to-live-the-life-of","q":"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams","n":"the biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams","c":"verified","real":"Oprah Winfrey","credited":"","credit":"Oprah Winfrey, \"What I Know For Sure\" column, O, The Oprah Magazine (original wording: \"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.\")","cite":"Oprah Winfrey, \"What I Know For Sure,\" O, The Oprah Magazine (early 2000s); reproduced as \"What Oprah Knows for Sure About Life's Biggest Adventure,\" oprah.com. Original wording: \"The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Oprah Winfrey — American talk-show host, producer & founder of O, The Oprah Magazine. Theme: \"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-biggest-adventure-you-can-take-is-to-live-the-life-of/"},{"slug":"the-children-now-love-luxury-they-have-bad-manners-contempt","q":"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise","n":"the children now love luxury they have bad manners contempt for authority they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise","c":"disputed","real":"Kenneth John Freeman","credited":"Socrates","credit":"Not Socrates. This line is a modern paraphrase of Kenneth John Freeman, Schools of Hellas (1907), p. 74 — Freeman's own summary of ancient complaints about the young, never a quotation of Socrates.","cite":"Kenneth John Freeman, Schools of Hellas: An Essay on the Practice and Theory of Ancient Greek Education from 600 to 300 B.C. (London: Macmillan & Co., 1907), 74. Misattribution traced in Quote Investigator, \"Misbehaving Children in Ancient Times,\" 1 May 2010.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Kenneth John Freeman — Cambridge classicist · author of Schools of Hellas (1907). Theme: \"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-children-now-love-luxury-they-have-bad-manners-contempt/"},{"slug":"the-coldest-winter-i-ever-spent-was-a-summer-in-san","q":"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco","n":"the coldest winter i ever spent was a summer in san francisco","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — an evolving anonymous joke (ancestor: James Quin)","credited":"Mark Twain","credit":"Misattributed to Mark Twain — he never wrote it. An anonymous joke descended from actor James Quin's 1700s quip; Twain only repeated Quin's version about Paris.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent Was a Summer in San Francisco,\" QuoteInvestigator.com, 30 November 2011; cf. Wordorigins.org, \"the coldest winter … San Francisco.\" Ancestral quip: James Quin, recorded in Horace Walpole's letter of July 1789.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of James Quin — English stage actor · the ancestral coldest-winter quip. Theme: \"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-coldest-winter-i-ever-spent-was-a-summer-in-san/"},{"slug":"the-constitution-is-not-an-instrument-for-the-government-to","q":"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people","n":"the constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people","c":"disputed","real":"Patrick Henry","credited":"Patrick Henry","credit":"Misattributed to Patrick Henry — no authentic source; earliest known appearance 1997.","cite":"Earliest documented (misattributed) in James D. Nichols and Robert S. Papovich, Freedom's End: Conspiracy in Oklahoma (1997), 55, per Barry Popik; no authentic Patrick Henry source exists.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Patrick Henry — American Revolutionary orator & Anti-Federalist. Theme: \"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-constitution-is-not-an-instrument-for-the-government-to/"},{"slug":"the-creator-has-an-inordinate-fondness-for-beetles","q":"The Creator has an inordinate fondness for beetles","n":"the creator has an inordinate fondness for beetles","c":"disputed","real":"J.B.S. Haldane","credited":"Charles Darwin","credit":"Attributed to J.B.S. Haldane (not Charles Darwin); earliest record G.E. Hutchinson, The American Naturalist, 1959 — described there as \"possibly apocryphal.\"","cite":"Earliest documented in G. Evelyn Hutchinson, \"Homage to Santa Rosalia, or Why Are There So Many Kinds of Animals?\" The American Naturalist 93, no. 870 (May–June 1959): 145–159. Attributed to J.B.S. Haldane; described as \"possibly apocryphal.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of J.B.S. Haldane — British-Indian geneticist & evolutionary biologist. Theme: \"The Creator has an inordinate fondness for beetles\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-creator-has-an-inordinate-fondness-for-beetles/"},{"slug":"the-credit-belongs-to-the-man-who-is-actually-in-the-arena","q":"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat","n":"the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood who strives valiantly who errs who comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming but who does actually strive to do the deeds who knows great enthusiasms the great devotions who spends himself in a worthy cause who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat","c":"verified","real":"Theodore Roosevelt","credited":"","credit":"Theodore Roosevelt, \"Citizenship in a Republic,\" address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 April 1910.","cite":"Theodore Roosevelt, \"Citizenship in a Republic,\" address delivered at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 April 1910.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Theodore Roosevelt — 26th U.S. President, soldier, naturalist & author. Theme: \"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-credit-belongs-to-the-man-who-is-actually-in-the-arena/"},{"slug":"the-customer-is-always-right","q":"The customer is always right","n":"the customer is always right","c":"disputed","real":"Marshall Field","credited":"Harry Gordon Selfridge","credit":"Not coined by Harry Gordon Selfridge. The earliest documented use of \"the customer is always right\" (Boston newspapers, September 1905) credits Chicago retailer Marshall Field, and Quote Investigator calls the true origin uncertain. Selfridge — Field's former employee — helped popularize the slogan in London but is not its proven author.","cite":"Earliest documented in Boston newspaper articles about Marshall Field, September 1905; see Garson O'Toole, \"The Customer Is Always Right,\" Quote Investigator, 6 October 2015.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Marshall Field — Chicago department-store magnate; mentor to Harry Gordon Selfridge. Theme: \"The customer is always right\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-customer-is-always-right/"},{"slug":"the-darker-the-night-the-brighter-the-stars-the-deeper-the","q":"The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!","n":"the darker the night the brighter the stars the deeper the grief the closer is god","c":"disputed","real":"Apollon Maykov","credited":"Fyodor Dostoevsky","credit":"Apollon Maykov, \"Ne govori, chto net spasenya\" (1878) — not Dostoevsky.","cite":"Apollon Maykov, \"Не говори, что нет спасенья\" (1878), from the cycle \"Из Аполлодора Гностика\"; Russian text at Wikisource. The English wording is an anonymous translation.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Apollon Maykov — Russian lyric poet. Theme: \"The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-darker-the-night-the-brighter-the-stars-the-deeper-the/"},{"slug":"the-day-science-begins-to-study-non-physical-phenomena-it","q":"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence","n":"the day science begins to study non physical phenomena it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown","credited":"Nikola Tesla","credit":"Attributed to Nikola Tesla — but unsourced; found in no documented Tesla work. Origin unknown.","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest documented appearances are undated web aggregators (Goodreads, AZQuotes); the line is absent from Wikiquote's Nikola Tesla entry and flagged \"pending to verify\" by the Open Tesla Research archive.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Nikola Tesla — Serbian-American inventor & electrical engineer. Theme: \"The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-day-science-begins-to-study-non-physical-phenomena-it/"},{"slug":"the-deep-critical-thinker-has-become-the-misfit-of-the","q":"The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world. This is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people","n":"the deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world this is not a coincidence to maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual the sage the philosopher the savant before their ideas awaken people","c":"disputed","real":"Carl Jung (credited, not verified)","credited":"Carl Jung","credit":"Unverified — widely credited to Carl Jung, but absent from his documented works; treat as an unsourced modern attribution.","cite":"No documented source in the works of C. G. Jung; earliest traceable appearances are undated social-media posts. Listed as an unsourced attribution in \"Carl Jung,\" Wikiquote.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Carl Jung — Swiss psychiatrist & founder of analytical psychology. Theme: \"The deep critical thinker has become the misfit of the world. This is not a coincidence. To maintain order and control you must isolate the intellectual, the sage, the philosopher, the savant before their ideas awaken people\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-deep-critical-thinker-has-become-the-misfit-of-the/"},{"slug":"the-definition-of-insanity-is-doing-the-same-thing-over-and","q":"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results","n":"the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (12-step recovery fellowships)","credited":"Benjamin Franklin","credit":"Anonymous 12-step recovery saying (Al-Anon / Narcotics Anonymous, c. 1981) — often misattributed to Benjamin Franklin and Albert Einstein","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Insanity Is Doing the Same Thing Over and Over Again and Expecting Different Results,\" earliest documented in an Al-Anon meeting and a Narcotics Anonymous pamphlet, 1981; cf. Rita Mae Brown, Sudden Death (New York: Bantam, 1983).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Anonymous (12-step recovery fellowships) — Al-Anon, A.A. & Narcotics Anonymous recovery communities. Theme: \"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-definition-of-insanity-is-doing-the-same-thing-over-and/"},{"slug":"the-degree-of-civilization-in-a-society-can-be-judged-by","q":"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons","n":"the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons","c":"disputed","real":"No verified author — misattributed to Dostoevsky","credited":"Fyodor Dostoevsky","credit":"Misattributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky — the line appears in none of his works and first surfaced in English in the later 1960s as a prison-reform motto.","cite":"Ilya Vinitsky, \"Dostoyevsky Misprisioned: 'The House of the Dead' and American Prison Literature,\" Los Angeles Review of Books; see also Wikiquote, \"Fyodor Dostoevsky\" (Misattributed). No such line appears in Dostoevsky's works.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Fyodor Dostoevsky — Russian novelist. Theme: \"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-degree-of-civilization-in-a-society-can-be-judged-by/"},{"slug":"the-democracy-will-cease-to-exist-when-you-take-away-from","q":"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not","n":"the democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown","credited":"Thomas Jefferson","credit":"NOT Thomas Jefferson. This exact quotation has not been found in any of Jefferson's writings. Its earliest known appearance in print is John Galt [pseudonym], Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics as if Freedom Mattered (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986), p. 312, where it is credited to Jefferson without a source. The Thomas Jefferson Foundation's Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia lists it among Spurious Quotations.","cite":"John Galt [pseud.], Dreams Come Due: Government and Economics as if Freedom Mattered (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986), 312 — where the line is credited to Jefferson without a source. The genuine parallel text: Thomas Jefferson, \"Addition to Note for Destutt de Tracy's Treatise on Political Economy,\" [ca. 18 May 1816], in The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, 10:65–66.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Jefferson — Third U.S. president and author of the Declaration of Independence. Theme: \"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-democracy-will-cease-to-exist-when-you-take-away-from/"},{"slug":"the-die-is-cast","q":"The die is cast","n":"the die is cast","c":"attributed","real":"Julius Caesar","credited":"","credit":"The die is cast — attributed to Julius Caesar at the crossing of the Rubicon, 49 BC, as recorded in Latin by Suetonius (Life of the Deified Julius 32: \"iacta alea est\"). Plutarch reports Caesar spoke Greek, in the imperative: \"let the die be cast.\"","cite":"Suetonius. The Lives of the Caesars, \"The Deified Julius,\" 32. Trans. J. C. Rolfe. Loeb Classical Library, 1913. Cf. Plutarch, Life of Caesar 32, for the Greek ἀ ί ύ .","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Julius Caesar — Roman general, statesman & dictator. Theme: \"The die is cast\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-die-is-cast/"},{"slug":"the-ends-justify-the-means","q":"The ends justify the means","n":"the ends justify the means","c":"disputed","real":"Niccolò Machiavelli","credited":"Niccolò Machiavelli","credit":"Niccolò Machiavelli never wrote \"the ends justify the means\" — Wikiquote lists it as his most common misquotation. The phrase appears nowhere in The Prince; its nearest literary ancestor is Ovid's \"exitus acta probat\" (Heroides II.85). — Quotle.info","cite":"Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, trans. W. K. Marriott (London: J. M. Dent, 1908), ch. XVIII — the nearest genuine passage; the exact proverb is not in the text. Classical antecedent: Ovid, Heroides II.85, \"exitus acta probat.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Niccolò Machiavelli — Florentine diplomat & author of The Prince. Theme: \"The ends justify the means\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-ends-justify-the-means/"},{"slug":"the-first-draft-of-anything-is-garbage","q":"The first draft of anything is garbage","n":"the first draft of anything is garbage","c":"disputed","real":"Ernest Hemingway","credited":"Internet quote-aggregator sites","credit":"Not Hemingway's exact words -- closest documented version is \"The first draft of anything is shit,\" from a 1984 memoir. Source: Quotle.info","cite":"Samuelson, Arnold. With Hemingway: A Year in Key West and Cuba. New York: Random House, 1984 — earliest documented print source (via Quote Investigator's citation research), recording a 1934 remark; no source uses the wording \"garbage.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Ernest Hemingway — American novelist, short-story writer & journalist. Theme: \"The first draft of anything is garbage\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-first-draft-of-anything-is-garbage/"},{"slug":"the-further-a-society-drifts-from-truth-the-more-it-will","q":"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it","n":"the further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it","c":"disputed","real":"Selwyn Duke","credited":"George Orwell","credit":"Selwyn Duke, \"Stopping Truth at the Border,\" RenewAmerica, 6 May 2009 — often misattributed to George Orwell.","cite":"Selwyn Duke, \"Stopping Truth at the Border: Banning Michael Savage from Britain,\" RenewAmerica, 6 May 2009. Earliest documented appearance of the line.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Selwyn Duke — originated the line in 2009. Theme: \"The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-further-a-society-drifts-from-truth-the-more-it-will/"},{"slug":"the-future-belongs-to-those-who-believe-in-the-beauty-of","q":"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams","n":"the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (anonymous)","credited":"Eleanor Roosevelt","credit":"Anonymous (commonly misattributed to Eleanor Roosevelt); earliest documented 1978","cite":"Earliest documented in a 1978 classified advertisement, The Surrey Leader (Surrey, British Columbia); origin anonymous. See Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"The Future Belongs to Those Who Believe in the Beauty of Their Dreams,\" 10 February 2018.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Unknown (anonymous saying) — authorship unknown. Theme: \"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-future-belongs-to-those-who-believe-in-the-beauty-of/"},{"slug":"the-future-belongs-to-those-who-prepare-for-it-today","q":"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today","n":"the future belongs to those who prepare for it today","c":"disputed","real":"Malcolm X","credited":"Malcolm X (as popularly quoted)","credit":"Paraphrase of Malcolm X. His documented 1964 words: \"Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.\" — OAAU Founding Rally, June 28, 1964.","cite":"Malcolm X. Address at the founding rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (reading the 'Statement of Basic Aims and Objectives,' III, Education), Audubon Ballroom, New York, 28 June 1964. Collected in By Any Means Necessary: Speeches, Interviews, and a Letter by Malcolm X (New York: Pathfinder Press, 1970).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Malcolm X — U.S. civil-rights leader & Muslim minister. Theme: \"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-future-belongs-to-those-who-prepare-for-it-today/"},{"slug":"the-future-rewards-those-who-press-on-i-dont-have-time-to","q":"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on","n":"the future rewards those who press on i dont have time to feel sorry for myself i dont have time to complain im going to press on","c":"verified","real":"Barack Obama","credited":"","credit":"Barack Obama, Remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Phoenix Awards Dinner, Washington, D.C., 24 September 2011. Note: the widely shared version omits the four sentences about jobs, equality, children and struggling families. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Obama, Barack. \"Remarks by the President at Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Phoenix Awards Dinner.\" Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., 24 September 2011. The White House, Office of the Press Secretary. Archived at obamawhitehouse.archives.gov.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Barack Obama — 44th President of the United States (2009–2017). Theme: \"The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-future-rewards-those-who-press-on-i-dont-have-time-to/"},{"slug":"the-future-starts-today-not-tomorrow","q":"The future starts today, not tomorrow","n":"the future starts today not tomorrow","c":"disputed","real":"Pope John Paul II","credited":"Pope John Paul II","credit":"The future starts today, not tomorrow. —widely attributed to Pope John Paul II, but unsourced: the line appears nowhere in his documented writings or addresses.","cite":"No primary source located. Popularly circulated via quotation aggregators (BrainyQuote, Goodreads, AZQuotes, Quotefancy); absent from the Vatican archive of John Paul II's writings and addresses and from Wikiquote. Earliest documented usage: unestablished.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Pope John Paul II — Pope, 1978–2005 · born Karol Wojtyła, Poland. Theme: \"The future starts today, not tomorrow\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-future-starts-today-not-tomorrow/"},{"slug":"the-general-who-advances-without-coveting-fame-and-retreats","q":"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom","n":"the general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign is the jewel of the kingdom","c":"verified","real":"Sun Tzu","credited":"","credit":"Sun Tzu, The Art of War, Ch. X (Terrain) §24, trans. Lionel Giles (1910)","cite":"Sun Tzu. Sun Tzŭ on the Art of War. Translated by Lionel Giles. London: Luzac & Co., 1910. Chapter X (Terrain), 24.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Sun Tzu — Chinese general, strategist & author of The Art of War. Theme: \"The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-general-who-advances-without-coveting-fame-and-retreats/"},{"slug":"the-government-of-the-united-states-is-not-in-any-sense","q":"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion","n":"the government of the united states is not in any sense founded on the christian religion","c":"disputed","real":"Treaty of Tripoli, Article 11 (English text by Joel Barlow)","credited":"George Washington","credit":"Treaty of Tripoli (1796–97), Article 11 — English text drafted by Joel Barlow; ratified under President John Adams. Not a quotation of George Washington.","cite":"\"Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796,\" Art. 11, English text prepared by Joel Barlow, ratified 1797. In The Barbary Treaties 1786–1816, Avalon Project, Yale Law School.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Joel Barlow — American poet & diplomat; drafted the English Treaty of Tripoli. Theme: \"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-government-of-the-united-states-is-not-in-any-sense/"},{"slug":"the-great-gift-of-human-beings-is-that-we-have-the-power-of","q":"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy","n":"the great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy","c":"attributed","real":"Meryl Streep","credited":"","credit":"Meryl Streep, interview in Cosmopolitan (May 1991)","cite":"Meryl Streep, interview by Michael Segell, \"Cosmopolitan,\" May 1991, as documented in the Center for Building a Culture of Empathy 'Culture of Empathy Builder: Meryl Streep' reference.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Meryl Streep — American actress. Theme: \"The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-great-gift-of-human-beings-is-that-we-have-the-power-of/"},{"slug":"the-great-tragedy-of-science-the-slaying-of-a-beautiful","q":"The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact","n":"the great tragedy of science the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact","c":"disputed","real":"Thomas Henry Huxley","credited":"Charles Darwin","credit":"Thomas Henry Huxley, \"Biogenesis and Abiogenesis,\" Presidential Address to the British Association (1870); Collected Essays, Vol. VIII, p. 229. Often misattributed to Charles Darwin.","cite":"Thomas Henry Huxley, \"Biogenesis and Abiogenesis\" (Presidential Address, British Association for the Advancement of Science, 14 September 1870), in Collected Essays, Vol. VIII (London: Macmillan, 1894), p. 229; first published in Nature, 15 September 1870.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Henry Huxley — English biologist, comparative anatomist & essayist. Theme: \"The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-great-tragedy-of-science-the-slaying-of-a-beautiful/"},{"slug":"the-greatest-thing-in-the-world-is-to-know-how-to-belong-to","q":"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself","n":"the greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself","c":"verified","real":"Michel de Montaigne","credited":"","credit":"— Michel de Montaigne, \"Of Solitude,\" Essays (trans. Donald M. Frame, 1958)","cite":"Michel de Montaigne, \"Of Solitude,\" in The Complete Essays of Montaigne, trans. Donald M. Frame (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1958). French original: \"La plus grande chose du monde, c'est de savoir être à soi,\" Essais, Book I.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Michel de Montaigne — French Renaissance philosopher, inventor of the essay. Theme: \"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-greatest-thing-in-the-world-is-to-know-how-to-belong-to/"},{"slug":"the-greatest-victory-is-that-which-requires-no-battle","q":"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle","n":"the greatest victory is that which requires no battle","c":"attributed","real":"Sun Tzu","credited":"","credit":"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle. — attributed to Sun Tzu; a modern paraphrase of The Art of War, chapter 3, which actually reads \"supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.\"","cite":"Sun Tzu, The Art of War, trans. Lionel Giles (London: Luzac & Co., 1910), ch. 3, \"Attack by Stratagem.\" The popular sentence is a modern paraphrase; Giles renders the passage as \"supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Sun Tzu — Chinese general and strategist. Theme: \"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-greatest-victory-is-that-which-requires-no-battle/"},{"slug":"the-greatest-way-to-live-with-honor-in-this-world-is-to-be","q":"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be","n":"the greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be","c":"disputed","real":"Socrates","credited":"Socrates","credit":"The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be. —Socrates, as reported in Xenophon's Memorabilia (Book II, ch. 6), trans. Edward Bysshe, 1712","cite":"Xenophon. The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates. Translated by Edward Bysshe. London, 1712. Book II, ch. 6 (Memorabilia II.6.39): \"the shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world is to be in reality what we would appear to be.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Socrates — Athenian philosopher, as portrayed by Xenophon & Plato. Theme: \"The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-greatest-way-to-live-with-honor-in-this-world-is-to-be/"},{"slug":"the-greatest-weapon-against-stress-is-our-ability-to-choose","q":"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another","n":"the greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another","c":"disputed","real":"William James","credited":"William James","credit":"Misattributed to William James — no source in his works; an anonymous modern paraphrase.","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest documented as an uncited attribution to William James on quotation-aggregator sites; attribution challenged in Jasper Reid, response to \"Is this a genuine William James quote?\", AskPhilosophers, question 5380.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of William James — American philosopher & psychologist, \"father of American psychology\". Theme: \"The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-greatest-weapon-against-stress-is-our-ability-to-choose/"},{"slug":"the-greatness-of-a-man-is-not-in-how-much-wealth-he","q":"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively","n":"the greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively","c":"disputed","real":"Bob Marley (attribution unsupported)","credited":"Bob Marley","credit":"Unsourced; commonly attributed to Bob Marley but tied to no documented source","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest documented attributions appear on quote-aggregation sites and social media; Wikipedia's sister project Wikiquote lists the line under \"Unsourced\" on Talk:Bob Marley (accessed 2026).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Bob Marley — Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter & cultural icon. Theme: \"The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-greatness-of-a-man-is-not-in-how-much-wealth-he/"},{"slug":"the-greatness-of-a-nation-and-its-moral-progress-can-be","q":"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated","n":"the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated","c":"disputed","real":"David Friedrich Strauss","credited":"Mahatma Gandhi","credit":"widely attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, but the sentence appears nowhere in his 98-volume Collected Works and has not been found credited to him before 1980, 32 years after his death. The thought traces to David Friedrich Strauss, The Old Faith and the New, trans. Mathilde Blind (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1873), vol. 2, §71, p. 59: \"The manner in which a nation in the aggregate treats animals, is one chief measure of its real civilization.\"","cite":"David Friedrich Strauss, The Old Faith and the New: A Confession, trans. Mathilde Blind (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1873), vol. 2, 71, p. 59. The wording popularly attributed to Gandhi is not documented in any of his works; the earliest attribution to Gandhi located by Wikiquote is Doris Potter, letter to the editor, The Gazette (Montreal), 18 March 1980, p. 8.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of David Friedrich Strauss — German Protestant theologian & biblical scholar. Theme: \"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-greatness-of-a-nation-and-its-moral-progress-can-be/"},{"slug":"the-heart-has-its-reasons-which-reason-knows-not","q":"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not","n":"the heart has its reasons which reason knows not","c":"verified","real":"Blaise Pascal","credited":"","credit":"Blaise Pascal, Pensées, fr. 277 — popular English rendering; W. F. Trotter's translation (1904; Harvard Classics, 1910) reads \"The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.\"","cite":"Pascal, Blaise. \"Section IV: Of the Means of Belief,\" fr. 277. In Pensées, translated by W. F. Trotter (translation first published 1904). Blaise Pascal, The Harvard Classics, vol. 48. New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1910. Originally published in French, Paris, 1670.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Blaise Pascal — French mathematician, physicist & religious philosopher. Theme: \"The heart has its reasons which reason knows not\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-heart-has-its-reasons-which-reason-knows-not/"},{"slug":"the-horse-is-here-to-stay-but-the-automobile-is-only-a","q":"The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty — a fad","n":"the horse is here to stay but the automobile is only a novelty a fad","c":"disputed","real":"An unnamed \"leading banker\"","credited":"Henry Ford","credit":"an unnamed \"leading banker,\" advising Horace Rackham against investing in the Ford Motor Company, c. 1903. Not said by Henry Ford. Recorded in Sarah T. Bushnell, The Truth About Henry Ford (Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1922), 55–57.","cite":"Sarah T. Bushnell, The Truth About Henry Ford (Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co., 1922), 55–57. Earliest and only documented appearance; the speaker is identified only as \"a leading banker.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Sarah T. Bushnell — author of The Truth About Henry Ford (Reilly & Lee, 1922). Theme: \"The horse is here to stay, but the automobile is only a novelty — a fad\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-horse-is-here-to-stay-but-the-automobile-is-only-a/"},{"slug":"the-hottest-places-in-hell-are-reserved-for-those-who-in-a","q":"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality","n":"the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality","c":"disputed","real":"Dante Alighieri (falsely credited); popularized by John F. Kennedy","credited":"John F. Kennedy","credit":"Misattributed to Dante Alighieri (and to John F. Kennedy, who popularized it). Not found in Dante's Divine Comedy; earliest documented in Henry Powell Spring, What Is Truth (1944).","cite":"Henry Powell Spring, What Is Truth (1944), as the earliest strongly matching wording; not present in any translation of Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy. Traced in Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"The Hottest Places in Hell Are Reserved for Those Who in a Period of Moral Crisis Maintain Their Neutrality,\" 14 January 2015.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of John F. Kennedy — 35th President of the United States. Theme: \"The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-hottest-places-in-hell-are-reserved-for-those-who-in-a/"},{"slug":"the-impediment-to-action-advances-action-what-stands-in-the","q":"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way","n":"the impediment to action advances action what stands in the way becomes the way","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"","credit":"Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.20, trans. Gregory Hays (Modern Library, 2002).","cite":"Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.20, trans. Gregory Hays (New York: Modern Library, 2002). Original Greek composed c. 170–180 AD.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-impediment-to-action-advances-action-what-stands-in-the/"},{"slug":"the-individual-has-always-had-to-struggle-to-keep-from","q":"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself","n":"the individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe if you try it you will be lonely often and sometimes frightened but no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself","c":"disputed","real":"Rudyard Kipling","credited":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credit":"Rudyard Kipling (as recorded by Arthur Gordon, \"Interview With an Immortal,\" Reader's Digest, July 1959) — not Friedrich Nietzsche","cite":"Arthur Gordon, \"Interview With an Immortal,\" Reader's Digest (July 1959); as documented in Quote Investigator, \"The Individual Has Always Had to Struggle to Keep from Being Overwhelmed by the Tribe,\" 2 March 2026.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Rudyard Kipling — English author & poet · Nobel laureate in Literature, 1907. Theme: \"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-individual-has-always-had-to-struggle-to-keep-from/"},{"slug":"the-journey-of-a-thousand-miles-begins-with-a-single-step","q":"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step","n":"the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step","c":"disputed","real":"Laozi (Lao Tzu)","credited":"Confucius","credit":"Laozi (traditional), Tao Te Ching, ch. 64 — trans. James Legge, 1891. Commonly misattributed to Confucius.","cite":"Laozi, Tao Te Ching, ch. 64, trans. James Legge, in The Sacred Books of the East, vol. 39: The Texts of Tâoism (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891): \"the journey of a thousand li commenced with a single step.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Laozi (Lao Tzu) — Chinese sage, reputed author of the Tao Te Ching. Theme: \"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-journey-of-a-thousand-miles-begins-with-a-single-step/"},{"slug":"the-life-of-the-dead-is-placed-in-the-memory-of-the-living","q":"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living","n":"the life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Tullius Cicero","credited":"","credit":"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living. —Cicero, Ninth Philippic","cite":"Cicero. Philippic IX.5 (§10), delivered 43 BC. Latin: \"Vita enim mortuorum in memoria est posita vivorum.\" Cf. Cicero, Philippics, trans. Walter C. A. Ker, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926): \"the life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Tullius Cicero — Roman statesman, orator and philosopher. Theme: \"The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-life-of-the-dead-is-placed-in-the-memory-of-the-living/"},{"slug":"the-life-so-short-the-craft-so-long-to-learn","q":"The life so short, the craft so long to learn","n":"the life so short the craft so long to learn","c":"verified","real":"Geoffrey Chaucer","credited":"","credit":"Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Fowls (c. 1382), line 1 — modernizing his Middle English \"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,\" itself adapting Hippocrates' Aphorisms.","cite":"Geoffrey Chaucer, \"The Parliament of Fowls\" (c. 1381–1382), line 1, in The Parliament of Fowles (Wikisource); adapting Hippocrates, Aphorisms I.1.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Geoffrey Chaucer — English poet & civil servant, \"Father of English Literature\". Theme: \"The life so short, the craft so long to learn\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-life-so-short-the-craft-so-long-to-learn/"},{"slug":"the-limits-of-my-language-mean-the-limits-of-my-world","q":"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world","n":"the limits of my language mean the limits of my world","c":"verified","real":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","credited":"","credit":"Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921; trans. C. K. Ogden, 1922), proposition 5.6","cite":"Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. C. K. Ogden (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922), prop. 5.6. First published in German in Annalen der Naturphilosophie (1921).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Ludwig Wittgenstein — Austrian-British philosopher of logic & language. Theme: \"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-limits-of-my-language-mean-the-limits-of-my-world/"},{"slug":"the-man-who-does-not-read-has-no-advantage-over-the-man-who","q":"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read","n":"the man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read","c":"disputed","real":"Joseph D. Eggleston Jr.","credited":"Mark Twain","credit":"Disputed — no evidence for Mark Twain. Earliest documented in Joseph D. Eggleston Jr., The Southern Workman (1910); familiar wording anonymous in 1914. Via Quotle.info.","cite":"Joseph D. Eggleston Jr., in The Southern Workman, Vol. 39 (Hampton, VA, 1910); compact wording first printed unattributed in The Dodge Idea (October 1914). Earliest ascription to Mark Twain: Nursing World (October 1945).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Joseph D. Eggleston Jr. — educator, Virginia school superintendent, college president. Theme: \"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-man-who-does-not-read-has-no-advantage-over-the-man-who/"},{"slug":"the-man-who-grasps-principles-can-successfully-select-his","q":"The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble","n":"the man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods the man who tries methods ignoring principles is sure to have trouble","c":"disputed","real":"Harrington Emerson","credited":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credit":"Harrington Emerson (not Ralph Waldo Emerson), first attested 1911; cf. The Twelve Principles of Efficiency, 1912","cite":"Harrington Emerson, quoted as \"Harrison Emmerson\" in The Clothier and Furnisher 78, no. 6 (July 1911): 86; cf. Harrington Emerson, The Twelve Principles of Efficiency (New York: The Engineering Magazine, 1912). Earliest attestation per Quote Investigator (2015).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Harrington Emerson — American efficiency engineer & management consultant. Theme: \"The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-man-who-grasps-principles-can-successfully-select-his/"},{"slug":"the-marvel-of-all-history-is-the-patience-with-which-men","q":"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments","n":"the marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments","c":"disputed","real":"William Edgar Borah","credited":"George Washington","credit":"Often credited to George Washington, but it is spurious — the words are U.S. Senator William E. Borah's (c. 1929).","cite":"Attributed to William E. Borah; documented via George Washington's Mount Vernon, \"Spurious Quotations,\" which credits Borah (Reader's Digest, c. 1929). Not found in Washington's writings.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Edgar Borah — U.S. Senator from Idaho & famed orator. Theme: \"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-marvel-of-all-history-is-the-patience-with-which-men/"},{"slug":"the-mass-of-men-lead-lives-of-quiet-desperation","q":"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation","n":"the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation","c":"verified","real":"Henry David Thoreau","credited":"","credit":"Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854), ch. 1 \"Economy\"","cite":"Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854), ch. 1, \"Economy.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, naturalist & Transcendentalist. Theme: \"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-mass-of-men-lead-lives-of-quiet-desperation/"},{"slug":"the-meaning-of-life-is-to-find-your-gift-the-purpose-of","q":"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away","n":"the meaning of life is to find your gift the purpose of life is to give it away","c":"disputed","real":"David Viscott","credited":"William Shakespeare","credit":"David Viscott, Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times: A Book of Meditations (1993). Not Shakespeare; the popular two-clause version is a later, unattributed rewording.","cite":"David Viscott, Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times: A Book of Meditations (Contemporary Books, 1993). Earliest strong match documented in Quote Investigator, \"Quote Origin: The Purpose of Life Is to Discover Your Gift. The Meaning of Life Is to Give Your Gift Away,\" 16 June 2014.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of David Viscott — American psychiatrist, author & radio host. Theme: \"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-meaning-of-life-is-to-find-your-gift-the-purpose-of/"},{"slug":"the-mind-is-its-own-place-and-in-itself-can-make-a-heaven","q":"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven","n":"the mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of hell a hell of heaven","c":"verified","real":"John Milton","credited":"","credit":"John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 254–255 (1667) — spoken by Satan","cite":"John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 254–255 (London, 1667; rev. 1674).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Milton — English poet & polemicist. Theme: \"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-mind-is-its-own-place-and-in-itself-can-make-a-heaven/"},{"slug":"the-mind-is-like-an-iceberg-it-floats-with-one-seventh-of","q":"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water","n":"the mind is like an iceberg it floats with one seventh of its bulk above water","c":"disputed","real":"Woods Hutchinson (phrasing) & G. Stanley Hall (simile)","credited":"Sigmund Freud","credit":"Not said by Sigmund Freud. The \"one-seventh above water\" wording comes from physician Woods Hutchinson's 1923 Saturday Evening Post article; it was first pinned on Freud in a 1929 New York Herald Tribune profile, and the iceberg-mind simile itself traces to psychologist G. Stanley Hall in 1898. — Quotle.info","cite":"Iceberg-mind simile earliest documented in G. Stanley Hall, \"Some Aspects of the Early Sense of Self,\" American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 9 (1898), p. 393; exact \"one-seventh\" wording in Woods Hutchinson, The Saturday Evening Post (March 17, 1923); first attributed to Freud in William Leon Smyser, \"The Czar of Psychoanalysis,\" New York Herald Tribune (1929), as traced by Quote Investigator (Aug 7, 2024).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of G. Stanley Hall — American psychologist · first president of the American Psychological Association. Theme: \"The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-mind-is-like-an-iceberg-it-floats-with-one-seventh-of/"},{"slug":"the-mind-is-not-a-vessel-to-be-filled-but-a-fire-to-be","q":"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled","n":"the mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled","c":"disputed","real":"Plutarch","credited":"Plutarch (paraphrased)","credit":"Paraphrase of Plutarch, \"On Listening to Lectures\" (Moralia §18)","cite":"Plutarch. \"On Listening to Lectures\" (De recta ratione audiendi), 18. In Moralia, Vol. I, translated by Frank Cole Babbitt, Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Plutarch — Greek biographer, essayist & Middle Platonist. Theme: \"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-mind-is-not-a-vessel-to-be-filled-but-a-fire-to-be/"},{"slug":"the-most-common-way-people-give-up-their-power-is-by","q":"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any","n":"the most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any","c":"attributed","real":"Alice Walker","credited":"","credit":"attributed to Alice Walker. Widely credited to Walker, but no primary source has been identified; the earliest documented citation is William P. Martin, comp., The Best Liberal Quotes Ever (Sourcebooks, 2004), p. 173. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in: William P. Martin, comp., The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2004), 173. No primary Alice Walker source has been identified for this wording.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Alice Walker — American novelist, poet & activist; author of The Color Purple. Theme: \"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-most-common-way-people-give-up-their-power-is-by/"},{"slug":"the-most-dangerous-phrase-in-the-language-is-weve-always","q":"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, we've always done it this way","n":"the most dangerous phrase in the language is weve always done it this way","c":"attributed","real":"Grace Hopper","credited":"","credit":"Attributed to Grace Hopper. Her documented 1976 wording (Computerworld) was \"the most dangerous phrase a DP manager can use is 'We've always done it that way.'\" — the popular version is a later paraphrase.","cite":"Grace Murray Hopper, interview, Computerworld (26 January 1976), p. 9, as documented in Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Quote Origin: The Most Dangerous Phrase Is: 'We've Always Done It That Way,'\" 27 November 2014.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Grace Hopper — U.S. Navy Rear Admiral & computer-science pioneer. Theme: \"The most dangerous phrase in the language is, we've always done it this way\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-most-dangerous-phrase-in-the-language-is-weve-always/"},{"slug":"the-most-important-thing-is-to-enjoy-your-life-to-be-happy","q":"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy","n":"the most important thing is to enjoy your life to be happy","c":"attributed","real":"Audrey Hepburn","credited":"","credit":"Attributed to Audrey Hepburn (unverified — no documented source)","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest documented appearances are on unsourced quotation aggregators (Goodreads, AZQuotes, BrainyQuote, QuoteFancy); the line is absent from Wikiquote's Audrey Hepburn entry and from Quote Investigator as of July 2026.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Audrey Hepburn — Actress & UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Theme: \"The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-most-important-thing-is-to-enjoy-your-life-to-be-happy/"},{"slug":"the-most-terrifying-words-in-the-english-language-are-im","q":"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help","n":"the most terrifying words in the english language are im from the government and im here to help","c":"verified","real":"Ronald Reagan","credited":"","credit":"Ronald Reagan, The President's News Conference, Chicago, August 12, 1986. His exact words: \"I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.\"","cite":"Ronald Reagan, \"The President's News Conference,\" Chicago, Illinois, August 12, 1986, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986; transcript via the American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Ronald Reagan — 40th U.S. President & former Hollywood actor. Theme: \"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-most-terrifying-words-in-the-english-language-are-im/"},{"slug":"the-mountains-are-calling-and-i-must-go","q":"The mountains are calling and I must go","n":"the mountains are calling and i must go","c":"verified","real":"John Muir","credited":"","credit":"The mountains are calling and I must go, and I will work on while I can, studying incessantly. —John Muir, letter to his sister Sarah Muir Galloway, September 3, 1873","cite":"John Muir to Sarah Muir Galloway, 3 September 1873, in William Frederic Badé, ed., The Life and Letters of John Muir, ch. 10 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1923); original manuscript, John Muir Papers, Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Muir — Naturalist, writer & father of the U.S. national parks. Theme: \"The mountains are calling and I must go\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-mountains-are-calling-and-i-must-go/"},{"slug":"the-musicians-play-their-instruments-i-play-the-orchestra","q":"The musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra","n":"the musicians play their instruments i play the orchestra","c":"disputed","real":"Aaron Sorkin","credited":"Steve Jobs","credit":"Not a real Steve Jobs quote — it's a line Aaron Sorkin wrote for the 2015 film \"Steve Jobs.\"","cite":"Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs (screenplay), dir. Danny Boyle (Universal Pictures, 2015); earliest documented appearance of the line. Listed as misattributed to Steve Jobs in Wikiquote, \"Steve Jobs.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Aaron Sorkin — American screenwriter & playwright. Theme: \"The musicians play their instruments. I play the orchestra\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-musicians-play-their-instruments-i-play-the-orchestra/"},{"slug":"the-object-in-life-is-not-to-be-on-the-side-of-the-majority","q":"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane","n":"the object in life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane","c":"disputed","real":"Leo Tolstoy","credited":"Marcus Aurelius","credit":"Attributed to Marcus Aurelius, but not from the Meditations — the wording is a paraphrase from the close of Leo Tolstoy's essay \"Bethink Yourselves!\" (1904), a passage Tolstoy himself signed \"Marcus Aurelius.\"","cite":"Leo Tolstoy, \"Bethink Yourselves!\" (1904), in Recollections and Essays, trans. Aylmer Maude (London: Oxford University Press, 1946), 237 — where the passage is printed as a paraphrase signed \"Marcus Aurelius.\" No corresponding text exists in the Meditations.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Leo Tolstoy — Russian novelist & moral philosopher. Theme: \"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-object-in-life-is-not-to-be-on-the-side-of-the-majority/"},{"slug":"the-only-constant-in-life-is-change","q":"The only constant in life is change","n":"the only constant in life is change","c":"disputed","real":"Heraclitus","credited":"An anonymous modern paraphrase","credit":"is a modern paraphrase, not a quotation from Heraclitus — it appears in no standard translation of his work.","cite":"Heraclitus, Fragment B12 (Diels–Kranz), quoted in Arius Didymus; discussed in Daniel W. Graham, \"Heraclitus,\" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The popular sentence \"the only constant in life is change\" is a modern paraphrase not found in any standard translation.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Heraclitus — Pre-Socratic Greek philosopher of Ephesus. Theme: \"The only constant in life is change\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-only-constant-in-life-is-change/"},{"slug":"the-only-freedom-which-deserves-the-name-is-that-of","q":"The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs","n":"the only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs","c":"verified","real":"John Stuart Mill","credited":"","credit":"John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859), Chapter I. Public domain.","cite":"John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (London: John W. Parker & Son, 1859), Chapter I, \"Introductory.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Stuart Mill — English philosopher, political economist & Member of Parliament. Theme: \"The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-only-freedom-which-deserves-the-name-is-that-of/"},{"slug":"the-only-source-of-knowledge-is-experience","q":"The only source of knowledge is experience","n":"the only source of knowledge is experience","c":"disputed","real":"No verified author","credited":"Albert Einstein","credit":"Misattributed to Albert Einstein; an empiricist maxim distilling John Locke (1689), with wording documented by 1896.","cite":"Earliest documented wording: Arthur J. Pillsbury, \"The Final Word,\" Overland Monthly (November 1896), 595. The maxim distills John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book II, ch. 1. No source in Albert Einstein's writings has been located; see Wikiquote, \"Albert Einstein\" (Misattributed).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Locke — English philosopher, founder of empiricism. Theme: \"The only source of knowledge is experience\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-only-source-of-knowledge-is-experience/"},{"slug":"the-only-thing-necessary-for-the-triumph-of-evil-is-that","q":"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing","n":"the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing","c":"disputed","real":"Origin unknown — long misattributed to Edmund Burke","credited":"John F. Kennedy","credit":"Origin unknown — long misattributed to Edmund Burke. John F. Kennedy quoted it (crediting Burke) in his address to the Canadian Parliament, 17 May 1961.","cite":"John F. Kennedy, \"Address Before the Canadian Parliament in Ottawa,\" 17 May 1961, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961 (Washington: GPO, 1962). Earliest documented discussion of origin: Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil Is that Good Men Do Nothing,\" 4 December 2010.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Edmund Burke — Anglo-Irish statesman & political philosopher. Theme: \"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-only-thing-necessary-for-the-triumph-of-evil-is-that/"},{"slug":"the-only-thing-we-have-to-fear-is-fear-itself","q":"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself","n":"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself","c":"verified","real":"Franklin D. Roosevelt","credited":"","credit":"— Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933","cite":"Roosevelt, Franklin D. \"First Inaugural Address.\" Washington, D.C., March 4, 1933.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Franklin D. Roosevelt — 32nd President of the United States. Theme: \"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-only-thing-we-have-to-fear-is-fear-itself/"},{"slug":"the-only-way-not-to-think-about-money-is-to-have-a-great","q":"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it","n":"the only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it","c":"verified","real":"Edith Wharton","credited":"","credit":"Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth (1905)","cite":"Wharton, Edith. The House of Mirth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905, Book I, Ch. 6.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Edith Wharton — American novelist, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Theme: \"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-only-way-not-to-think-about-money-is-to-have-a-great/"},{"slug":"the-only-way-to-do-great-work-is-to-love-what-you-do","q":"The only way to do great work is to love what you do","n":"the only way to do great work is to love what you do","c":"verified","real":"Steve Jobs","credited":"","credit":"— Steve Jobs, 2005 Stanford Commencement Address","cite":"Jobs, Steve. \"'You've got to find what you love,' Jobs says.\" Commencement address, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 12 June 2005. Published in Stanford Report, 14 June 2005.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Steve Jobs — co-founder & CEO, Apple. Theme: \"The only way to do great work is to love what you do\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-only-way-to-do-great-work-is-to-love-what-you-do/"},{"slug":"the-only-way-to-have-a-friend-is-to-be-one","q":"The only way to have a friend is to be one","n":"the only way to have a friend is to be one","c":"verified","real":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credited":"","credit":"— Ralph Waldo Emerson","cite":"Ralph Waldo Emerson, \"Friendship,\" in Essays: First Series (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1841).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Ralph Waldo Emerson — American essayist, lecturer & poet. Theme: \"The only way to have a friend is to be one\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-only-way-to-have-a-friend-is-to-be-one/"},{"slug":"the-only-way-to-make-sense-out-of-change-is-to-plunge-into","q":"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance","n":"the only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance","c":"verified","real":"Alan Watts","credited":"","credit":"Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety (New York: Pantheon Books, 1951), ch. 3, \"The Great Stream.\"","cite":"Alan W. Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety (New York: Pantheon Books, 1951), chap. 3, \"The Great Stream.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Alan Watts — British-American philosopher & interpreter of Zen for the West. Theme: \"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-only-way-to-make-sense-out-of-change-is-to-plunge-into/"},{"slug":"the-opposite-of-love-is-not-hate-its-indifference","q":"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference","n":"the opposite of love is not hate its indifference","c":"disputed","real":"Wilhelm Stekel","credited":"Not coined by Elie Wiesel","credit":"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. —said by Elie Wiesel (1986), but the formulation is Wilhelm Stekel's, published in 1921","cite":"Earliest documented in Wilhelm Stekel, The Beloved Ego: Foundations of the New Study of the Psyche, trans. Rosalie Gabler (1921); popular wording from Elie Wiesel, interview in U.S. News & World Report (1986). Chronology per Quote Investigator, \"The Opposite of Love Is Not Hate, But Indifference\" (May 21, 2019).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Wilhelm Stekel — Austrian physician & psychoanalyst. Theme: \"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-opposite-of-love-is-not-hate-its-indifference/"},{"slug":"the-past-is-but-the-beginning-of-a-beginning","q":"The past is but the beginning of a beginning","n":"the past is but the beginning of a beginning","c":"verified","real":"H. G. Wells","credited":"","credit":"H.G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future (1902)","cite":"H. G. Wells, The Discovery of the Future (lecture at the Royal Institution, 24 January 1902; London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1902).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of H. G. Wells — English novelist, historian & futurist. Theme: \"The past is but the beginning of a beginning\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-past-is-but-the-beginning-of-a-beginning/"},{"slug":"the-path-to-paradise-begins-in-hell","q":"The path to paradise begins in hell","n":"the path to paradise begins in hell","c":"disputed","real":"Dante Alighieri","credited":"Dante Alighieri","credit":"Often credited to Dante Alighieri, but this exact line appears in no canto or translation of the Divine Comedy — it's a modern paraphrase of the poem's arc, not Dante's words.","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest documented usage is in undated online quotation aggregators (e.g. Goodreads, AZQuotes) crediting Dante Alighieri without citing any canto, translation, or edition of the Divine Comedy.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Dante Alighieri — Florentine poet, author of the Divine Comedy. Theme: \"The path to paradise begins in hell\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-path-to-paradise-begins-in-hell/"},{"slug":"the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword","q":"The pen is mightier than the sword","n":"the pen is mightier than the sword","c":"verified","real":"Edward Bulwer-Lytton","credited":"","credit":"Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy (1839), Act II, Scene II","cite":"Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy: A Play in Five Acts (London: Saunders and Otley, 1839), act 2, sc. 2.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Edward Bulwer-Lytton — English novelist, playwright & Member of Parliament. Theme: \"The pen is mightier than the sword\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-pen-is-mightier-than-the-sword/"},{"slug":"the-people-who-are-trying-to-make-this-world-worse-are-not","q":"The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness","n":"the people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off how can i light up the darkness","c":"disputed","real":"Mark Protosevich & Akiva Goldsman (screenwriters)","credited":"Bob Marley","credit":"Line written for Robert Neville in the film I Am Legend (2007), screenplay by Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman — not a Bob Marley quotation.","cite":"Robert Neville (character), dialogue in I Am Legend, directed by Francis Lawrence, screenplay by Mark Protosevich and Akiva Goldsman (Burbank, CA: Warner Bros. Pictures, 2007). Cataloged as misattributed to Bob Marley by Wikiquote.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Mark Protosevich & Akiva Goldsman — dir. Francis Lawrence · Warner Bros.. Theme: \"The people who are trying to make this world worse are not taking a day off. How can I? Light up the darkness\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-people-who-are-trying-to-make-this-world-worse-are-not/"},{"slug":"the-perfect-is-the-enemy-of-the-good","q":"The perfect is the enemy of the good","n":"the perfect is the enemy of the good","c":"verified","real":"Voltaire","credited":"","credit":"Voltaire, La Bégueule (1772)","cite":"Voltaire. \"La Bégueule, conte moral.\" In Contes en vers. Paris, 1772. Opening lines: \"Dans ses écrits un sage Italien / Dit que le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Voltaire — French Enlightenment writer & philosopher. Theme: \"The perfect is the enemy of the good\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-perfect-is-the-enemy-of-the-good/"},{"slug":"the-perfect-way-is-only-difficult-for-those-who-pick-and","q":"The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease","n":"the perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose do not like do not dislike all will then be clear make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart if you want the truth to stand clear before you never be for or against the struggle between for and against is the minds worst disease","c":"disputed","real":"Jianzhi Sengcan (Third Zen Patriarch); English by Arthur Waley","credited":"Bruce Lee","credit":"Not Bruce Lee. It is the opening of the Hsin Hsin Ming, a 6th-century Zen poem attributed to the Third Patriarch Sengcan, in Arthur Waley's 1954 English translation (in Conze, Buddhist Texts Through the Ages). Bruce Lee copied it into his notes, and it later appeared in his posthumous books.","cite":"Sengcan (attrib.). \"Hsin Hsin Ming: On Trust in the Heart.\" Trans. Arthur Waley. In Buddhist Texts Through the Ages, edited by Edward Conze, 296–298. New York: Philosophical Library, 1954.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Jianzhi Sengcan — Third Patriarch of Chan (Zen) Buddhism. Theme: \"The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-perfect-way-is-only-difficult-for-those-who-pick-and/"},{"slug":"the-person-be-it-gentleman-or-lady-who-has-not-pleasure-in","q":"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid","n":"the person be it gentleman or lady who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid","c":"verified","real":"Jane Austen","credited":"","credit":"Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817), spoken by Henry Tilney","cite":"Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. London: John Murray, 1817 (title page dated 1818), chap. 14.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Jane Austen — English novelist. Theme: \"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-person-be-it-gentleman-or-lady-who-has-not-pleasure-in/"},{"slug":"the-place-where-your-talent-meets-the-worlds-needs-is-the","q":"The place where your talent meets the world's needs is the job God has in mind for you","n":"the place where your talent meets the worlds needs is the job god has in mind for you","c":"disputed","real":"Marcus Bach","credited":"Aristotle","credit":"Not Aristotle. Coined by religious scholar Marcus Bach, documented in a 1954 graduation speech; provisionally credited to Bach by Quote Investigator. — Quotle.info","cite":"Marcus Bach, remarks at a high-school graduation, 1954, as documented in Garson O'Toole, \"The Place Where Your Talent Meets the World's Needs Is the Job God Has in Mind for You,\" Quote Investigator, December 20, 2017.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Bach — American religious scholar, professor & author. Theme: \"The place where your talent meets the world's needs is the job God has in mind for you\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-place-where-your-talent-meets-the-worlds-needs-is-the/"},{"slug":"the-planet-does-not-need-more-successful-people-the-planet","q":"The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds","n":"the planet does not need more successful people the planet desperately needs more peacemakers healers restorers storytellers and lovers of all kinds","c":"disputed","real":"David W. Orr","credited":"Dalai Lama","credit":"David W. Orr, \"What Is Education For?\", In Context no. 27 (Winter 1991) — a paraphrase widely misattributed to the Dalai Lama","cite":"David W. Orr, \"What Is Education For?\" In Context, no. 27 (Winter 1991): 52. Reprinted in Ecological Literacy (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of David W. Orr — American environmentalist & educator · Oberlin College. Theme: \"The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-planet-does-not-need-more-successful-people-the-planet/"},{"slug":"the-power-of-imagination-makes-us-infinite","q":"The power of imagination makes us infinite","n":"the power of imagination makes us infinite","c":"verified","real":"John Muir","credited":"","credit":"John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, ed. Linnie Marsh Wolfe (Houghton Mifflin, 1938), 226 — journal entry of 1 September 1875.","cite":"John Muir, John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir, ed. Linnie Marsh Wolfe (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938), 226; journal entry of 1 September 1875.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of John Muir — Scottish-American naturalist, writer & founder of the Sierra Club. Theme: \"The power of imagination makes us infinite\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-power-of-imagination-makes-us-infinite/"},{"slug":"the-present-is-theirs-the-future-for-which-i-really-worked","q":"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine","n":"the present is theirs the future for which i really worked is mine","c":"verified","real":"Nikola Tesla","credited":"","credit":"Nikola Tesla, quoted in Dragislav L. Petković, \"A Visit to Nikola Tesla,\" Politika (Belgrade), April 1927.","cite":"Nikola Tesla, quoted in Dragislav L. Petković, \"A Visit to Nikola Tesla,\" Politika (Belgrade), April 1927; as quoted in Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time (New York: Touchstone, 2001), 230.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Nikola Tesla — Serbian-American inventor & electrical engineer. Theme: \"The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-present-is-theirs-the-future-for-which-i-really-worked/"},{"slug":"the-price-of-doing-the-same-old-thing-is-far-higher-than","q":"The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change","n":"the price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change","c":"verified","real":"Bill Clinton","credited":"","credit":"Bill Clinton, Address to the Nation on the Economic Program, February 15, 1993 (Oval Office).","cite":"William J. Clinton, \"Address to the Nation on the Economic Program,\" February 15, 1993, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993, Book I (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994); text via The American Presidency Project (UC Santa Barbara).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Bill Clinton — 42nd U.S. President, 1993–2001. Theme: \"The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-price-of-doing-the-same-old-thing-is-far-higher-than/"},{"slug":"the-price-of-freedom-is-eternal-vigilance","q":"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance","n":"the price of freedom is eternal vigilance","c":"disputed","real":"John Philpot Curran (idea) & Wendell Phillips (popular form)","credited":"Thomas Jefferson","credit":"Misattributed to Thomas Jefferson. No evidence he said it; Monticello lists it as spurious. The idea traces to John Philpot Curran (1790) and the popular wording to abolitionist Wendell Phillips (1852).","cite":"John Philpot Curran, speech at the election of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, 10 July 1790 (“the condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance”); modern aphorism popularized in Wendell Phillips, address to the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 28 January 1852. Listed as spurious to Jefferson by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of John Philpot Curran — Irish orator, lawyer & statesman. Theme: \"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-price-of-freedom-is-eternal-vigilance/"},{"slug":"the-problem-with-the-world-is-that-the-intelligent-people","q":"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence","n":"the problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence","c":"disputed","real":"Bertrand Russell","credited":"Charles Bukowski","credit":"Not Charles Bukowski. This is a modern paraphrase of Bertrand Russell, \"The Triumph of Stupidity\" (1933): \"the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt.\"","cite":"Bertrand Russell, \"The Triumph of Stupidity,\" San Francisco Examiner, 10 May 1933; reprinted in Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931–1935. Earliest documented antecedent of the paraphrase popularly mis-credited to Charles Bukowski.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Bertrand Russell — British philosopher, mathematician & Nobel laureate. Theme: \"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-problem-with-the-world-is-that-the-intelligent-people/"},{"slug":"the-purpose-of-life-is-not-to-be-happy-it-is-to-be-useful","q":"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well","n":"the purpose of life is not to be happy it is to be useful to be honorable to be compassionate to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well","c":"disputed","real":"Leo Rosten","credited":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credit":"commonly credited to Ralph Waldo Emerson, but not his. The idea is Leo Rosten's, from \"The Myths by Which We Live,\" The Rotarian, September 1965; this exact wording matches no text by either man, and its earliest documented instance is a 1988 book that already credited Emerson. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Rosten, Leo. \"The Myths by Which We Live.\" The Rotarian 107, no. 3 (September 1965): 32ff. (quote at p. 55). The exact circulating wording matches no Rosten text and is earliest documented in Janet Hagberg and Richard Leider, The Inventurers: Excursions in Life and Career Renewal, 3rd ed. (1988), 105, where it is credited to Ralph Waldo Emerson.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Leo Rosten — American humorist, lexicographer & political scientist. Theme: \"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-purpose-of-life-is-not-to-be-happy-it-is-to-be-useful/"},{"slug":"the-real-tragedy-of-the-poor-is-the-poverty-of-their","q":"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations","n":"the real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations","c":"disputed","real":"Ernest Bevin","credited":"Adam Smith","credit":"NOT Adam Smith. The line appears nowhere in his works. Usually re-credited to Ernest Bevin (1881–1951), but no primary source has ever been located for that either. Origin unknown. Via quotle.info","cite":"No primary source located in the works of Adam Smith or Ernest Bevin. Clearest rebuttal consulted: Sam Bowman, \"Ideas can mean the difference between wealth and poverty,\" Adam Smith Institute blog, adamsmith.org (accessed 15 July 2026), which states that Smith never said it. On the Bevin credit, see Konstanze Spohrer, \"The problem with 'raising aspiration' strategies,\" LSE British Politics and Policy, 9 May 2018.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Ernest Bevin — British trade unionist, wartime Minister of Labour & post-war Foreign Secretary. Theme: \"The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-real-tragedy-of-the-poor-is-the-poverty-of-their/"},{"slug":"the-reasonable-man-adapts-himself-to-the-world-the","q":"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself","n":"the reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself","c":"verified","real":"George Bernard Shaw","credited":"","credit":"George Bernard Shaw, \"Maxims for Revolutionists: Reason,\" in Man and Superman (1903).","cite":"George Bernard Shaw, \"Maxims for Revolutionists: Reason,\" in Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy (London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1903).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of George Bernard Shaw — Irish playwright, critic & Fabian socialist. Theme: \"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-reasonable-man-adapts-himself-to-the-world-the/"},{"slug":"the-robbed-that-smiles-steals-something-from-the-thief","q":"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief","n":"the robbed that smiles steals something from the thief","c":"verified","real":"William Shakespeare","credited":"","credit":"— William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 1, Scene 3 (the Duke of Venice)","cite":"William Shakespeare, Othello, Act 1, Scene 3, in The Norton Shakespeare / Folger Shakespeare Library edition (first printed Quarto 1622; First Folio 1623).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Shakespeare — English playwright & poet. Theme: \"The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-robbed-that-smiles-steals-something-from-the-thief/"},{"slug":"the-sad-truth-is-that-most-evil-is-done-by-people-who-never","q":"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil","n":"the sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil","c":"verified","real":"Hannah Arendt","credited":"","credit":"Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind, vol. 1: Thinking (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978). Original wording: \"The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.\"","cite":"Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind, vol. 1, Thinking (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978), 180.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Hannah Arendt — German-born American political theorist. Theme: \"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-sad-truth-is-that-most-evil-is-done-by-people-who-never/"},{"slug":"the-secret-of-change-is-to-focus-all-of-your-energy-not-on","q":"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new","n":"the secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new","c":"disputed","real":"Dan Millman","credited":"Socrates","credit":"Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior (H J Kramer, 1984), p. 113. Spoken by a fictional character nicknamed \"Socrates\" — not the Greek philosopher.","cite":"Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives (Tiburon, CA: H J Kramer, 1984), 113. First published 1980 by J. P. Tarcher. Origin trace: \"Quote Origin: The Secret of Change Is to Focus All of Your Energy, Not on Fighting the Old, But on Building the New,\" Quote Investigator, 28 May 2013.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Dan Millman — American author, lecturer & former world trampoline champion. Theme: \"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-secret-of-change-is-to-focus-all-of-your-energy-not-on/"},{"slug":"the-secret-to-creativity-is-knowing-how-to-hide-your-sources","q":"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources","n":"the secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources","c":"disputed","real":"C. E. M. Joad","credited":"Coco Chanel","credit":"Misattributed to Coco Chanel. The idea traces to philosopher C. E. M. Joad (1926); the exact modern wording is a 1989 paraphrase first pinned on Einstein. — Quotle.info","cite":"Garson O'Toole, \"The Secret to Creativity Is Knowing How to Hide Your Sources,\" Quote Investigator, 1 June 2014; tracing C. E. M. Joad, The Babbitt Warren (London: Kegan Paul, 1926), as quoted in The New Republic, 9 March 1927.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of C. E. M. Joad — English philosopher & BBC broadcaster. Theme: \"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-secret-to-creativity-is-knowing-how-to-hide-your-sources/"},{"slug":"the-single-biggest-problem-in-communication-is-the-illusion","q":"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place","n":"the single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place","c":"disputed","real":"William H. Whyte","credited":"George Bernard Shaw","credit":"Often credited to George Bernard Shaw, but the line traces to journalist William H. Whyte in Fortune magazine, September 1950 (\"The great enemy of communication is the illusion of it\"). The Shaw attribution first appeared in 1994, with no evidence he ever said it. — Quotle.info","cite":"William H. Whyte, \"Is Anybody Listening?\" Fortune (September 1950). Earliest documented form: \"The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of William H. Whyte — journalist, Fortune editor & urbanist. Theme: \"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-single-biggest-problem-in-communication-is-the-illusion/"},{"slug":"the-soul-becomes-dyed-with-the-color-of-its-thoughts","q":"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts","n":"the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"","credit":"The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 5.16 (trans. Maxwell Staniforth, 1964)","cite":"Marcus Aurelius. Meditations, Book 5.16. Translated by Maxwell Staniforth. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1964.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-soul-becomes-dyed-with-the-color-of-its-thoughts/"},{"slug":"the-stars-dont-look-bigger-but-they-do-look-brighter","q":"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter","n":"the stars dont look bigger but they do look brighter","c":"verified","real":"Sally Ride","credited":"","credit":"Sally Ride, interview at Scholastic's website, 20 November 1998","cite":"Sally Ride, interview at Scholastic's website, 20 November 1998, \"NASA: Challenging the Space Frontier\" (teacher.scholastic.com/space/sts7/interview.htm).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Sally Ride — Physicist & first American woman in space. Theme: \"The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-stars-dont-look-bigger-but-they-do-look-brighter/"},{"slug":"the-supreme-art-of-war-is-to-subdue-the-enemy-without","q":"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting","n":"the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting","c":"verified","real":"Sun Tzu","credited":"","credit":"Sun Tzu, The Art of War (Chapter III), trans. Lionel Giles, 1910 — a popular paraphrase of \"supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.\"","cite":"Sun Tzu. The Art of War. Translated by Lionel Giles. London: Luzac & Co., 1910. Chapter III, \"Attack by Stratagem.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Sun Tzu — Chinese general & strategist. Theme: \"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-supreme-art-of-war-is-to-subdue-the-enemy-without/"},{"slug":"the-test-of-a-first-rate-intelligence-is-the-ability-to","q":"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time","n":"the test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time","c":"verified","real":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","credited":"","credit":"F. Scott Fitzgerald, \"The Crack-Up,\" Esquire, February 1936","cite":"Fitzgerald, F. Scott. \"The Crack-Up.\" Esquire, February 1936. Collected in The Crack-Up, edited by Edmund Wilson (New York: New Directions, 1945).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of F. Scott Fitzgerald — American novelist & essayist, author of The Great Gatsby. Theme: \"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-test-of-a-first-rate-intelligence-is-the-ability-to/"},{"slug":"the-time-to-be-happy-is-now-the-place-to-be-happy-is-here","q":"The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so","n":"the time to be happy is now the place to be happy is here the way to be happy is to make others so","c":"verified","real":"Robert G. Ingersoll","credited":"","credit":"Robert G. Ingersoll, phonograph recording, 1899 (reported in The Junction City Republican, 3 Feb 1899); kindred passage in his 1872 lecture \"The Gods.\"","cite":"Robert G. Ingersoll, phonograph recording, 22 January 1899, reported in The Junction City Republican (Junction City, KS), 3 February 1899; kindred passage in \"The Gods\" (lecture, 1872), The Gods and Other Lectures (Peoria, IL, 1876).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Robert G. Ingersoll — American orator, lawyer & freethinker ('The Great Agnostic'). Theme: \"The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-time-to-be-happy-is-now-the-place-to-be-happy-is-here/"},{"slug":"the-traveler-sees-what-he-sees-the-tourist-sees-what-he-has","q":"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see","n":"the traveler sees what he sees the tourist sees what he has come to see","c":"verified","real":"G.K. Chesterton","credited":"","credit":"G.K. Chesterton, Autobiography (1936), ch. XV \"The Incomplete Traveller\" — original wording: \"The traveller sees what he sees; the tripper sees what he has come to see.\"","cite":"G. K. Chesterton, Autobiography (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1936), chap. 15, \"The Incomplete Traveller.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of G.K. Chesterton — English essayist & novelist. Theme: \"The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-traveler-sees-what-he-sees-the-tourist-sees-what-he-has/"},{"slug":"the-trouble-with-most-people-is-that-they-think-with-their","q":"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears rather than with their minds","n":"the trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears rather than with their minds","c":"disputed","real":"Will Durant","credited":"Will Durant","credit":"Attributed to Will Durant, but unsupported — no primary source has been found in his work; origin of the wording unknown.","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest traceable attributions appear only on undated quote-aggregator websites (e.g., Goodreads, BrainyQuote), none citing a work by Will Durant.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Will Durant — American historian & philosopher. Theme: \"The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears rather than with their minds\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-trouble-with-most-people-is-that-they-think-with-their/"},{"slug":"the-true-measure-of-a-man-is-how-he-treats-someone-who-can","q":"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good","n":"the true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good","c":"disputed","real":"Malcolm Forbes / the Ann Landers columns","credited":"Samuel Johnson","credit":"Not Samuel Johnson. This is a 1970s saying: the earliest close match was credited to publisher Malcolm Forbes in 1972, and the exact \"absolutely no good\" wording spread through Ann Landers' advice columns and the Chicago Tribune by 1978 (per Quote Investigator). It appears nowhere in Johnson's works, letters, or 18th-century biographies.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"You Can Easily Judge the Character of a Man by How He Treats Those Who Can Do Nothing for Him,\" 28 Oct 2011, quoteinvestigator.com. Earliest close match: Malcolm Forbes in Earl Wilson's column, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug 1972; exact \"absolutely no good\" wording, Chicago Tribune, 1978.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Malcolm Forbes — American magazine publisher (Forbes) — earliest credited source of the modern saying. Theme: \"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-true-measure-of-a-man-is-how-he-treats-someone-who-can/"},{"slug":"the-true-objective-of-war-is-peace","q":"The true objective of war is peace","n":"the true objective of war is peace","c":"disputed","real":"James Clavell","credited":"Sun Tzu","credit":"widely attributed to Sun Tzu, but the line appears in no translation of The Art of War. Its documented source is the closing line of James Clavell's foreword to his 1983 edition, which reads \"the true object of war is peace\" — and Clavell presented it in quotation marks as an old saying, without crediting Sun Tzu. Verified via Quotle.info","cite":"Sun Tzu. The Art of War. Translated by Lionel Giles (1910); edited and with a foreword by James Clavell. Foreword copyright © 1983 by James Clavell. E-book edition, Ashland, OR: Blackstone Publishing, 2019. Foreword, final line: \"the true object of war is peace.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of James Clavell — British-American novelist & screenwriter. Theme: \"The true objective of war is peace\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-true-objective-of-war-is-peace/"},{"slug":"the-true-soldier-fights-not-because-he-hates-what-is-in","q":"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him","n":"the true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him but because he loves what is behind him","c":"verified","real":"G.K. Chesterton","credited":"","credit":"'The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.' — G.K. Chesterton (paraphrased from his Illustrated London News column, 14 January 1911)","cite":"Chesterton, G. K. The Illustrated London News, 14 January 1911. (Original wording: \"A real soldier does not fight because he has something that he hates in front of him. He fights because he has something that he loves behind his back.\" The familiar \"true soldier\" line is a later paraphrase.)","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of G.K. Chesterton — English writer & Christian apologist. Theme: \"The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-true-soldier-fights-not-because-he-hates-what-is-in/"},{"slug":"the-truly-creative-mind-in-any-field-is-no-more-than-this-a","q":"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive","n":"the truly creative mind in any field is no more than this a human creature born abnormally inhumanly sensitive","c":"verified","real":"Pearl S. Buck","credited":"","credit":"Pearl S. Buck, \"The Creative Mind at Work,\" lecture, University of Chicago, 17 January 1935","cite":"Pearl S. Buck, \"The Creative Mind at Work,\" William Vaughn Moody Foundation Lecture, University of Chicago, 17 January 1935; text reprinted in Theodore F. Harris, Pearl S. Buck: A Biography, vol. 2 (New York: John Day, 1971).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Pearl S. Buck — American novelist · Pulitzer Prize 1932 · Nobel Prize in Literature 1938. Theme: \"The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-truly-creative-mind-in-any-field-is-no-more-than-this-a/"},{"slug":"the-truth-will-set-you-free-but-first-it-will-make-you","q":"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable","n":"the truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (twelve-step / addiction-recovery tradition)","credited":"James A. Garfield","credit":"Anonymous (twelve-step recovery tradition), often misattributed to James A. Garfield — earliest documented 1978","cite":"\"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable\" — earliest documented in the Syracuse Herald-American (1978); traced by Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off,\" 4 September 2014.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of James A. Garfield — 20th President of the United States. Theme: \"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-truth-will-set-you-free-but-first-it-will-make-you/"},{"slug":"the-unexamined-life-is-not-worth-living","q":"The unexamined life is not worth living","n":"the unexamined life is not worth living","c":"verified","real":"Socrates","credited":"","credit":"Socrates, in Plato’s Apology (38a), 399 BC","cite":"Plato. Apology, 38a. In Plato: Complete Works, edited by John M. Cooper, translated by G. M. A. Grube. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1997.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Socrates — Athenian philosopher. Theme: \"The unexamined life is not worth living\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-unexamined-life-is-not-worth-living/"},{"slug":"the-urge-to-destroy-is-also-a-creative-urge","q":"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge","n":"the urge to destroy is also a creative urge","c":"disputed","real":"Mikhail Bakunin","credited":"Pablo Picasso","credit":"Mikhail Bakunin, \"The Reaction in Germany\" (1842). Popularly paraphrased as \"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge\" and often misattributed to Pablo Picasso.","cite":"Mikhail Bakunin [as \"Jules Elysard\"], \"Die Reaktion in Deutschland. Ein Fragment von einem Franzosen,\" Deutsche Jahrbücher für Wissenschaft und Kunst, nos. 247–51 (October 1842); trans. \"The Reaction in Germany,\" closing line: \"The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too!\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Mikhail Bakunin — Russian revolutionary anarchist & political philosopher. Theme: \"The urge to destroy is also a creative urge\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-urge-to-destroy-is-also-a-creative-urge/"},{"slug":"the-way-to-do-is-to-be","q":"The way to do is to be","n":"the way to do is to be","c":"attributed","real":"Lao Tzu","credited":"Lao Tzu","credit":"Lao Tzu (attributed) — the exact wording is the closing line of chapter 47 in Witter Bynner's 1944 translation \"The Way of Life According to Laotzu,\" popularized by 1968 Texas graffiti.","cite":"Lao Tzu, The Way of Life According to Laotzu: An American Version, trans. Witter Bynner (New York: John Day Company, 1944), ch. 47. Earliest documented standalone use: Dallas Morning News, 29 January 1968 (per Quote Investigator).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Lao Tzu — semi-legendary Chinese sage · reputed author of the Tao Te Ching. Theme: \"The way to do is to be\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-way-to-do-is-to-be/"},{"slug":"the-way-to-get-started-is-to-quit-talking-and-begin-doing","q":"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing","n":"the way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing","c":"attributed","real":"Walt Disney","credited":"","credit":"Walt Disney, paraphrased from a July 1957 interview with columnist Hedda Hopper (\"I found the way to get started was to quit talking and begin doing it\")","cite":"Hedda Hopper, syndicated Hollywood column, July 1957, quoting Walt Disney: \"I found the way to get started was to quit talking and begin doing it.\" As documented in Snopes, \"Did Walt Disney Say 'The Way To Get Started Is To Quit Talking'?\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Walt Disney — American animator, film producer & studio co-founder. Theme: \"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-way-to-get-started-is-to-quit-talking-and-begin-doing/"},{"slug":"the-weak-can-never-forgive-forgiveness-is-the-attribute-of","q":"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong","n":"the weak can never forgive forgiveness is the attribute of the strong","c":"verified","real":"Mahatma Gandhi","credited":"","credit":"Mahatma Gandhi, statement on the execution of Bhagat Singh, Young India, 2 April 1931.","cite":"Gandhi, Mohandas K. Statement on the execution of Bhagat Singh. 'Young India,' 2 April 1931. Reprinted in 'The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi' (New Delhi: Publications Division, Government of India).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Mahatma Gandhi — leader of Indian independence. Theme: \"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-weak-can-never-forgive-forgiveness-is-the-attribute-of/"},{"slug":"the-whole-problem-with-the-world-is-that-fools-are-so","q":"The whole problem with the world is that fools are so certain, and wiser people so full of doubts","n":"the whole problem with the world is that fools are so certain and wiser people so full of doubts","c":"disputed","real":"Bertrand Russell","credited":"Bertrand Russell","credit":"Bertrand Russell didn't write \"The whole problem with the world is that fools are so certain, and wiser people so full of doubts.\" What he wrote, in \"The Triumph of Stupidity\" (10 May 1933), was: \"The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.\" The popular rewrite has no known source before 2001. — quotle.info","cite":"Russell, Bertrand. \"Stupidity Rules.\" San Francisco Examiner, 10 May 1933, p. 10, col. 7. Reprinted as \"The Triumph of Stupidity\" in Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931–1935, vol. 2 (London: Routledge). The popular \"fools and fanatics\" wording is not Russell's; earliest documented instance, 2001.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Bertrand Russell — British philosopher, logician & Nobel laureate. Theme: \"The whole problem with the world is that fools are so certain, and wiser people so full of doubts\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-whole-problem-with-the-world-is-that-fools-are-so/"},{"slug":"the-world-breaks-everyone-and-afterward-some-are-strong-at","q":"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places","n":"the world breaks everyone and afterward some are strong at the broken places","c":"disputed","real":"Ernest Hemingway","credited":"The 'some' variant","credit":"Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (1929) — the original wording is \"many,\" not \"some,\" are strong at the broken places.","cite":"Hemingway, Ernest. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929, Book Four, ch. XXXIV.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Ernest Hemingway — American novelist, short-story writer & war correspondent. Theme: \"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-world-breaks-everyone-and-afterward-some-are-strong-at/"},{"slug":"the-world-is-a-raving-idiot-and-no-man-can-kill-it","q":"The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it","n":"the world is a raving idiot and no man can kill it","c":"verified","real":"D.H. Lawrence","credited":"","credit":"The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it: though I'll do my best. — D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)","cite":"Lawrence, D. H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Florence: Tipografia Giuntina, 1928, chap. 18.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of D.H. Lawrence — English novelist, poet & essayist. Theme: \"The world is a raving idiot, and no man can kill it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-world-is-a-raving-idiot-and-no-man-can-kill-it/"},{"slug":"the-world-is-a-stage-but-the-play-is-badly-cast","q":"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast","n":"the world is a stage but the play is badly cast","c":"verified","real":"Oscar Wilde","credited":"","credit":"Oscar Wilde, \"Lord Arthur Savile's Crime\" (1887)","cite":"Oscar Wilde, \"Lord Arthur Savile's Crime,\" first published in The Court and Society Review (1887); collected in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891), chap. 1.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Oscar Wilde — Irish poet, playwright & wit. Theme: \"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-world-is-a-stage-but-the-play-is-badly-cast/"},{"slug":"the-world-is-full-of-magic-things-patiently-waiting-for-our","q":"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper","n":"the world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper","c":"disputed","real":"Eden Phillpotts","credited":"William Butler Yeats","credit":"— Eden Phillpotts","cite":"Phillpotts, Eden. A Shadow Passes. London: Cecil Palmer & Hayward, 1918, p. 19.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Eden Phillpotts — English novelist, poet & playwright. Theme: \"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-world-is-full-of-magic-things-patiently-waiting-for-our/"},{"slug":"the-world-of-reality-has-its-limits-the-world-of","q":"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless","n":"the world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless","c":"verified","real":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau","credited":"","credit":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Émile, or On Education (1762), Book II, trans. Barbara Foxley (1911)","cite":"Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 'Émile, ou De l'éducation' (1762), Book II; trans. Barbara Foxley, 'Emile' (London: J.M. Dent / Everyman's Library, 1911).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Genevan-born Enlightenment philosopher & writer. Theme: \"The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-world-of-reality-has-its-limits-the-world-of/"},{"slug":"the-worst-form-of-inequality-is-to-try-to-make-unequal","q":"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal","n":"the worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — a 20th-century coinage falsely pinned on Aristotle","credited":"Aristotle","credit":"Not Aristotle — this exact line appears in none of his works. It is a modern aphorism (c. 1970s) that distorts his real argument for proportional justice in Politics 1280a.","cite":"Genuine parallel: Aristotle, Politics III.9 (Bekker 1280a), trans. Benjamin Jowett (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1885). The popular aphorism is unattested in Aristotle; earliest circulation traced to the mid-1970s per Joel Christensen, \"Fake Aristotle Fakely Rails Against Fighting Inequality,\" Sententiae Antiquae, 23 March 2019.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Aristotle — Greek philosopher; pupil of Plato, tutor of Alexander the Great. Theme: \"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/the-worst-form-of-inequality-is-to-try-to-make-unequal/"},{"slug":"there-are-no-strangers-here-only-friends-you-havent-yet-met","q":"There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met","n":"there are no strangers here only friends you havent yet met","c":"disputed","real":"Edgar A. Guest","credited":"William Butler Yeats","credit":"Misattributed to William Butler Yeats — origin traced to Edgar Guest's poetry and anonymous 1940s newspaper filler (Quote Investigator, 2017)","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Gregory F. Sullivan), \"There Are No Strangers Here; Only Friends You Haven't Yet Met,\" Quote Investigator, August 9, 2017, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/08/09/stranger/.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Edgar A. Guest — British-born American newspaper poet, \"the People's Poet\". Theme: \"There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-are-no-strangers-here-only-friends-you-havent-yet-met/"},{"slug":"there-are-only-four-stories-the-siege-of-a-city-the-return","q":"There are only four stories: the siege of a city, the return home, the quest, and the suicide of a god","n":"there are only four stories the siege of a city the return home the quest and the suicide of a god","c":"disputed","real":"Jorge Luis Borges","credited":"Paulo Coelho","credit":"Jorge Luis Borges, “Los cuatro ciclos” (“The Four Cycles”), in El oro de los tigres (1972) — often misattributed to Paulo Coelho.","cite":"Jorge Luis Borges, \"Los cuatro ciclos,\" in El oro de los tigres (Buenos Aires: Emecé Editores, 1972), 127–130. English rendering per Quote Investigator (2020).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Jorge Luis Borges — Argentine writer, poet & essayist. Theme: \"There are only four stories: the siege of a city, the return home, the quest, and the suicide of a god\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-are-only-four-stories-the-siege-of-a-city-the-return/"},{"slug":"there-are-only-three-sports-bullfighting-motor-racing-and","q":"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games","n":"there are only three sports bullfighting motor racing and mountaineering all the rest are merely games","c":"disputed","real":"Ken Purdy","credited":"Ernest Hemingway","credit":"Misattributed to Ernest Hemingway. The line actually originates as fictional dialogue in Ken Purdy's short story \"Blood Sport\" (The Saturday Evening Post, 27 July 1957); Purdy's original said \"recreations,\" not \"merely games.\" Documented by Barry Popik.","cite":"Ken Purdy, \"Blood Sport,\" The Saturday Evening Post, 27 July 1957 (line spoken by the character Helmut Ovden); citation history documented by Barry Popik, \"Auto Racing, Bullfighting, and Mountain Climbing Are the Only Real Sports.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Ken Purdy — American automotive writer and editor. Theme: \"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-are-only-three-sports-bullfighting-motor-racing-and/"},{"slug":"there-are-some-ideas-so-absurd-that-only-an-intellectual","q":"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them","n":"there are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them","c":"disputed","real":"George Orwell","credited":"George Orwell","credit":"Paraphrase of George Orwell. His actual words in \"Notes on Nationalism\" (1945): \"One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.\"","cite":"George Orwell, \"Notes on Nationalism,\" Polemic, no. 1 (London, May 1945). Actual wording: \"One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.\" The \"so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them\" form is a later paraphrase; see Quote Investigator, \"One Has To Belong To the Intelligentsia…,\" 3 March 2024.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of George Orwell — English novelist & essayist. Theme: \"There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-are-some-ideas-so-absurd-that-only-an-intellectual/"},{"slug":"there-are-two-ways-of-spreading-light-to-be-the-candle-or","q":"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it","n":"there are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it","c":"verified","real":"Edith Wharton","credited":"","credit":"— Edith Wharton","cite":"Wharton, Edith. \"Vesalius in Zante (1564).\" The North American Review, vol. 175, no. 552, November 1902, p. 631; collected in Artemis to Actæon, and Other Verses. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909, pp. 14–23.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Edith Wharton — American novelist, short-story writer & poet. Theme: \"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-are-two-ways-of-spreading-light-to-be-the-candle-or/"},{"slug":"there-are-years-that-ask-questions-and-years-that-answer","q":"There are years that ask questions and years that answer","n":"there are years that ask questions and years that answer","c":"verified","real":"Zora Neale Hurston","credited":"","credit":"Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), ch. 3","cite":"Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1937), ch. 3.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Zora Neale Hurston — American novelist, folklorist & anthropologist. Theme: \"There are years that ask questions and years that answer\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-are-years-that-ask-questions-and-years-that-answer/"},{"slug":"there-has-never-been-a-statue-erected-to-honor-a-critic","q":"There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic","n":"there has never been a statue erected to honor a critic","c":"disputed","real":"Jean Sibelius","credited":"Zig Ziglar","credit":"popularly credited to Zig Ziglar, but the saying originates with composer Jean Sibelius: \"Remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic!\" — recorded in Bengt de Törne, Sibelius: A Close-Up (London: Faber and Faber, 1937), p. 27. Ziglar's wording is documented only from 2004.","cite":"Törne, Bengt de. Sibelius: A Close-Up. London: Faber and Faber, 1937, p. 27. (First US edition: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1938.) Chronology of the saying's later variants, including Zig Ziglar's 2004 wording, per Quote Investigator, \"Quote Origin: A Statue Has Never Been Set Up in Honour of a Critic,\" 4 August 2013.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Jean Sibelius — Finnish composer. Theme: \"There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-has-never-been-a-statue-erected-to-honor-a-critic/"},{"slug":"there-is-a-certain-relief-in-change-even-though-it-be-from","q":"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse","n":"there is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse","c":"verified","real":"Washington Irving","credited":"","credit":"Washington Irving, \"To the Reader,\" Tales of a Traveller (1824)","cite":"Washington Irving, \"To the Reader,\" in Tales of a Traveller (London & New York, 1824), Preface.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Washington Irving — American author, essayist & historian. Theme: \"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-a-certain-relief-in-change-even-though-it-be-from/"},{"slug":"there-is-always-a-well-known-solution-to-every-human","q":"There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong","n":"there is always a well known solution to every human problem neat plausible and wrong","c":"disputed","real":"H.L. Mencken","credited":"Peter Drucker","credit":"H.L. Mencken, \"The Divine Afflatus,\" Prejudices: Second Series (Alfred A. Knopf, 1920).","cite":"H.L. Mencken, \"The Divine Afflatus,\" in Prejudices: Second Series (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of H.L. Mencken — American journalist, essayist & satirist. Theme: \"There is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-always-a-well-known-solution-to-every-human/"},{"slug":"there-is-no-charm-equal-to-tenderness-of-heart","q":"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart","n":"there is no charm equal to tenderness of heart","c":"verified","real":"Jane Austen","credited":"","credit":"Jane Austen, Emma (1815)","cite":"Austen, Jane. Emma. London: John Murray, 1816 [1815]. Volume II, Chapter XIII.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Jane Austen — English novelist. Theme: \"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-no-charm-equal-to-tenderness-of-heart/"},{"slug":"there-is-no-duty-we-so-much-underrate-as-the-duty-of-being","q":"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy","n":"there is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy","c":"verified","real":"Robert Louis Stevenson","credited":"","credit":"Robert Louis Stevenson, \"An Apology for Idlers\" (Cornhill Magazine, 1877; collected in Virginibus Puerisque, 1881)","cite":"Robert Louis Stevenson, \"An Apology for Idlers,\" Cornhill Magazine 36 (July 1877); collected in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1881).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Robert Louis Stevenson — Scottish essayist, novelist & poet. Theme: \"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-no-duty-we-so-much-underrate-as-the-duty-of-being/"},{"slug":"there-is-no-expedient-to-which-a-man-will-not-go-to-avoid","q":"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking","n":"there is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking","c":"disputed","real":"Sir Joshua Reynolds","credited":"Thomas Edison","credit":"Not Thomas Edison. The line condenses Sir Joshua Reynolds's Twelfth Discourse (1784/1797); Edison posted it in his labs but credited Reynolds. — verified at Quotle.info","cite":"Joshua Reynolds, Discourse XII (delivered 1784; published in The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1797); condensed form traced in Irving Babbitt, The New Laokoon (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910). Chronology per Quote Investigator, \"There Is No Expedient to which a Man Will Not Resort to Avoid the Real Labor of Thinking,\" 15 May 2014.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Sir Joshua Reynolds — English portrait painter & first President of the Royal Academy. Theme: \"There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-no-expedient-to-which-a-man-will-not-go-to-avoid/"},{"slug":"there-is-no-greater-agony-than-bearing-an-untold-story","q":"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you","n":"there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you","c":"disputed","real":"Zora Neale Hurston","credited":"Maya Angelou","credit":"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. —Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942). Frequently misattributed to Maya Angelou.","cite":"Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1942).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Zora Neale Hurston — American writer, folklorist and anthropologist. Theme: \"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-no-greater-agony-than-bearing-an-untold-story/"},{"slug":"there-is-no-limit-to-the-amount-of-good-you-can-do-if-you","q":"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit","n":"there is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you dont care who gets the credit","c":"disputed","real":"Attributed to \"Father Strickland,\" an English Jesuit (earliest documented, 1863)","credited":"Ronald Reagan","credit":"Not Reagan's words. The saying is documented to an 1863 diary crediting an English Jesuit (\"a man may do an immense deal of good, if he does not care who gets the credit for it\"); Reagan's desk plaque read \"…what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.\" The popular wording is a modern paraphrase. — Quotle.info","cite":"Garson O'Toole, \"A Man May Do an Immense Deal of Good, If He Does Not Care Who Gets the Credit,\" Quote Investigator, 21 December 2010, quoting Sir M. E. Grant Duff, Notes from a Diary (entry dated 21 Sept 1863; London: John Murray, 1897).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of \"Father Strickland\" (earliest documented) — earliest recorded 1863. Theme: \"There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-no-limit-to-the-amount-of-good-you-can-do-if-you/"},{"slug":"there-is-no-limit-to-what-a-man-can-do-or-where-he-can-go","q":"There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit","n":"there is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesnt mind who gets the credit","c":"disputed","real":"Charles Edward Montague","credited":"Ronald Reagan","credit":"An anonymous saying displayed by Ronald Reagan; closest to C.E. Montague, Disenchantment (1922). Not originated by Reagan.","cite":"Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment (London: Chatto & Windus, 1922). Origin analysis: Garson O'Toole, \"A Man May Do an Immense Deal of Good, If He Does Not Care Who Gets the Credit,\" Quote Investigator, 21 Dec 2010.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Charles Edward Montague — English journalist & essayist · Manchester Guardian. Theme: \"There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-no-limit-to-what-a-man-can-do-or-where-he-can-go/"},{"slug":"there-is-no-substitute-for-hard-work","q":"There is no substitute for hard work","n":"there is no substitute for hard work","c":"disputed","real":"Thomas Edison","credited":"Thomas Edison","credit":"Attributed to Thomas Edison, but undocumented — the exact line appears in none of his known writings or speeches, and the same maxim is also credited to Vince Lombardi and Henry Sy.","cite":"No documented primary source. \"There is no substitute for hard work\" is attributed to Thomas Edison in modern quotation collections (e.g., Edison Innovation Foundation, Famous Quotes by Thomas Edison, thomasedison.org) but appears in none of his documented writings or speeches; the same maxim is separately credited to Vince Lombardi and Henry Sy.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Edison — American inventor & founder of GE. Theme: \"There is no substitute for hard work\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-no-substitute-for-hard-work/"},{"slug":"there-is-no-way-to-happiness-happiness-is-the-way","q":"There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way","n":"there is no way to happiness happiness is the way","c":"disputed","real":"A. J. Muste, adapted by Wayne Dyer & Thich Nhat Hanh","credited":"Gautama Buddha","credit":"Not the Buddha — this is a modern saying: A. J. Muste's pacifist credo \"There is no way to peace, peace is the way,\" recast for happiness by Wayne Dyer (1978) and popularized by Thich Nhat Hanh.","cite":"Bodhipaksa, \"There is no path to happiness. Happiness is the path,\" Fake Buddha Quotes; cf. A. J. Muste, \"There is no way to peace, peace is the way\" (attrib. New York Times, 16 Nov. 1967), and Wayne Dyer, Pulling Your Own Strings (New York: Crowell, 1978).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of A. J. Muste — American pacifist minister & labor activist. Theme: \"There is no way to happiness; happiness is the way\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-no-way-to-happiness-happiness-is-the-way/"},{"slug":"there-is-nothing-i-would-not-do-for-those-who-are-really-my","q":"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends","n":"there is nothing i would not do for those who are really my friends","c":"verified","real":"Jane Austen","credited":"","credit":"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves; it is not my nature. — Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (1817)","cite":"Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. London: John Murray, 1817.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Jane Austen — English novelist. Theme: \"There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-nothing-i-would-not-do-for-those-who-are-really-my/"},{"slug":"there-is-nothing-noble-in-being-superior-to-some-other-man","q":"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self","n":"there is nothing noble in being superior to some other man the true nobility is in being superior to your previous self","c":"disputed","real":"Walter L. Sheldon","credited":"Seneca","credit":"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. —Walter L. Sheldon, \"Ethical Addresses,\" 1897 (commonly misattributed to Seneca)","cite":"Walter L. Sheldon, \"What to Believe: An Ethical Creed,\" Ethical Addresses, Series 4, No. 4 (Philadelphia: S. Burns Weston, April 1897), 57–61; reprinted in The Unitarian 12, no. 6 (June 1897): 269–270.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Walter L. Sheldon — American Ethical Culture lecturer & founder of the Ethical Society of St. Louis. Theme: \"There is nothing noble in being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-nothing-noble-in-being-superior-to-some-other-man/"},{"slug":"there-is-nothing-noble-in-being-superior-to-your-fellow-man","q":"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self","n":"there is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man true nobility is being superior to your former self","c":"disputed","real":"Walter L. Sheldon","credited":"Ernest Hemingway","credit":"Walter L. Sheldon, 1897 (often misattributed to Ernest Hemingway)","cite":"Sheldon, Walter L. \"What to Believe: An Ethical Creed.\" Ethical Addresses, April 1897. Popularly but wrongly attributed to Ernest Hemingway via \"A Man's Credo,\" Playboy, January 1963.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Walter L. Sheldon — American Ethical Culture lecturer & philosopher. Theme: \"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man. True nobility is being superior to your former self\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-nothing-noble-in-being-superior-to-your-fellow-man/"},{"slug":"there-is-nothing-on-this-earth-more-to-be-prized-than-true","q":"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship","n":"there is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship","c":"disputed","real":"Thomas Aquinas","credited":"Anonymous modern quote-book editors","credit":"Adapted from Thomas Aquinas, De Regno (On Kingship), Book I, ch. 11, c. 1267 — the popular wording \"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship\" is a loose modern paraphrase, not his exact words.","cite":"Thomas Aquinas, On Kingship, to the King of Cyprus (De Regno ad regem Cypri), Book I, ch. 11, trans. Gerald B. Phelan, rev. I. Th. Eschmann, O.P. (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1949). Latin: Corpus Thomisticum, De regno ad regem Cypri.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Aquinas — Italian Dominican friar, philosopher & theologian. Theme: \"There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-nothing-on-this-earth-more-to-be-prized-than-true/"},{"slug":"there-is-nothing-to-writing-all-you-do-is-sit-down-at-a","q":"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed","n":"there is nothing to writing all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed","c":"disputed","real":"Walter 'Red' Smith","credited":"Ernest Hemingway","credit":"Not Ernest Hemingway. He never wrote this line — it was first credited to him in 1973, twelve years after his death. The typewriter-and-bleed metaphor is best traced to sportswriter Red Smith (quoted 1949) and Paul Gallico (1946). — Quotle.info","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Writing Is Easy; You Just Open a Vein and Bleed,\" September 14, 2011, quoteinvestigator.com. Earliest documented forms: Paul Gallico (1946); Walter 'Red' Smith, quoted by Walter Winchell (1949). Earliest Hemingway attribution: William C. Knott, The Craft of Fiction (1973).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Walter 'Red' Smith — American sportswriter & Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist. Theme: \"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-nothing-to-writing-all-you-do-is-sit-down-at-a/"},{"slug":"there-is-nothing-wrong-with-america-that-cannot-be-cured-by","q":"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America","n":"there is nothing wrong with america that cannot be cured by what is right with america","c":"verified","real":"Bill Clinton","credited":"","credit":"Bill Clinton, First Inaugural Address, January 20, 1993.","cite":"William J. Clinton, \"First Inaugural Address,\" delivered 20 January 1993, Washington, D.C. Text in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1993, Book I (Washington: GPO); also American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Bill Clinton — 42nd President of the United States, 1993–2001 · Governor of Arkansas. Theme: \"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-nothing-wrong-with-america-that-cannot-be-cured-by/"},{"slug":"there-is-only-one-thing-in-the-world-worse-than-being","q":"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about","n":"there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about","c":"verified","real":"Oscar Wilde","credited":"","credit":"Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890/91), ch. 1 — spoken by Lord Henry Wotton","cite":"Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, chap. 1 (London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1891); first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine 46 (July 1890).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Oscar Wilde — Irish poet, playwright & wit. Theme: \"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-only-one-thing-in-the-world-worse-than-being/"},{"slug":"there-is-only-one-way-to-avoid-criticism-do-nothing-say","q":"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing","n":"there is only one way to avoid criticism do nothing say nothing and be nothing","c":"disputed","real":"Elbert Hubbard","credited":"Aristotle","credit":"Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915), from his writings, c. 1898–1922 — often misattributed to Aristotle.","cite":"Elbert Hubbard, \"John North Willys,\" in Elbert Hubbard's Selected Writings, Part 2 (East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1922), 335; earliest form in Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen (1898). See Quote Investigator, \"To Avoid Criticism, Say Nothing, Do Nothing, Be Nothing\" (Jan. 9, 2015).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Elbert Hubbard — American writer, publisher & founder of the Roycroft community. Theme: \"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-only-one-way-to-avoid-criticism-do-nothing-say/"},{"slug":"there-is-plenty-of-time-to-sleep-in-the-grave","q":"There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave","n":"there is plenty of time to sleep in the grave","c":"disputed","real":"Benjamin Franklin","credited":"William Shakespeare","credit":"Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack (1758). The popular \"plenty of time to sleep in the grave\" wording is a later paraphrase, not Shakespeare.","cite":"Benjamin Franklin, \"Poor Richard Improved\" (1758), in The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, vol. 7; reprinted as The Way to Wealth. \"There will be sleeping enough in the Grave.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Benjamin Franklin — American statesman, printer & author of Poor Richard's Almanack. Theme: \"There is plenty of time to sleep in the grave\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-is-plenty-of-time-to-sleep-in-the-grave/"},{"slug":"there-isnt-anyone-you-couldnt-love-once-youve-heard-their","q":"There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story","n":"there isnt anyone you couldnt love once youve heard their story","c":"disputed","real":"Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB","credited":"Fred Rogers","credit":"Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB — first documented in More Random Acts of Kindness (Conari Press, 1994); later carried and popularized by Fred Rogers. Often misattributed to Mister Rogers.","cite":"Mary Lou Kownacki, quoted in the Editors of Conari Press, More Random Acts of Kindness (Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 1994); as traced by Quote Investigator, \"Quote Origin: There Isn't Anyone You Couldn't Love Once You've Heard Their Story,\" 9 June 2022.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Mary Lou Kownacki, OSB — Benedictine sister, poet & peace activist. Theme: \"There isn't anyone you couldn't love once you've heard their story\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/there-isnt-anyone-you-couldnt-love-once-youve-heard-their/"},{"slug":"theres-a-plot-in-this-country-to-enslave-every-man-woman","q":"There's a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot","n":"theres a plot in this country to enslave every man woman and child before i leave this high and noble office i intend to expose this plot","c":"disputed","real":"John F. Kennedy","credited":"John F. Kennedy","credit":"Misattributed to John F. Kennedy — a fabricated quote with no source in any of Kennedy's speeches or writings; earliest known appearance is a 2004 online post.","cite":"No primary source. Earliest documented appearance in an online message-board signature line, 10 April 2004; investigated by Snopes, \"Did JFK Warn 'There's a Plot in This Country to Enslave Every Man, Woman, and Child'?\" and PolitiFact (3 April 2019).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of John F. Kennedy — 35th U.S. President. Theme: \"There's a plot in this country to enslave every man, woman, and child. Before I leave this high and noble office, I intend to expose this plot\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/theres-a-plot-in-this-country-to-enslave-every-man-woman/"},{"slug":"these-are-the-times-that-try-mens-souls","q":"These are the times that try men's souls","n":"these are the times that try mens souls","c":"verified","real":"Thomas Paine","credited":"","credit":"Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 1 (1776)","cite":"Thomas Paine, \"The American Crisis, No. 1\" (Philadelphia, 19 December 1776).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Paine — English-born American revolutionary, author of Common Sense. Theme: \"These are the times that try men's souls\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/these-are-the-times-that-try-mens-souls/"},{"slug":"they-can-because-they-think-they-can","q":"They can because they think they can","n":"they can because they think they can","c":"verified","real":"Virgil","credited":"","credit":"They can because they think they can. —Virgil, Aeneid V.231 (trans. John Conington, 1866)","cite":"Virgil, Aeneid, Book V, line 231 (\"hos successus alit: possunt, quia posse videntur\"), trans. John Conington (1866).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Virgil — Roman poet, author of the Aeneid. Theme: \"They can because they think they can\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/they-can-because-they-think-they-can/"},{"slug":"they-muddy-the-waters-to-make-them-look-deep","q":"They muddy the waters to make them look deep","n":"they muddy the waters to make them look deep","c":"verified","real":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credited":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credit":"Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Part II, \"On the Poets\" (1883)","cite":"Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part II, \"The Poets,\" trans. Thomas Common (London: T. N. Foulis, 1909); orig. Also sprach Zarathustra, \"Von den Dichtern\" (Chemnitz: Schmeitzner, 1883).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Friedrich Nietzsche — German philosopher & philologist. Theme: \"They muddy the waters to make them look deep\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/they-muddy-the-waters-to-make-them-look-deep/"},{"slug":"things-dont-turn-up-in-this-world-until-somebody-turns-them","q":"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up","n":"things dont turn up in this world until somebody turns them up","c":"attributed","real":"James A. Garfield","credited":"","credit":"James A. Garfield (attributed) — as compiled in E. E. Brown's 1881 biography","cite":"Emma Elizabeth Brown, The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield (1881), 437, in \"Notable Extracts from His Speeches and Letters.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of James A. Garfield — 20th U.S. President, Union general & Ohio congressman. Theme: \"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/things-dont-turn-up-in-this-world-until-somebody-turns-them/"},{"slug":"think-not-so-much-of-what-thou-hast-not-as-of-what-thou","q":"Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not","n":"think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast but of the things which thou hast select the best and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought if thou hadst them not","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"","credit":"Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VII.27 (trans. George Long, 1862)","cite":"Marcus Aurelius. The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus (Meditations), Book VII, section 27. Translated by George Long. London: Bell & Daldy, 1862.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"Think not so much of what thou hast not as of what thou hast: but of the things which thou hast select the best, and then reflect how eagerly they would have been sought, if thou hadst them not\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/think-not-so-much-of-what-thou-hast-not-as-of-what-thou/"},{"slug":"think-youre-escaping-and-run-into-yourself-longest-way","q":"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home","n":"think youre escaping and run into yourself longest way round is the shortest way home","c":"verified","real":"James Joyce","credited":"","credit":"James Joyce, Ulysses (1922)","cite":"Joyce, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of James Joyce — Irish novelist, poet & literary critic. Theme: \"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/think-youre-escaping-and-run-into-yourself-longest-way/"},{"slug":"this-is-one-race-of-people-for-whom-psychoanalysis-is-of-no","q":"This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever","n":"this is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever","c":"disputed","real":"Sigmund Freud (misattributed)","credited":"Sigmund Freud","credit":"Misattributed to Sigmund Freud — no source in his works; a modern quip popularized by the film The Departed (2006).","cite":"No primary source located. Earliest documented discussion of the idea: Anthony Burgess (1980), reported in Frank McNally, \"The Full Irish, Freud,\" The Irish Times, 2014. Popular modern wording: William Monahan, screenplay, The Departed (Warner Bros., 2006).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Sigmund Freud — Austrian neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis. Theme: \"This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/this-is-one-race-of-people-for-whom-psychoanalysis-is-of-no/"},{"slug":"this-is-your-life-not-a-dress-rehearsal","q":"This is your life, not a dress rehearsal","n":"this is your life not a dress rehearsal","c":"disputed","real":"Wayne Dyer","credited":"Wayne Dyer","credit":"Anonymous (modern proverb; often misattributed to Wayne Dyer). Earliest documented use 1953 per Quote Investigator.","cite":"\"Life Is Not a Rehearsal.\" Quote Investigator, 1 June 2013. Earliest documented instance: Covina Argus-Citizen (Covina, CA), 1953, as a sermon title by Pastor Lawrence T. Holman. Origin judged untraceable; attribution: Anonymous.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the mid-century American world where this anonymous proverb took root — small-town 1950s newspaper print, hand-lettered church sermon boards, and 1970s slogan t-shirts. Theme: \"This is your life, not a dress rehearsal\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/this-is-your-life-not-a-dress-rehearsal/"},{"slug":"this-world-is-but-canvas-to-our-imaginations","q":"This world is but canvas to our imaginations","n":"this world is but canvas to our imaginations","c":"verified","real":"Henry David Thoreau","credited":"","credit":"Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849), \"Wednesday\"","cite":"Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1849), \"Wednesday.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, naturalist & Transcendentalist. Theme: \"This world is but canvas to our imaginations\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/this-world-is-but-canvas-to-our-imaginations/"},{"slug":"those-who-can-do-those-who-cannot-teach","q":"Those who can, do; those who cannot, teach","n":"those who can do those who cannot teach","c":"disputed","real":"George Bernard Shaw","credited":"Aristotle","credit":"Original wording: \"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.\" —George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903). Not Aristotle.","cite":"George Bernard Shaw, \"Maxims for Revolutionists: Education,\" in Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy (London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1903).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of George Bernard Shaw — Irish playwright, critic & polemicist. Theme: \"Those who can, do; those who cannot, teach\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/those-who-can-do-those-who-cannot-teach/"},{"slug":"those-who-dance-appear-insane-to-those-who-cannot-hear-the","q":"Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music","n":"those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (19th-century saying)","credited":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credit":"Not Friedrich Nietzsche. \"Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music\" is an anonymous 19th-century saying — recorded by Germaine de Staël in 1813 and called an \"old proverb\" by 1927 — not a line from any of Nietzsche's works.","cite":"O'Toole, Garson. \"Those Who Dance Are Considered Insane by Those Who Can't Hear the Music.\" Quote Investigator, 5 June 2012. Earliest documented precursor: Germaine de Staël, De l'Allemagne (1813).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Anonymous (earliest recorded: Germaine de Staël) — earliest documented 1813, called an “old proverb” by 1927. Theme: \"Those who dance appear insane to those who cannot hear the music\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/those-who-dance-appear-insane-to-those-who-cannot-hear-the/"},{"slug":"those-who-dare-to-fail-miserably-can-achieve-greatly","q":"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly","n":"those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly","c":"disputed","real":"Robert F. Kennedy","credited":"John F. Kennedy","credit":"Robert F. Kennedy, \"Day of Affirmation Address,\" University of Cape Town, 6 June 1966: \"only those who dare to fail greatly, can ever achieve greatly.\" Often reworded as \"dare to fail miserably\" and misattributed to John F. Kennedy, who had died in 1963.","cite":"Robert F. Kennedy, \"Day of Affirmation Address,\" University of Cape Town, South Africa, 6 June 1966. See also Ripples of Hope: Great American Civil Rights Speeches, ed. Josh Gottheimer (New York: Basic Books, 2003).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Robert F. Kennedy — U.S. senator, former attorney general. Theme: \"Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/those-who-dare-to-fail-miserably-can-achieve-greatly/"},{"slug":"those-who-deny-freedom-to-others-deserve-it-not-for","q":"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it","n":"those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and under a just god cannot long retain it","c":"verified","real":"Abraham Lincoln","credited":"","credit":"Abraham Lincoln, letter to Henry L. Pierce and others, April 6, 1859","cite":"Abraham Lincoln to Henry L. Pierce and others, 6 April 1859, in The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. Roy P. Basler (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1953), vol. 3, pp. 374–376.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Abraham Lincoln — 16th U.S. President; lawyer & Republican statesman. Theme: \"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/those-who-deny-freedom-to-others-deserve-it-not-for/"},{"slug":"thou-shalt-not-speak-ill-of-any-fellow-republican","q":"Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican","n":"thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow republican","c":"disputed","real":"Gaylord Parkinson","credited":"Ronald Reagan","credit":"the \"Eleventh Commandment,\" coined by California Republican state chairman Gaylord Parkinson on 25 September 1965. This wording as set down by Ronald Reagan, who credited Parkinson for it, in An American Life (1990), p. 150.","cite":"Ronald Reagan, An American Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990), 150. The rule was issued by California Republican state chairman Gaylord Parkinson on 25 September 1965; earliest documented commandment-form wording in the Los Angeles Times, 27 September 1965, per Barry Popik's citation trail. Reagan restated it as president in 'Remarks in New York City at a Reception for Delegates to the State Republican Convention,' 17 June 1982.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Gaylord Parkinson — issued the GOP's \"Eleventh Commandment,\" 25 September 1965. Theme: \"Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/thou-shalt-not-speak-ill-of-any-fellow-republican/"},{"slug":"three-things-are-necessary-for-the-salvation-of-man-to-know","q":"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do","n":"three things are necessary for the salvation of man to know what he ought to believe to know what he ought to desire and to know what he ought to do","c":"verified","real":"Thomas Aquinas","credited":"","credit":"— Thomas Aquinas, The Two Precepts of Charity and the Ten Commandments (prologue), Naples, 1273","cite":"Thomas Aquinas, De duobus praeceptis caritatis et decem legis praeceptis (Collationes in decem praeceptis), prologue, delivered Naples, 1273. Latin: \"Tria sunt homini necessaria ad salutem: scilicet scientia credendorum, scientia desiderandorum, et scientia operandorum.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Aquinas — Italian Dominican friar, theologian & philosopher · Doctor of the Church. Theme: \"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/three-things-are-necessary-for-the-salvation-of-man-to-know/"},{"slug":"three-things-cannot-be-long-hidden-the-sun-the-moon-and-the","q":"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth","n":"three things cannot be long hidden the sun the moon and the truth","c":"disputed","real":"The Buddha (paraphrased)","credited":"Confucius","credit":"a 20th-century paraphrase of a genuine Buddhist teaching (Anguttara Nikaya 3.131), first phrased this way by P. Lakshmi Narasu in The Essence of Buddhism (1907); often misattributed to Confucius. Via Quotle.info","cite":"P. Lakshmi Narasu, The Essence of Buddhism (1907), paraphrasing the Aṅguttara Nikāya, Book of the Threes (AN 3.131).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of The Buddha (Siddhārtha Gautama) — founder of Buddhism. Theme: \"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/three-things-cannot-be-long-hidden-the-sun-the-moon-and-the/"},{"slug":"three-things-in-human-life-are-important-the-first-is-to-be","q":"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind","n":"three things in human life are important the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind","c":"disputed","real":"Henry James","credited":"Fred Rogers","credit":"Henry James, as recorded in Leon Edel, Henry James: The Master, 1901–1916 (1972); the remark dates to 1902. Often misattributed to Fred Rogers, who quoted it but credited James.","cite":"Leon Edel, Henry James: The Master, 1901–1916 (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1972), recording a remark Henry James made to his nephew Billy James in 1902. Earliest attribution traced by Quote Investigator (2018).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Henry James — American-born novelist & man of letters. Theme: \"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/three-things-in-human-life-are-important-the-first-is-to-be/"},{"slug":"time-and-tide-wait-for-no-man","q":"Time and tide wait for no man","n":"time and tide wait for no man","c":"disputed","real":"A traditional English proverb","credited":"Geoffrey Chaucer","credit":"Time and tide wait for no man. — a traditional English proverb, not Geoffrey Chaucer","cite":"Geoffrey Chaucer, \"The Clerk's Prologue,\" in The Canterbury Tales (c. 1395), for the line \"Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde.\" The proverb \"time and tide wait for no man\" is anonymous: the \"time and tide\" pairing is recorded from Robert Greene, A Disputation (1592), with the near-modern \"waits for no man\" wording by Arthur Murphy, The Apprentice (1764).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Geoffrey Chaucer — English poet, author of The Canterbury Tales. Theme: \"Time and tide wait for no man\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/time-and-tide-wait-for-no-man/"},{"slug":"time-flies-over-us-but-leaves-its-shadow-behind","q":"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind","n":"time flies over us but leaves its shadow behind","c":"verified","real":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","credited":"","credit":"Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun (1860)","cite":"Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun; or, The Romance of Monte Beni (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860), spoken by Donatello in the chapter at the tower of Monte Beni.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Nathaniel Hawthorne — American novelist & short-story writer. Theme: \"Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/time-flies-over-us-but-leaves-its-shadow-behind/"},{"slug":"time-is-very-slow-for-those-who-wait-very-fast-for-those","q":"Time is very slow for those who wait, very fast for those who are scared, very long for those who lament, very short for those who celebrate, but for those who love, time is eternal","n":"time is very slow for those who wait very fast for those who are scared very long for those who lament very short for those who celebrate but for those who love time is eternal","c":"disputed","real":"Henry van Dyke","credited":"William Shakespeare","credit":"Time is / Too Slow for those who Wait, / Too Swift for those who Fear, / Too Long for those who Grieve, / Too Short for those who Rejoice; / But for those who Love, / Time is Eternity. —Henry van Dyke, \"Time Is\" (first printed 1901). NOT Shakespeare — the \"very slow… very fast… scared… lament… celebrate… eternal\" version is a later corruption misattributed to Shakespeare.","cite":"Henry van Dyke, \"Time Is\" (sundial inscription), first printed in Alice Morse Earle, Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth (New York: Macmillan, 1901); later collected in van Dyke's Music and Other Poems (1904).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry van Dyke — American clergyman, poet & diplomat. Theme: \"Time is very slow for those who wait, very fast for those who are scared, very long for those who lament, very short for those who celebrate, but for those who love, time is eternal\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/time-is-very-slow-for-those-who-wait-very-fast-for-those/"},{"slug":"time-spent-with-cats-is-never-wasted","q":"Time spent with cats is never wasted","n":"time spent with cats is never wasted","c":"disputed","real":"Origin unknown (a 21st-century saying)","credited":"Sigmund Freud","credit":"Origin unknown — an anonymous modern saying, wrongly attributed to Sigmund Freud (and to Colette). Freud never said it.","cite":"No primary source. Earliest documented as an anonymous modern saying; attached to Colette c. 1995 and to Sigmund Freud c. 2007. See \"Die Zeit, die man mit Katzen verbringt…\" Zitatforschung (falschzitate.blogspot.com), 30 May 2022.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Sigmund Freud — Austrian neurologist & founder of psychoanalysis. Theme: \"Time spent with cats is never wasted\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/time-spent-with-cats-is-never-wasted/"},{"slug":"tis-better-to-have-loved-and-lost-than-never-to-have-loved","q":"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all","n":"tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all","c":"verified","real":"Alfred, Lord Tennyson","credited":"","credit":"Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam A. H. H., Canto XXVII (1850)","cite":"Alfred, Lord Tennyson, \"Canto XXVII,\" in In Memoriam A. H. H. (London: Edward Moxon, 1850).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Alfred, Lord Tennyson — English Poet Laureate. Theme: \"'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/tis-better-to-have-loved-and-lost-than-never-to-have-loved/"},{"slug":"to-all-the-girls-that-think-youre-fat-because-youre-not-a","q":"To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one. It's society who's ugly","n":"to all the girls that think youre fat because youre not a size zero youre the beautiful one its society whos ugly","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (modern internet aphorism)","credited":"Marilyn Monroe","credit":"Misattributed to Marilyn Monroe. This is an unsourced modern slogan found in none of her documented interviews or writings; Wikiquote lists it as misattributed, and the term \"size zero\" is anachronistic for her lifetime (she died in 1962).","cite":"No documented primary source. Earliest circulation is on quotation aggregators and social media in the 2000s–2010s, always undated and unsourced; catalogued as misattributed at Wikiquote, \"Marilyn Monroe.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Marilyn Monroe — American actress, model & cultural icon. Theme: \"To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one. It's society who's ugly\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/to-all-the-girls-that-think-youre-fat-because-youre-not-a/"},{"slug":"to-anger-a-conservative-lie-to-him-to-anger-a-liberal-tell","q":"To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth","n":"to anger a conservative lie to him to anger a liberal tell him the truth","c":"disputed","real":"Theodore Roosevelt","credited":"Theodore Roosevelt","credit":"Misattributed to Theodore Roosevelt. No source exists in his speeches or writings; the line first appeared in print around 2007. Author unknown.","cite":"Barry Popik, \"To anger a conservative, lie to him; to anger a liberal, tell him the truth,\" BarryPopik.com; and Eugene Kiely, \"Unverified Teddy Roosevelt 'Quotation' Lives On,\" FactCheck.org, May 2019. Earliest documented in print c. 2007; no source in Roosevelt's works.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Theodore Roosevelt — 26th U.S. President · the quote is falsely attributed to him. Theme: \"To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/to-anger-a-conservative-lie-to-him-to-anger-a-liberal-tell/"},{"slug":"to-be-is-to-do-to-do-is-to-be-do-be-do-be-do","q":"To be is to do. To do is to be. Do be do be do","n":"to be is to do to do is to be do be do be do","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (a communal graffito joke)","credited":"Kurt Vonnegut","credit":"Anonymous graffito (documented 1968); a version printed by Kurt Vonnegut in \"Deadeye Dick,\" 1982 — not original to him","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"Quote Origin: 'To Be Is To Do' 'To Do Is To Be' 'Do Be Do Be Do',\" Sept. 16, 2013, citing Paul Crume, Dallas Morning News, Jan. 1968; wording as printed in Kurt Vonnegut, Deadeye Dick (New York: Delacorte Press, 1982).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Kurt Vonnegut — American novelist & satirist. Theme: \"To be is to do. To do is to be. Do be do be do\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/to-be-is-to-do-to-do-is-to-be-do-be-do-be-do/"},{"slug":"to-be-yourself-in-a-world-that-is-constantly-trying-to-make","q":"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment","n":"to be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment","c":"disputed","real":"E. E. Cummings","credited":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credit":"Misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson. The words appear in no work of Emerson's; the line is a paraphrase of E. E. Cummings, \"A Poet's Advice to Students\" (1955): \"To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.\" — via Quotle.info","cite":"Cummings, E. E. \"A Poet's Advice to Students.\" Ottawa Hills High School Spectator, 26 October 1955. Reprinted in E. E. Cummings: A Miscellany, ed. George J. Firmage (New York: Argophile Press, 1958).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of E. E. Cummings — American modernist poet. Theme: \"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/to-be-yourself-in-a-world-that-is-constantly-trying-to-make/"},{"slug":"to-enforce-the-lies-of-the-present-it-is-necessary-to-erase","q":"To enforce the lies of the present, it is necessary to erase the truths of the past","n":"to enforce the lies of the present it is necessary to erase the truths of the past","c":"disputed","real":"George Orwell","credited":"George Orwell","credit":"Not a genuine George Orwell quotation. The exact wording does not appear in Nineteen Eighty-Four or any other Orwell work; its earliest documented use is a 2006 paraphrase by Keith Olbermann on MSNBC's \"Countdown.\" Orwell's real, related line is \"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date\" (Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part 1, Ch. 4). Source: quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in Keith Olbermann, \"Countdown with Keith Olbermann,\" MSNBC, Sept. 25–26, 2006 (broadcast transcript), presented as a paraphrase of themes in George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (London: Secker & Warburg, 1949), Part 1, Ch. 4. Per The Fallacy Files, \"Misquoting George Orwell.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of George Orwell — English novelist & essayist (born Eric Arthur Blair). Theme: \"To enforce the lies of the present, it is necessary to erase the truths of the past\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/to-enforce-the-lies-of-the-present-it-is-necessary-to-erase/"},{"slug":"to-laugh-often-and-much-to-win-the-respect-of-intelligent","q":"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded","n":"to laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived this is to have succeeded","c":"disputed","real":"Bessie Anderson Stanley","credited":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credit":"Not Ralph Waldo Emerson. This \"definition of success\" derives from Bessie Anderson Stanley's prize-winning 1904 essay (printed in the Emporia Gazette, 1905); the Emerson-credited wording is a later paraphrase popularized by columnist Albert Edward Wiggam in 1951.","cite":"Bessie Anderson Stanley, \"What Constitutes Success?\" (prize essay, 1904), Emporia Gazette, 11 December 1905; repr. in More Heart Throbs, vol. 2 (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1911), 1–2. Emerson attribution traced to Albert Edward Wiggam's syndicated column, 1951.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Bessie Anderson Stanley — American essayist · Lincoln, Kansas. Theme: \"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/to-laugh-often-and-much-to-win-the-respect-of-intelligent/"},{"slug":"to-learn-who-rules-over-you-simply-find-out-who-you-are-not","q":"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize","n":"to learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize","c":"disputed","real":"Kevin Alfred Strom","credited":"Voltaire","credit":"is not Voltaire. It is an anonymous paraphrase of Kevin Alfred Strom, \"All America Must Know the Terror That Is Upon Us,\" American Dissident Voices broadcast, 14 August 1993. Oxford's Voltaire Foundation lists it among one-liners Voltaire never said; fact-checkers found no trace of it in his collected works or correspondence. — Quotle.info","cite":"Kevin Alfred Strom, \"All America Must Know the Terror That Is Upon Us,\" American Dissident Voices (radio broadcast), 14 August 1993. The familiar wording is a later anonymous paraphrase; earliest documented attribution to Voltaire, 2007 (Barry Popik). Cf. Nicholas Cronk, Voltaire: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 122.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Kevin Alfred Strom — American white nationalist broadcaster · founded National Vanguard, 2005. Theme: \"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/to-learn-who-rules-over-you-simply-find-out-who-you-are-not/"},{"slug":"to-live-in-hearts-we-leave-behind-is-not-to-die","q":"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die","n":"to live in hearts we leave behind is not to die","c":"verified","real":"Thomas Campbell","credited":"","credit":"To live in hearts we leave behind / Is not to die. —Thomas Campbell, \"Hallowed Ground\" (1825). Public domain — free to reuse.","cite":"Campbell, Thomas. \"Hallowed Ground.\" The New Monthly Magazine, October 1825. Collected in The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Campbell — Scottish poet. Theme: \"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/to-live-in-hearts-we-leave-behind-is-not-to-die/"},{"slug":"to-live-is-to-change-and-to-be-perfect-is-to-have-changed","q":"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often","n":"to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often","c":"verified","real":"John Henry Newman","credited":"","credit":"John Henry Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (1845), ch. 1","cite":"John Henry Newman, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (London: James Toovey, 1845), ch. 1, sec. 1, p. 39.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Henry Newman — English theologian, poet & cardinal. Theme: \"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/to-live-is-to-change-and-to-be-perfect-is-to-have-changed/"},{"slug":"to-love-another-person-is-to-see-the-face-of-god","q":"To love another person is to see the face of God","n":"to love another person is to see the face of god","c":"disputed","real":"Herbert Kretzmer","credited":"Victor Hugo","credit":"Herbert Kretzmer, Les Miserables (musical, 1985) — not Victor Hugo","cite":"Kretzmer, Herbert (English lyrics); Schönberg, Claude-Michel (music); Boublil, Alain, and Jean-Marc Natel (original French text). \"Finale (Valjean's Death).\" Les Misérables (stage musical). London: Cameron Mackintosh/Barbican Theatre, 1985.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Herbert Kretzmer — South African-born British journalist, songwriter & lyricist. Theme: \"To love another person is to see the face of God\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/to-love-another-person-is-to-see-the-face-of-god/"},{"slug":"to-one-who-has-faith-no-explanation-is-necessary-to-one","q":"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible","n":"to one who has faith no explanation is necessary to one without faith no explanation is possible","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (popularized by 'The Song of Bernadette,' 1943)","credited":"Thomas Aquinas","credit":"Anonymous aphorism (documented by 1882; popularized by the 1943 film The Song of Bernadette) — often misattributed to Thomas Aquinas","cite":"Garson O'Toole, \"No Explanation Is Needed for a Believer; No Explanation Suffices for an Unbeliever,\" Quote Investigator, 7 Aug 2020; earliest documented instance in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1882 (anonymous); popular form in The Song of Bernadette (dir. Henry King, screenplay George Seaton, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Anonymous — popularized by the 1943 film The Song of Bernadette. Theme: \"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/to-one-who-has-faith-no-explanation-is-necessary-to-one/"},{"slug":"to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything","q":"To understand everything is to forgive everything","n":"to understand everything is to forgive everything","c":"disputed","real":"An anonymous French proverb ('Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner')","credited":"Gautama Buddha","credit":"Anonymous French proverb — \"Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner\" — documented in Tolstoy's War and Peace (1869); not the Buddha.","cite":"French proverb, \"Tout comprendre, c'est tout pardonner.\" Documented in Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (1869), bk. 1, ch. 28, spoken by Princess Mary. First attributed to Gautama Buddha, without source, in Farm Journal 34 (1910), 417.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Leo Tolstoy — Russian novelist · War and Peace & Anna Karenina. Theme: \"To understand everything is to forgive everything\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/to-understand-everything-is-to-forgive-everything/"},{"slug":"tolerance-and-apathy-are-the-last-virtues-of-a-dying-society","q":"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society","n":"tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — a modern fabrication","credited":"Aristotle","credit":"Attributed to Aristotle, but fabricated — the line appears in none of his works and is unattested in antiquity (per Vassar's Pharos project and classicists at Sententiae Antiquae).","cite":"No genuine source exists. Earliest documented as a modern misattribution; see Pharos, \"Fake Aristotle Quote Opposing Human Rights for Immigrants\" (Vassar College, 15 Nov 2019) and Sententiae Antiquae, \"Racists Use This Fake Quote From Aristotle\" (29 Sept 2018).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Aristotle — Greek philosopher · student of Plato, tutor of Alexander. Theme: \"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/tolerance-and-apathy-are-the-last-virtues-of-a-dying-society/"},{"slug":"tolerance-will-reach-such-a-level-that-intelligent-people","q":"Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles","n":"tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (internet meme)","credited":"Fyodor Dostoevsky","credit":"Anonymous internet meme (c. 2019), misattributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky — no source in his works. — Quotle.info","cite":"No primary source exists. Earliest documented as an anonymous Russian-language internet meme (c. 2019); English misattribution to Dostoevsky traced to Facebook, July 2021. See Snopes, \"Did Fyodor Dostoevsky Say This About Tolerance?\" and Lead Stories fact-check (Aug. 2021).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Fyodor Dostoevsky — Russian novelist & philosopher. Theme: \"Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/tolerance-will-reach-such-a-level-that-intelligent-people/"},{"slug":"tomorrow-is-another-day","q":"Tomorrow is another day","n":"tomorrow is another day","c":"disputed","real":"Margaret Mitchell","credited":"\"Tomorrow is another day\"","credit":"Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936), closing line. Spoken by Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 film, which took the line verbatim from the novel.","cite":"Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New York: Macmillan, 1936, pt. 5, ch. 63 (closing line). Line carried into Gone with the Wind, dir. Victor Fleming, screenplay credited to Sidney Howard (Selznick International Pictures / MGM, 1939). Proverb attested earlier in England's Helicon (London, 1600), \"Phyllida's Love-call to her Corydon, and his Replying,\" signed \"Ignoto.\"","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Margaret Mitchell — American novelist & journalist. Theme: \"Tomorrow is another day\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/tomorrow-is-another-day/"},{"slug":"too-much-of-a-good-thing-can-be-wonderful","q":"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful","n":"too much of a good thing can be wonderful","c":"attributed","real":"Mae West","credited":"","credit":"— Mae West (attributed; source undocumented)","cite":"Attributed to Mae West (1893–1980). Widely quoted from the mid-20th century onward and often linked — without confirmation — to her memoir Goodness Had Nothing to Do with It (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1959); recorded as unsourced in Wikiquote. The line inverts the proverb best known from Shakespeare's As You Like It (1600).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Mae West — American actress, playwright and vaudeville-bred wit. Theme: \"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/too-much-of-a-good-thing-can-be-wonderful/"},{"slug":"toto-i-dont-think-were-in-kansas-anymore","q":"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore","n":"toto i dont think were in kansas anymore","c":"disputed","real":"Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf","credited":"\"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore\"","credit":"Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) in The Wizard of Oz, screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf (MGM, 1939). Often misquoted as \"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.\" The line is not in L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel.","cite":"Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf. The Wizard of Oz. Directed by Victor Fleming. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939. Based on L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Chicago: Geo. M. Hill Co., 1900). Line ranked #4 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes (2005).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf — Ryerson 1892–1965 · Woolf 1881–1943 · credited screenwriters, The Wizard of Oz (1939). Theme: \"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/toto-i-dont-think-were-in-kansas-anymore/"},{"slug":"travel-and-tell-no-one-have-a-true-love-story-and-tell-no","q":"Travel and tell no one. Have a true love story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things","n":"travel and tell no one have a true love story and tell no one live happily and tell no one people ruin beautiful things","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (falsely credited to Kahlil Gibran)","credited":"Kahlil Gibran","credit":"Misattributed to Kahlil Gibran. This line appears in none of his works; Wikiquote lists it as untraceable to any source, popularized online around August 2016. Author unknown.","cite":"\"Kahlil Gibran — Misattributed,\" Wikiquote, accessed 10 July 2026 (records the line as untraceable to any source, popularized August 2016). No primary Gibran source exists.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Kahlil Gibran — Lebanese-American poet, writer & artist. Theme: \"Travel and tell no one. Have a true love story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/travel-and-tell-no-one-have-a-true-love-story-and-tell-no/"},{"slug":"trust-but-verify","q":"Trust, but verify","n":"trust but verify","c":"verified","real":"Ronald Reagan","credited":"Ronald Reagan","credit":"Ronald Reagan, quoting what he called an old Russian maxim, Remarks on Signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, the White House, 8 December 1987","cite":"Reagan, Ronald. \"Remarks on Signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.\" The White House, East Room, Washington, D.C., 8 December 1987. In Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1987, Book II. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. Earliest documented Reagan use: \"Remarks at a Senate Campaign Rally for Christopher S. Bond in Springfield, Missouri,\" 23 October 1986.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Ronald Reagan — 40th President of the United States (1981–1989), former actor and Governor of California. Theme: \"Trust, but verify\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/trust-but-verify/"},{"slug":"trust-no-one-in-whom-the-desire-to-punish-is-strong","q":"Trust no one in whom the desire to punish is strong","n":"trust no one in whom the desire to punish is strong","c":"disputed","real":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credited":"Fyodor Dostoevsky","credit":"Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, \"The Tarantulas\" (1883; trans. Thomas Common, 1909): \"Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!\" Often misattributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky.","cite":"Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Part Two, “The Tarantulas,” trans. Thomas Common (1909); orig. Also sprach Zarathustra (1883). “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Friedrich Nietzsche — German philosopher & classical philologist. Theme: \"Trust no one in whom the desire to punish is strong\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/trust-no-one-in-whom-the-desire-to-punish-is-strong/"},{"slug":"trust-yourself-create-the-kind-of-self-that-you-will-be","q":"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life","n":"trust yourself create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life","c":"disputed","real":"Foster C. McClellan","credited":"Golda Meir","credit":"Documented under Foster C. McClellan (source: \"Poor Man's College\"); popularly misattributed to Golda Meir, whose works contain no trace of it.","cite":"Foster C. McClellan, quoted in \"Poor Man's College,\" as recorded in The Quotations Page (quotationspage.com, quote 7993) and Quotes.net (quote 42999). No primary Golda Meir source is documented.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Foster C. McClellan — dates uncertain. Theme: \"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/trust-yourself-create-the-kind-of-self-that-you-will-be/"},{"slug":"truth-is-everybody-is-going-to-hurt-you-you-just-gotta-find","q":"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for","n":"truth is everybody is going to hurt you you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for","c":"disputed","real":"Bob Marley","credited":"Bob Marley","credit":"Popularly attributed to Bob Marley, but unsourced — no song, interview, or writing contains it, and it is untraceable before ~2001, 20 years after his death. True author unknown.","cite":"No primary source; earliest documented appearance c. 2001. See \"The Truth Is, Bob Marley Never Said That, Either,\" Houston Press, and Wikiquote, \"Talk:Bob Marley\" (unsourced quotes).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Bob Marley — Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter. Theme: \"Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/truth-is-everybody-is-going-to-hurt-you-you-just-gotta-find/"},{"slug":"truths-and-roses-have-thorns-about-them","q":"Truths and roses have thorns about them","n":"truths and roses have thorns about them","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (a traditional proverb)","credited":"Henry David Thoreau","credit":"Truths and roses have thorns about them. — an anonymous proverb (in print by 1809), often misattributed to Henry David Thoreau","cite":"Attributed to Henry David Thoreau but not original to him; documented in print before his birth, e.g. in Joseph Dennie and Asbury Dickins, The Port Folio, vol. 2, no. 1 (Philadelphia, July 1809), 431, as cited in Wikiquote.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, poet and naturalist. Theme: \"Truths and roses have thorns about them\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/truths-and-roses-have-thorns-about-them/"},{"slug":"twenty-years-from-now-you-will-be-more-disappointed-by-the","q":"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","n":"twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didnt 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","c":"disputed","real":"H. Jackson Brown Jr.","credited":"Mark Twain","credit":"Not Mark Twain. First documented in H. Jackson Brown Jr.'s book \"P.S. I Love You\" (1990), where Brown credited his mother. The passage appears nowhere in Twain's works. — Quotle.info","cite":"H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You (Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1990). Earliest documented source per Garson O'Toole, Quote Investigator, \"Twenty Years From Now You Will Be More Disappointed By The Things You Didn't Do,\" 29 Sept. 2011.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of H. Jackson Brown Jr. — American author, best known for Life's Little Instruction Book. Theme: \"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\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/twenty-years-from-now-you-will-be-more-disappointed-by-the/"},{"slug":"two-roads-diverged-in-a-wood-and-i-took-the-one-less","q":"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by","n":"two roads diverged in a wood and i took the one less traveled by","c":"verified","real":"Robert Frost","credited":"","credit":"Robert Frost, \"The Road Not Taken,\" Mountain Interval (1916)","cite":"Frost, Robert. \"The Road Not Taken.\" Mountain Interval. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1916. First published in The Atlantic Monthly, August 1915.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Robert Frost — American poet, four-time Pulitzer Prize winner, U.S. Poet Laureate (1958–1959). Theme: \"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/two-roads-diverged-in-a-wood-and-i-took-the-one-less/"},{"slug":"united-we-stand-divided-we-fall","q":"United we stand, divided we fall","n":"united we stand divided we fall","c":"disputed","real":"Aesop","credited":"Aesop","credit":"United we stand, divided we fall. — English proverb (John Dickinson, \"The Liberty Song,\" 1768); later printed as the moral to Aesop's \"The Four Oxen and the Lion,\" trans. Joseph Jacobs, 1894.","cite":"Aesop. \"The Four Oxen and the Lion.\" In The Fables of Æsop, translated by Joseph Jacobs, 122–23. London: Macmillan, 1894. Earliest English phrasing documented in John Dickinson, \"The Liberty Song\" (1768).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Aesop — semi-legendary Greek fabulist. Theme: \"United we stand, divided we fall\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/united-we-stand-divided-we-fall/"},{"slug":"unlimited-power-is-apt-to-corrupt-the-minds-of-those-who","q":"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it","n":"unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it","c":"verified","real":"William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham","credited":"","credit":"— William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham, speech in the House of Lords, 9 January 1770","cite":"William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. Speech in the House of Lords, 9 January 1770. In The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons. London: Aylott & Jones, 1848, pp. 93–95.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Pitt the Elder, 1st Earl of Chatham — British statesman & orator, twice effective head of government. Theme: \"Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/unlimited-power-is-apt-to-corrupt-the-minds-of-those-who/"},{"slug":"very-little-is-needed-to-make-a-happy-life","q":"Very little is needed to make a happy life","n":"very little is needed to make a happy life","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"","credit":"Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book VII, 67 (trans. George Long, 1862)","cite":"Marcus Aurelius. Meditations, Book VII, 67. Translated by George Long. London: Bell & Daldy, 1862 (Greek original composed c. 170–180 AD).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"Very little is needed to make a happy life\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/very-little-is-needed-to-make-a-happy-life/"},{"slug":"victory-belongs-to-the-most-persevering","q":"Victory belongs to the most persevering","n":"victory belongs to the most persevering","c":"attributed","real":"Napoleon Bonaparte","credited":"","credit":"Victory belongs to the most persevering. —attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte (no primary source; earliest documented in an 1888 quotation compilation)","cite":"Earliest documented in Julia B. Hoitt, comp., Excellent Quotations for Home and School (1888), 51 — attributing the line to Napoleon I with no primary reference.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Napoleon Bonaparte — French general, First Consul & Emperor of the French. Theme: \"Victory belongs to the most persevering\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/victory-belongs-to-the-most-persevering/"},{"slug":"vision-is-the-art-of-seeing-what-is-invisible-to-others","q":"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others","n":"vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others","c":"disputed","real":"Jonathan Swift","credited":"Jonathan Swift","credit":"Jonathan Swift's actual line is \"Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible,\" from Thoughts on Various Subjects. The popular \"…seeing what is invisible to others\" is a later paraphrase found in none of his works.","cite":"Jonathan Swift, \"Thoughts on Various Subjects,\" in The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, vol. 10 (early 18th c.; collected in Miscellanies, 1706/1711). Genuine wording: \"Vision is the Art of seeing Things invisible.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Jonathan Swift — Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist & Dean of St Patrick's. Theme: \"Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/vision-is-the-art-of-seeing-what-is-invisible-to-others/"},{"slug":"watch-your-thoughts-they-become-words-watch-your-words-they","q":"Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny","n":"watch your thoughts they become words watch your words they become actions watch your actions they become habits watch your habits they become character watch your character it becomes your destiny","c":"disputed","real":"Frank Outlaw","credited":"Gautama Buddha","credit":"Not said by the Buddha. Earliest documented in the San Antonio Light (May 1977), crediting grocer Frank Outlaw; built on 19th-century Christian precursors. — Quotle.info","cite":"Quote Investigator, \"Watch Your Thoughts, They Become Words; Watch Your Words, They Become Actions,\" earliest documented in the San Antonio Light (San Antonio, TX), May 1977, crediting Frank Outlaw; with 19th-century precursors.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Frank Outlaw — American grocer, president of the Bi-Lo supermarket chain. Theme: \"Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, it becomes your destiny\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/watch-your-thoughts-they-become-words-watch-your-words-they/"},{"slug":"water-water-everywhere-and-not-a-drop-to-drink","q":"Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink","n":"water water everywhere and not a drop to drink","c":"disputed","real":"Samuel Taylor Coleridge","credited":"\"…and not a drop to drink\"","credit":"Samuel Taylor Coleridge, \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner\" (1798). The real line reads: \"Water, water, every where, / Nor any drop to drink.\"","cite":"Samuel Taylor Coleridge, \"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,\" in Lyrical Ballads (London: J. & A. Arch, 1798), Part the Second.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Samuel Taylor Coleridge — English Romantic poet, critic & philosopher. Theme: \"Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/water-water-everywhere-and-not-a-drop-to-drink/"},{"slug":"we-all-have-our-own-life-to-pursue-our-own-kind-of-dream-to","q":"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving","n":"we all have our own life to pursue our own kind of dream to be weaving","c":"disputed","real":"Louisa May Alcott (credited, unconfirmed)","credited":"Quote-aggregator and inspirational-quote sites (BrainyQuote, Goodreads, AZQuotes, PassItOn, and others)","credit":"— attributed to Louisa May Alcott (unverified)","cite":"No verified primary source; earliest documented appearances are uncited entries on 21st-century inspirational-quote aggregator sites (e.g. Goodreads, BrainyQuote, AZQuotes), each crediting \"Louisa May Alcott\" with no title, date, or edition.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Louisa May Alcott — American novelist, author of Little Women. Theme: \"We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-all-have-our-own-life-to-pursue-our-own-kind-of-dream-to/"},{"slug":"we-are-all-a-little-weird-and-lifes-a-little-weird-and-when","q":"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love","n":"we are all a little weird and lifes a little weird and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love","c":"disputed","real":"Robert Fulghum","credited":"Dr. Seuss","credit":"Robert Fulghum, True Love (1997) — original: \"…fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.\" Often misattributed to Dr. Seuss.","cite":"Robert Fulghum, True Love: Stories Told To and By Robert Fulghum (New York: HarperCollins, 1997), section \"Perspective.\" Origin traced by Quote Investigator, \"We Fall Into Mutually Satisfying Weirdness and Call It Love,\" 14 Feb. 2014.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Robert Fulghum — American author & Unitarian minister. Theme: \"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-are-all-a-little-weird-and-lifes-a-little-weird-and-when/"},{"slug":"we-are-all-in-the-gutter-but-some-of-us-are-looking-at-the","q":"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars","n":"we are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars","c":"verified","real":"Oscar Wilde","credited":"","credit":"Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act III","cite":"Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman (London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893; first produced 1892), Act III.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Oscar Wilde — Irish playwright, poet & wit. Theme: \"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-are-all-in-the-gutter-but-some-of-us-are-looking-at-the/"},{"slug":"we-are-born-crying-live-complaining-and-die-disappointed","q":"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed","n":"we are born crying live complaining and die disappointed","c":"attributed","real":"Thomas Fuller","credited":"","credit":"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed. —Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia (1732)","cite":"Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British (London: Barker et al., 1732), p. 236.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Fuller — English physician & aphorist; compiler of Gnomologia (1732). Theme: \"We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-are-born-crying-live-complaining-and-die-disappointed/"},{"slug":"we-are-generally-the-better-persuaded-by-the-reasons-we","q":"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others","n":"we are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others","c":"attributed","real":"Blaise Pascal","credited":"","credit":"— Blaise Pascal, Pensées, Section I, fragment 10. Pascal wrote the thought, in French, but this English wording is an uncredited rendering: no translator or edition can be traced to it, and it is not W. F. Trotter's. For a citable English, use Trotter's public-domain translation: \"People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others.\" (trans. W. F. Trotter, 1910).","cite":"Blaise Pascal, Pensées, ed. Léon Brunschvicg, Section I, fragment 10 (Paris: Hachette). English: Blaise Pascal, Thoughts, trans. W. F. Trotter (New York: P. F. Collier & Son, 1910), fragment 10. The wording \"We are generally the better persuaded…\" corresponds to no translation we could identify.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Blaise Pascal — French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher. Theme: \"We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-are-generally-the-better-persuaded-by-the-reasons-we/"},{"slug":"we-are-the-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-we-are-the-change","q":"We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek","n":"we are the ones weve been waiting for we are the change that we seek","c":"verified","real":"Barack Obama","credited":"","credit":"Barack Obama, remarks on the night of the Super Tuesday primaries, Chicago, 5 February 2008. Obama said it, but did not coin it: the first sentence closes June Jordan's \"Poem for South African Women,\" presented at the United Nations, 9 August 1978. Via quotle.info","cite":"Barack Obama, \"Remarks Following the 'Super Tuesday' Primaries and Caucuses,\" Chicago, IL, February 5, 2008, in Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara. The first sentence originates with June Jordan, \"Poem for South African Women,\" presented at the United Nations, August 9, 1978; collected in Directed by Desire: The Complete Poems of June Jordan (Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2005).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Barack Obama — 44th President of the United States · U.S. Senator, 2005–2008. Theme: \"We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-are-the-ones-weve-been-waiting-for-we-are-the-change/"},{"slug":"we-are-twice-armed-if-we-fight-with-faith","q":"We are twice armed if we fight with faith","n":"we are twice armed if we fight with faith","c":"disputed","real":"William Shakespeare (literary root)","credited":"Plato","credit":"Misattributed to Plato. The line appears in none of Plato's works; it is an unsourced modern paraphrase echoing Shakespeare's \"Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just\" (Henry VI, Part 2, c. 1591). — Quotle.info","cite":"William Shakespeare, 'Henry VI, Part 2' (c. 1591), Act 3, Scene 2: \"Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just.\" No source for the \"twice armed…with faith\" wording exists in Plato.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of William Shakespeare — English playwright & poet. Theme: \"We are twice armed if we fight with faith\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-are-twice-armed-if-we-fight-with-faith/"},{"slug":"we-are-what-we-repeatedly-do-excellence-is-not-an-act-but-a","q":"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit","n":"we are what we repeatedly do excellence is not an act but a habit","c":"verified","real":"Will Durant","credited":"","credit":"Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (1926) — summarizing Aristotle. Often misattributed to Aristotle himself.","cite":"Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926), chapter on Aristotle, \"Ethics and the Nature of Happiness\" (at p. 87 in the edition examined by the UMass Boston Quote/Unquote blog) — summarizing Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Bk. II.4 and Bk. I.7.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Will Durant — American historian & philosopher · Pulitzer Prize (1968). Theme: \"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-are-what-we-repeatedly-do-excellence-is-not-an-act-but-a/"},{"slug":"we-are-what-we-repeatedly-do-excellence-then-is-not-an-act","q":"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit","n":"we are what we repeatedly do excellence then is not an act but a habit","c":"disputed","real":"Will Durant","credited":"Aristotle","credit":"Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy (1926) — paraphrasing Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Commonly misattributed to Aristotle.","cite":"Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1926), 87 — paraphrasing Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Will Durant — American writer, historian & philosopher; author of The Story of Philosophy. Theme: \"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-are-what-we-repeatedly-do-excellence-then-is-not-an-act/"},{"slug":"we-are-what-we-think-all-that-we-are-arises-with-our","q":"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world","n":"we are what we think all that we are arises with our thoughts with our thoughts we make the world","c":"disputed","real":"Thomas Byrom","credited":"Gautama Buddha","credit":"Thomas Byrom, trans., The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha (1976) — a loose rendering of the text's opening, not the Buddha's documented words","cite":"Thomas Byrom, trans., The Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976), opening verses (1–2).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Byrom — English literary scholar & verse translator of the Dhammapada. Theme: \"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-are-what-we-think-all-that-we-are-arises-with-our/"},{"slug":"we-can-easily-forgive-a-child-who-is-afraid-of-the-dark-the","q":"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light","n":"we can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light","c":"disputed","real":"Plato","credited":"Plato","credit":"Attributed to Plato, but not found in any of his works — a modern line of unknown origin, misattributed. —Quotle.info","cite":"No primary source; earliest documented only as an uncited internet-era attribution to Plato. Nearest genuine antecedent: Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, Book II, lines 55–61, trans. W. H. D. Rouse (Loeb Classical Library).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Plato — Athenian philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle. Theme: \"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-can-easily-forgive-a-child-who-is-afraid-of-the-dark-the/"},{"slug":"we-cannot-go-back-and-start-over-but-we-can-begin-now-and","q":"We cannot go back and start over, but we can begin now, and make a new ending","n":"we cannot go back and start over but we can begin now and make a new ending","c":"disputed","real":"James R. Sherman (earliest documented form)","credited":"Zig Ziglar","credit":"Not verified as Zig Ziglar. Ziglar used the saying but credited \"Carl Bard\"; the earliest documented form is James R. Sherman, Rejection (1982). The exact wording here is a later paraphrase of unknown origin. — Quotle.info","cite":"James R. Sherman, Rejection (Golden Valley, MN: Pathway Books, 1982), as identified in Garson O'Toole, \"We Cannot Go Back and Start Over, But We Can Begin Now, and Make a New Ending,\" Quote Investigator, November 5, 2015.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of James R. Sherman — earliest documented form of the saying, 1982. Theme: \"We cannot go back and start over, but we can begin now, and make a new ending\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-cannot-go-back-and-start-over-but-we-can-begin-now-and/"},{"slug":"we-cannot-seek-achievement-for-ourselves-and-forget-about","q":"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community","n":"we cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community","c":"attributed","real":"Cesar Chavez","credited":"","credit":"attributed to Cesar Chavez. Published by the United Farm Workers as his words, but no primary source has been located, and it is not from the 1984 Commonwealth Club address it is usually credited to. Via quotle.info","cite":"No primary source located. Published without citation in United Farm Workers, \"Education of the Heart: Cesar Chavez in His Own Words,\" ufw.org (undated quote compilation), and quoted without citation in Barack Obama, \"Presidential Proclamation—Cesar Chavez Day, 2012,\" March 23, 2012.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Cesar Chavez — American labor leader & co-founder of the United Farm Workers. Theme: \"We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-cannot-seek-achievement-for-ourselves-and-forget-about/"},{"slug":"we-cant-help-everyone-but-everyone-can-help-someone","q":"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone","n":"we cant help everyone but everyone can help someone","c":"disputed","real":"Ronald Reagan","credited":"Ronald Reagan","credit":"widely credited to Ronald Reagan, but no documented source exists; the line does not appear in his presidential public papers. (Quotle.info)","cite":"No primary source located. Searched: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, via The American Presidency Project (Santa Barbara: University of California), full-text phrase search — 0 records across the complete corpus (all administrations), and 0 records when restricted to Ronald Reagan, 1981–1989. Earliest traceable appearances are undated, unsourced quotation-site entries.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Ronald Reagan — 40th President of the United States. Theme: \"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-cant-help-everyone-but-everyone-can-help-someone/"},{"slug":"we-choose-to-go-to-the-moon-in-this-decade-and-do-the-other","q":"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard","n":"we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard","c":"verified","real":"John F. Kennedy","credited":"","credit":"John F. Kennedy, \"Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort,\" 12 September 1962 — \"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.\"","cite":"John F. Kennedy, \"Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort,\" Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas, 12 September 1962. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John F. Kennedy — 35th President of the United States. Theme: \"We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-choose-to-go-to-the-moon-in-this-decade-and-do-the-other/"},{"slug":"we-delight-in-the-beauty-of-the-butterfly-but-rarely-admit","q":"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through","n":"we delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through","c":"attributed","real":"Maya Angelou","credited":"","credit":"widely attributed to Maya Angelou; no primary source has been located. Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented in an unsourced blog attribution (Aug 2011) and on Maya Angelou's verified Facebook page, 15 May 2013; no primary literary source has been located.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Maya Angelou — poet, memoirist and activist. Theme: \"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-delight-in-the-beauty-of-the-butterfly-but-rarely-admit/"},{"slug":"we-do-not-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are","q":"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are","n":"we do not see things as they are we see them as we are","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown","credited":"Anaïs Nin","credit":"Anonymous, not Anaïs Nin. Nin quoted the line in Seduction of the Minotaur (1961), crediting it to \"talmudic words\" — but Berakhot 55b is about dreams, and Quote Investigator finds variants back to 1831 with no known author. Via quotle.info","cite":"Anaïs Nin, Seduction of the Minotaur (Swallow Press, 1961), 124 — where the line appears as a quotation Nin credits to \"talmudic words,\" per the citation given in Quote Investigator, \"Quote Origin: We Don't See Things As They Are, We See Them As We Are,\" 9 March 2014, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/09/as-we-are/. Earliest documented variant: \"Things As They Are,\" The Atlas (London), 1 May 1831, as documented by Quote Investigator. Origin otherwise anonymous.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Anaïs Nin — French-born American diarist & novelist. Theme: \"We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-do-not-see-things-as-they-are-we-see-them-as-we-are/"},{"slug":"we-do-not-stop-playing-because-we-grow-old-we-grow-old","q":"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing","n":"we do not stop playing because we grow old we grow old because we stop playing","c":"disputed","real":"G. Stanley Hall","credited":"Benjamin Franklin","credit":"Often credited to Benjamin Franklin, but he never said it. The idea traces to psychologist G. Stanley Hall (Adolescence, 1904), building on Karl Groos (1896); the polished modern wording is anonymous. — Quotle.info","cite":"G. Stanley Hall, Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion and Education (New York: D. Appleton, 1904). Earliest documented English form; attribution history compiled by Quote Investigator, \"People Do Not Stop Playing Because They Grow Old\" (9 March 2024).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of G. Stanley Hall — American psychologist · founder of the American Psychological Association. Theme: \"We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-do-not-stop-playing-because-we-grow-old-we-grow-old/"},{"slug":"we-have-it-in-our-power-to-begin-the-world-over-again","q":"We have it in our power to begin the world over again","n":"we have it in our power to begin the world over again","c":"verified","real":"Thomas Paine","credited":"","credit":"Thomas Paine, Appendix to Common Sense (1776)","cite":"Thomas Paine, \"Appendix\" to Common Sense, 3rd ed. (Philadelphia: W. and T. Bradford, 1776).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Paine — English-born pamphleteer of the American Revolution. Theme: \"We have it in our power to begin the world over again\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-have-it-in-our-power-to-begin-the-world-over-again/"},{"slug":"we-have-just-enough-religion-to-make-us-hate-but-not-enough","q":"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another","n":"we have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another","c":"verified","real":"Jonathan Swift","credited":"","credit":"Jonathan Swift, \"Thoughts on Various Subjects\" (written 1706; first published 1711)","cite":"Jonathan Swift, \"Thoughts on Various Subjects,\" in Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (London: John Morphew, 1711); aphorism dated 1 October 1706.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Jonathan Swift — Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist & cleric. Theme: \"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-have-just-enough-religion-to-make-us-hate-but-not-enough/"},{"slug":"we-learn-wisdom-from-failure-much-more-than-from-success-we","q":"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery","n":"we learn wisdom from failure much more than from success we often discover what will do by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery","c":"verified","real":"Samuel Smiles","credited":"","credit":"Samuel Smiles, Self-Help (1859), ch. 11","cite":"Samuel Smiles, Self-Help; with Illustrations of Character and Conduct (London: John Murray, 1859), ch. 11, \"Self-Culture — Facilities and Difficulties.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Samuel Smiles — Scottish author, reformer & pioneer of self-improvement writing. Theme: \"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-learn-wisdom-from-failure-much-more-than-from-success-we/"},{"slug":"we-loved-with-a-love-that-was-more-than-love","q":"We loved with a love that was more than love","n":"we loved with a love that was more than love","c":"verified","real":"Edgar Allan Poe","credited":"","credit":"Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee (1849)","cite":"Poe, Edgar Allan. \"Annabel Lee.\" Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art, January 1850 (first authorized printing); first published posthumously in the New-York Daily Tribune, October 9, 1849.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Edgar Allan Poe — American poet, short-story writer & literary critic. Theme: \"We loved with a love that was more than love\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-loved-with-a-love-that-was-more-than-love/"},{"slug":"we-make-a-living-by-what-we-get-but-we-make-a-life-by-what","q":"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give","n":"we make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (anonymous)","credited":"Sir Winston Churchill","credit":"— Unknown (anonymous)","cite":"Earliest documented in \"Mirrorgrams,\" Altoona (PA) 'Mirror,' 13 December 1944, p. 8, col. 2 (unsigned); citation history compiled by Barry Popik, \"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Unknown (anonymous) — first documented 1944. Theme: \"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-make-a-living-by-what-we-get-but-we-make-a-life-by-what/"},{"slug":"we-must-use-time-wisely-and-forever-realize-that-the-time","q":"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right","n":"we must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right","c":"disputed","real":"Martin Luther King Jr.","credited":"Nelson Mandela","credit":"Martin Luther King Jr., \"Letter from Birmingham Jail,\" 16 April 1963 — \"We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.\" (Often misattributed to Nelson Mandela in reworded form.)","cite":"Martin Luther King Jr., \"Letter from Birmingham Jail,\" 16 April 1963. Reprinted in Why We Can't Wait (New York: Harper & Row, 1964).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Martin Luther King Jr. — minister and civil-rights leader. Theme: \"We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-must-use-time-wisely-and-forever-realize-that-the-time/"},{"slug":"we-shall-not-cease-from-exploration-and-the-end-of-all-our","q":"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started","n":"we shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started","c":"verified","real":"T. S. Eliot","credited":"","credit":"T. S. Eliot, “Little Gidding,” Four Quartets (1943)","cite":"Eliot, T. S. “Little Gidding.” In Four Quartets. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1943 (first published separately, Faber & Faber, 1942).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of T. S. Eliot — poet, critic & playwright. Theme: \"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-shall-not-cease-from-exploration-and-the-end-of-all-our/"},{"slug":"we-shall-overcome","q":"We shall overcome","n":"we shall overcome","c":"disputed","real":"The civil-rights movement (a traditional anthem)","credited":"Lyndon B. Johnson","credit":"'We shall overcome' — a gospel- and labor-rooted civil-rights anthem (from Charles Tindley's 1901 hymn; shaped by Zilphia Horton, Pete Seeger and Guy Carawan). Lyndon B. Johnson quoted it in his March 15, 1965 voting-rights speech — he did not coin it.","cite":"Lyndon B. Johnson, \"Special Message to the Congress: The American Promise,\" March 15, 1965 (spoken as \"And we shall overcome\"). Phrase originates in the anthem \"We Shall Overcome,\" rooted in Charles A. Tindley, \"I'll Overcome Some Day\" (1901) and published as \"We Will Overcome,\" People's Songs Bulletin (1948).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of 'We Shall Overcome' (the anthem) — anthem of the U.S. civil-rights movement. Theme: \"We shall overcome\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-shall-overcome/"},{"slug":"we-suffer-more-often-in-imagination-than-in-reality","q":"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality","n":"we suffer more often in imagination than in reality","c":"verified","real":"Seneca","credited":"","credit":"Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 13 (c. 65 CE), trans. Richard M. Gummere","cite":"Seneca. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Letter 13.4. Translated by Richard M. Gummere, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, vol. 1, Loeb Classical Library. London: Heinemann, 1917.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Seneca — Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman. Theme: \"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-suffer-more-often-in-imagination-than-in-reality/"},{"slug":"we-will-make-electricity-so-cheap-that-only-the-rich-will","q":"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles","n":"we will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles","c":"disputed","real":"Thomas Edison","credited":"Thomas Edison","credit":"— a later paraphrase of Thomas Edison, not his documented words. What the New York Herald actually reported on 4 January 1880: \"After the electric light goes into general use, none but the extravagant will burn tallow candles.\" Quote Investigator's earliest citation for the \"only the rich will burn candles\" phrasing is 2004 (as \"electric light,\" credited to Samuel Insull); the exact \"electricity\" sentence first appears in QI's record in 2008.","cite":"New York Herald, January 4, 1880, reporting Edison's remark at Menlo Park; earliest documented form of the saying, as traced in \"Quote Origin: We Will Make Electricity So Cheap That Only the Rich Will Burn Candles,\" Quote Investigator, April 10, 2012.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Thomas Edison — American inventor & electric-light entrepreneur. Theme: \"We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/we-will-make-electricity-so-cheap-that-only-the-rich-will/"},{"slug":"wealth-is-the-ability-to-fully-experience-life","q":"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life","n":"wealth is the ability to fully experience life","c":"disputed","real":"Henry David Thoreau","credited":"Henry David Thoreau","credit":"widely attributed to Henry David Thoreau, but found in none of his works; an unsourced modern aphorism.","cite":"No primary source. The genuine Thoreau parallel is Henry David Thoreau, \"Economy,\" in Walden; or, Life in the Woods (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1854): \"the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Henry David Thoreau — American essayist, naturalist & transcendentalist. Theme: \"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/wealth-is-the-ability-to-fully-experience-life/"},{"slug":"well-behaved-women-rarely-make-history","q":"Well-behaved women rarely make history","n":"well behaved women rarely make history","c":"disputed","real":"Laurel Thatcher Ulrich","credited":"Marilyn Monroe","credit":"Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, \"Vertuous Women Found,\" American Quarterly (1976) — original wording \"seldom\"; not Marilyn Monroe","cite":"Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, \"Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668–1735,\" American Quarterly 28, no. 1 (1976): 20 (original wording \"seldom\").","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich — American historian · Harvard University · Pulitzer Prize winner. Theme: \"Well-behaved women rarely make history\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/well-behaved-women-rarely-make-history/"},{"slug":"well-behaved-women-seldom-make-history","q":"Well-behaved women seldom make history","n":"well behaved women seldom make history","c":"verified","real":"Laurel Thatcher Ulrich","credited":"","credit":"— Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (1976)","cite":"Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. \"Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial Literature, 1668–1735.\" American Quarterly 28, no. 1 (1976): 20–40.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Laurel Thatcher Ulrich — Historian of early America. Theme: \"Well-behaved women seldom make history\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/well-behaved-women-seldom-make-history/"},{"slug":"were-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat","q":"We're gonna need a bigger boat","n":"were gonna need a bigger boat","c":"disputed","real":"Roy Scheider (ad-lib)","credited":"\"We're gonna need a bigger boat\"","credit":"You're gonna need a bigger boat. — Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) in Jaws (1975), dir. Steven Spielberg. Commonly misquoted as \"We're gonna need a bigger boat.\" The line was not in the screenplay: it was an on-set crew catchphrase that Scheider ad-libbed, per co-screenwriter Carl Gottlieb. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Jaws, directed by Steven Spielberg, screenplay by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, based on the novel by Peter Benchley (Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures, 1975). Line spoken by Roy Scheider as Chief Martin Brody; transcribed at Wikiquote and listed as #35 in AFI's 100 Years…100 Movie Quotes (2005). Not in the shooting script — ad-libbed on set, per co-screenwriter Carl Gottlieb, interviewed in The Hollywood Reporter.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Roy Scheider — American actor · played Chief Martin Brody in Jaws (1975). Theme: \"We're gonna need a bigger boat\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/were-gonna-need-a-bigger-boat/"},{"slug":"what-brings-no-benefit-to-the-hive-brings-none-to-the-bee","q":"What brings no benefit to the hive, brings none to the bee","n":"what brings no benefit to the hive brings none to the bee","c":"verified","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"","credit":"That which is not good for the swarm, neither is it good for the bee. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 6.54 (trans. George Long, 1862)","cite":"Marcus Aurelius. Meditations, Book 6.54. Translated by Robin Hard. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"What brings no benefit to the hive, brings none to the bee\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/what-brings-no-benefit-to-the-hive-brings-none-to-the-bee/"},{"slug":"what-does-not-kill-me-makes-me-stronger","q":"What does not kill me makes me stronger","n":"what does not kill me makes me stronger","c":"verified","real":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credited":"","credit":"Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1888), \"Maxims and Arrows,\" aphorism 8","cite":"Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1888), \"Maxims and Arrows,\" aph. 8; trans. Anthony M. Ludovici (Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1911).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Friedrich Nietzsche — German philosopher & classical philologist. Theme: \"What does not kill me makes me stronger\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/what-does-not-kill-me-makes-me-stronger/"},{"slug":"what-i-hear-i-forget-what-i-say-i-remember-what-i-do-i","q":"What I hear, I forget. What I say, I remember. What I do, I understand","n":"what i hear i forget what i say i remember what i do i understand","c":"disputed","real":"Xun Kuang (Xunzi)","credited":"Lao Tzu","credit":"Popularly attributed to Lao Tzu, but misattributed — it appears in no Laozi or Confucius text. The idea descends from the 3rd-century-BCE Confucian philosopher Xunzi (ch. 8, \"The Achievements of the Ru\"); the compact \"What I hear / say / do\" wording is a modern English paraphrase of unknown authorship.","cite":"Xunzi, \"The Achievements of the Ru\" (Ru Xiao), ch. 8, in Xunzi: The Complete Text, trans. Eric L. Hutton (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014). Popular \"What I hear, I forget…\" wording: anonymous modern English paraphrase, first publication undocumented.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Xun Kuang (Xunzi) — Chinese Confucian philosopher of the Warring States period. Theme: \"What I hear, I forget. What I say, I remember. What I do, I understand\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/what-i-hear-i-forget-what-i-say-i-remember-what-i-do-i/"},{"slug":"what-is-now-proved-was-once-only-imagined","q":"What is now proved was once only imagined","n":"what is now proved was once only imagined","c":"verified","real":"William Blake","credited":"","credit":"What is now proved was once only imagined. —William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Proverbs of Hell), c. 1790","cite":"William Blake, \"Proverbs of Hell,\" in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, plate 8 (composed c. 1790).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Blake — English Romantic poet, painter & printmaker. Theme: \"What is now proved was once only imagined\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/what-is-now-proved-was-once-only-imagined/"},{"slug":"what-lies-behind-us-and-what-lies-ahead-of-us-are-tiny","q":"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us","n":"what lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us","c":"disputed","real":"Henry Stanley Haskins","credited":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credit":"Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations in Wall Street (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1940), p. 131 (popular wording; QI transcribes p. 131 as 'lies before us'). Not Ralph Waldo Emerson.","cite":"[Henry Stanley Haskins], Meditations in Wall Street, with an introduction by Albert Jay Nock (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1940), 131. Published anonymously; the author was later identified as Haskins. Earliest documented instance per Quote Investigator, \"Quote Origin: What Lies Behind Us and What Lies Before Us are Tiny Matters Compared to What Lies Within Us,\" 11 January 2011.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Henry Stanley Haskins — Wall Street trader & aphorist. Theme: \"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/what-lies-behind-us-and-what-lies-ahead-of-us-are-tiny/"},{"slug":"what-we-achieve-inwardly-will-change-outer-reality","q":"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality","n":"what we achieve inwardly will change outer reality","c":"disputed","real":"Anaïs Nin","credited":"Plutarch","credit":"Anaïs Nin (1973), often misattributed to Plutarch","cite":"Anaïs Nin, \"On Truth and Reality,\" Journal of the Otto Rank Association 8, no. 1 (June 1973): 56. See also Quote Investigator, \"Whatever We Achieve Inwardly Will Change Outer Reality,\" 14 December 2016.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Anaïs Nin — French-American diarist & essayist. Theme: \"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/what-we-achieve-inwardly-will-change-outer-reality/"},{"slug":"what-you-do-makes-a-difference-and-you-have-to-decide-what","q":"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make","n":"what you do makes a difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make","c":"attributed","real":"Jane Goodall","credited":"","credit":"Jane Goodall (attributed) — widely credited to her but with no documented primary source","cite":"Jane Goodall, quotation widely attributed but with no documented primary source. Reproduced without citation by the Jane Goodall Institute and quote compilations; a reworded variant appears in the short film \"Dr. Jane Goodall's Final Message to the World.\" Earliest dated original: not located as of 16 July 2026.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Jane Goodall — British primatologist & conservationist. Theme: \"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/what-you-do-makes-a-difference-and-you-have-to-decide-what/"},{"slug":"what-you-do-speaks-so-loudly-that-i-cannot-hear-what-you-say","q":"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say","n":"what you do speaks so loudly that i cannot hear what you say","c":"disputed","real":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credited":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","credit":"Paraphrase of Ralph Waldo Emerson. Emerson's published wording (\"Social Aims,\" Letters and Social Aims, 1875): \"Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.\" The familiar \"what you do\" version is first documented in 1900.","cite":"Ralph Waldo Emerson, \"Social Aims,\" in Letters and Social Aims (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875), 95. The popular \"what you do\" wording is earliest documented in John Barnett Donaldson, \"The Life That Lasts,\" in The Two Talents, with Other Papers, Sermons, Leaders (Minneapolis: North & West Publishing Co., 1900), 205, per Quote Investigator.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Ralph Waldo Emerson — American essayist, lecturer & Transcendentalist. Theme: \"What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/what-you-do-speaks-so-loudly-that-i-cannot-hear-what-you-say/"},{"slug":"what-you-get-by-achieving-your-goals-is-not-as-important-as","q":"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals","n":"what you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals","c":"disputed","real":"Zig Ziglar","credited":"Henry David Thoreau","credit":"Zig Ziglar, paraphrased from See You at the Top (1975) — often misattributed to Henry David Thoreau","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"What You Get By Reaching Your Goals Is Not Nearly So Important As What You Become By Reaching Them,\" December 6, 2016, tracing the saying to Zig Ziglar, Biscuits, Fleas, and Pump Handles (1974) / See You at the Top (1975).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Zig Ziglar — American salesman & motivational author. Theme: \"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/what-you-get-by-achieving-your-goals-is-not-as-important-as/"},{"slug":"whatever-you-are-be-a-good-one","q":"Whatever you are, be a good one","n":"whatever you are be a good one","c":"disputed","real":"William Makepeace Thackeray","credited":"Abraham Lincoln","credit":"Not Abraham Lincoln. Earliest documented as \"Whatever you are, try to be a good one,\" credited to novelist William Makepeace Thackeray in Laurence Hutton's 1897 memoir. The Lincoln attribution first appears in 1946, with no source.","cite":"Earliest documented in Laurence Hutton, memoir serialized in St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks 24, no. 5 (March 1897): 409–413, quoting William Makepeace Thackeray; later collected in A Boy I Knew and Four Dogs (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1898).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William Makepeace Thackeray — English novelist & satirist. Theme: \"Whatever you are, be a good one\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/whatever-you-are-be-a-good-one/"},{"slug":"whatever-you-can-do-or-dream-you-can-begin-it-boldness-has","q":"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it","n":"whatever you can do or dream you can begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it","c":"disputed","real":"John Anster","credited":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe","credit":"John Anster, free translation of Goethe's \"Faust\" (1835) — often misattributed to Goethe himself","cite":"Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faustus, a Dramatic Mystery, trans. John Anster (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1835), \"Prelude at the Theatre.\" See Quote Investigator, \"What You Can Do, or Dream You Can, Begin It,\" 9 Feb. 2016.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John Anster — Irish poet & Regius Professor of Civil Law, Trinity College Dublin. Theme: \"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/whatever-you-can-do-or-dream-you-can-begin-it-boldness-has/"},{"slug":"when-a-father-gives-to-his-son-both-laugh-when-a-son-gives","q":"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry","n":"when a father gives to his son both laugh when a son gives to his father both cry","c":"disputed","real":"Yiddish (Jewish) folk proverb","credited":"William Shakespeare","credit":"Traditional Yiddish (Jewish) proverb — not Shakespeare. Author unknown.","cite":"Traditional Yiddish (Jewish) proverb, of unknown authorship; catalogued among Shakespeare misattributions by Wikiquote, \"William Shakespeare — Misattributed.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Yiddish proverb tradition — author unknown. Theme: \"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-a-father-gives-to-his-son-both-laugh-when-a-son-gives/"},{"slug":"when-a-man-does-not-know-what-harbour-he-is-making-for-no","q":"When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind","n":"when a man does not know what harbour he is making for no wind is the right wind","c":"verified","real":"Seneca the Younger","credited":"","credit":"— Seneca the Younger, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 71 (trans. Richard M. Gummere, 1920)","cite":"Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales, Letter 71 (\"On the Supreme Good\"), 3, trans. Richard M. Gummere, Loeb Classical Library, Vol. II (London: Heinemann; New York: Putnam, 1920).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Seneca the Younger — Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist & statesman. Theme: \"When a man does not know what harbour he is making for, no wind is the right wind\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-a-man-does-not-know-what-harbour-he-is-making-for-no/"},{"slug":"when-a-man-is-at-peace-with-his-gods-and-ancestors-his","q":"When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm","n":"when a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm","c":"verified","real":"Chinua Achebe","credited":"","credit":"Chika, priestess of Agbala, in Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (London: Heinemann, 1958), chapter 3. Note: the widely circulated version drops the second \"his\" and credits the line to Achebe himself.","cite":"Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart (London: William Heinemann, 1958), chap. 3.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Chinua Achebe — Nigerian novelist, poet & literary critic. Theme: \"When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-a-man-is-at-peace-with-his-gods-and-ancestors-his/"},{"slug":"when-a-man-is-tired-of-london-he-is-tired-of-life","q":"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life","n":"when a man is tired of london he is tired of life","c":"verified","real":"Samuel Johnson","credited":"","credit":"Samuel Johnson, in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), conversation of 20 September 1777","cite":"James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (London: Charles Dilly, 1791), conversation of 20 September 1777. Public domain.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Samuel Johnson — English writer, critic & lexicographer. Theme: \"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-a-man-is-tired-of-london-he-is-tired-of-life/"},{"slug":"when-everybody-thinks-alike-nobody-will-think-at-all","q":"When everybody thinks alike, nobody will think at all","n":"when everybody thinks alike nobody will think at all","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous","credited":"John F. Kennedy","credit":"anonymous saying, first recorded 1905 (not John F. Kennedy).","cite":"\"When everybody thinks alike, nobody will think at all.\" Earliest documented as an anonymous filler item in The Westminster (Philadelphia, 1905), per Quote Investigator (5 Nov. 2022). Cf. Walter Lippmann, The Stakes of Diplomacy (New York: Henry Holt, 1915), ch. IV, p. 51.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of John F. Kennedy — 35th President of the United States. Theme: \"When everybody thinks alike, nobody will think at all\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-everybody-thinks-alike-nobody-will-think-at-all/"},{"slug":"when-governments-fear-the-people-there-is-liberty-when-the","q":"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny","n":"when governments fear the people there is liberty when the people fear the government there is tyranny","c":"disputed","real":"John Basil Barnhill","credited":"Thomas Jefferson","credit":"Not Thomas Jefferson. His estate at Monticello lists this as spurious; the earliest documented source is John Basil Barnhill's 1914 debate on socialism, worded “Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.” The popular Jefferson version is a later paraphrase.","cite":"John Basil Barnhill, \"Indictment of Socialism (#3),\" in the Barnhill–Tichenor Debate on Socialism (1914): \"Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty.\" Misattributed to Thomas Jefferson; catalogued as spurious by the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Monticello.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of John Basil Barnhill — early 20th century. Theme: \"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-governments-fear-the-people-there-is-liberty-when-the/"},{"slug":"when-i-saw-you-i-fell-in-love-and-you-smiled-because-you","q":"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew","n":"when i saw you i fell in love and you smiled because you knew","c":"disputed","real":"Arrigo Boito","credited":"William Shakespeare","credit":"Not Shakespeare. The line is from Arrigo Boito's libretto for Verdi's opera Falstaff (1893), Act II — sung by Fenton: \"Come ti vidi m'innamorai, e tu sorridi perché lo sai.\" The popular English wording is an anonymous paraphrase.","cite":"Arrigo Boito (libretto), Giuseppe Verdi (music), Falstaff (opera, premiered Teatro alla Scala, Milan, 1893), Act II, Part 2. Original: \"Come ti vidi m'innamorai, e tu sorridi perché lo sai.\" English wording is a modern anonymous paraphrase; cf. William Weaver, trans. (1977).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Arrigo Boito — Italian librettist, composer & poet — wrote the libretti for Verdi's Otello and Falstaff. Theme: \"When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-i-saw-you-i-fell-in-love-and-you-smiled-because-you/"},{"slug":"when-i-was-a-boy-of-fourteen-my-father-was-so-ignorant-i","q":"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years","n":"when i was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant i could hardly stand to have the old man around but when i got to be twenty one i was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — an anonymous folk aphorism","credited":"Mark Twain","credit":"Commonly misattributed to Mark Twain; an anonymous saying first recorded in 1915, not found in Twain's works.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Gregory F. Sullivan), \"When I Was a Boy of Fourteen, My Father Was So Ignorant,\" Quote Investigator, Oct. 10, 2010; earliest documented in The Square Deal (December 1915), attributed to Mark Twain. No genuine source in Twain's works.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Mark Twain — American author & humorist (pen name of Samuel L. Clemens). Theme: \"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-i-was-a-boy-of-fourteen-my-father-was-so-ignorant-i/"},{"slug":"when-im-good-im-very-good-but-when-im-bad-im-better","q":"When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better","n":"when im good im very good but when im bad im better","c":"verified","real":"Mae West","credited":"","credit":"Mae West, I'm No Angel (1933)","cite":"Mae West, I'm No Angel, directed by Wesley Ruggles (Hollywood, CA: Paramount Pictures, 1933).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Mae West — American actress, playwright & screenwriter. Theme: \"When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad, I'm better\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-im-good-im-very-good-but-when-im-bad-im-better/"},{"slug":"when-in-rome-do-as-the-romans-do","q":"When in Rome, do as the Romans do","n":"when in rome do as the romans do","c":"disputed","real":"Saint Ambrose","credited":"Saint Ambrose","credit":"Not Saint Ambrose's words. His real advice (via Augustine, Letter 54, c. 390 AD) was about Saturday fasting; \"When in Rome, do as the Romans do\" is a later anonymous English proverb.","cite":"Augustine of Hippo, Letter 54 (to Januarius), ch. 2, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, vol. 1, trans. J. G. Cunningham (Buffalo: Christian Literature Company, 1887). Proverb wording: anonymous English, documented by 1777.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Saint Ambrose — Bishop of Milan, Doctor of the Church. Theme: \"When in Rome, do as the Romans do\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-in-rome-do-as-the-romans-do/"},{"slug":"when-men-even-unknowingly-are-to-meet-one-day-whatever-may","q":"When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle","n":"when men even unknowingly are to meet one day whatever may befall each whatever the diverging paths on the said day they will inevitably come together in the red circle","c":"disputed","real":"Jean-Pierre Melville","credited":"Gautama Buddha","credit":"Not the Buddha — invented by director Jean-Pierre Melville as the opening epigraph of his 1970 film Le Cercle Rouge.","cite":"Jean-Pierre Melville, dir. Le Cercle Rouge (Paris: Les Films Corona / Selenia Cinematografica, 1970), opening epigraph; the line was written by Melville and is not a genuine Buddhist saying.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Jean-Pierre Melville — French film director & screenwriter. Theme: \"When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-men-even-unknowingly-are-to-meet-one-day-whatever-may/"},{"slug":"when-one-door-of-happiness-closes-another-opens","q":"When one door of happiness closes, another opens","n":"when one door of happiness closes another opens","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (a saying that predates Helen Keller)","credited":"Helen Keller","credit":"recorded by Helen Keller in We Bereaved (1929); originally an older anonymous saying, not coined by her.","cite":"Earliest documented longer form: The New England Farmer (1909); reproduced by Helen Keller, We Bereaved (New York: Leslie Fulenwider, 1929). Origin traced in Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"When One Door Closes Another Opens,\" Dec. 3, 2018.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Helen Keller — American author, disability-rights advocate & lecturer. Theme: \"When one door of happiness closes, another opens\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-one-door-of-happiness-closes-another-opens/"},{"slug":"when-the-debate-is-lost-slander-becomes-the-tool-of-the","q":"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser","n":"when the debate is lost slander becomes the tool of the loser","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (anonymous, c. 2006)","credited":"Socrates","credit":"Misattributed to Socrates — no ancient source; a modern saying first traced online to May 2006.","cite":"Earliest documented in an anonymous personal website, May 2006; popularized via Goodreads, April 2008. No attestation in the works of Plato or Xenophon. See PolitiFact, \"No, Socrates didn't call slander the 'tool of the losers',\" October 8, 2018.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Socrates — Athenian philosopher, founder of Western moral inquiry. Theme: \"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-the-debate-is-lost-slander-becomes-the-tool-of-the/"},{"slug":"when-the-people-find-that-they-can-vote-themselves-money","q":"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic","n":"when the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — not Benjamin Franklin","credited":"Benjamin Franklin","credit":"Misattributed to Benjamin Franklin. There is no evidence Franklin said or wrote this; the idea's earliest documented appearance is a 1951 newspaper column, which credited a different wording to Alexander Fraser Tytler.","cite":"Attribution disputed. Earliest documented in Elmer T. Peterson, \"This Is the Hard Core of Freedom,\" The Daily Oklahoman (9 December 1951), where a differently-worded version was credited to Alexander Fraser Tytler. No source in Benjamin Franklin's works. See Wikiquote, \"Benjamin Franklin\" (Misattributed) and \"Alexander Fraser Tytler.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Benjamin Franklin — American statesman, printer & Founding Father. Theme: \"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-the-people-find-that-they-can-vote-themselves-money/"},{"slug":"when-they-go-low-we-go-high","q":"When they go low, we go high","n":"when they go low we go high","c":"verified","real":"Michelle Obama","credited":"","credit":"Michelle Obama, Remarks at the Democratic National Convention, Philadelphia, 25 July 2016.","cite":"Michelle Obama, \"Remarks by the First Lady at the Democratic National Convention,\" Wells Fargo Center, Philadelphia, 25 July 2016. Transcript, The White House (obamawhitehouse.archives.gov).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Michelle Obama — Lawyer, author & First Lady of the United States (2009–2017). Theme: \"When they go low, we go high\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-they-go-low-we-go-high/"},{"slug":"when-you-arise-in-the-morning-think-of-what-a-precious","q":"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love","n":"when you arise in the morning think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive to breathe to think to enjoy to love","c":"disputed","real":"Elbert Hubbard","credited":"Marcus Aurelius","credit":"Elbert Hubbard, The Fra, Vol. 12, No. 6 (c. 1914) — popularly misattributed to Marcus Aurelius","cite":"Elbert Hubbard, epigram in The Fra: A Journal of Affirmation 12, no. 6 (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters, c. 1914): 171. Popularly misattributed to Marcus Aurelius, Meditations.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Elbert Hubbard — American writer, publisher & founder of the Roycroft community. Theme: \"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-you-arise-in-the-morning-think-of-what-a-precious/"},{"slug":"when-you-come-to-a-fork-in-the-road-take-it","q":"When you come to a fork in the road, take it","n":"when you come to a fork in the road take it","c":"attributed","real":"Yogi Berra","credited":"","credit":"Yogi Berra (attributed) — popularized 1998; wordplay traceable to an anonymous 1913 newspaper joke","cite":"Garson O'Toole [Gregory F. Sullivan], \"Quote Origin: When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It,\" Quote Investigator, July 25, 2013. Earliest documented use: \"Wise Directions,\" Fort Gibson New Era and Correctionville News, July 31, 1913.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Yogi Berra — Baseball Hall of Fame catcher & folk philosopher. Theme: \"When you come to a fork in the road, take it\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-you-come-to-a-fork-in-the-road-take-it/"},{"slug":"when-you-have-faults-do-not-fear-to-abandon-them","q":"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them","n":"when you have faults do not fear to abandon them","c":"verified","real":"Confucius","credited":"","credit":"Confucius, The Analects, Book 1, Chapter 8 (trans. James Legge, 1861)","cite":"Confucius, The Analects, Book 1, Chapter 8, trans. James Legge, in The Chinese Classics, Vol. 1 (Hong Kong & London, 1861).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Confucius — Chinese philosopher, teacher & political thinker. Theme: \"When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-you-have-faults-do-not-fear-to-abandon-them/"},{"slug":"when-you-know-a-thing-to-hold-that-you-know-it-and-when-you","q":"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — this is knowledge","n":"when you know a thing to hold that you know it and when you do not know a thing to allow that you do not know it this is knowledge","c":"verified","real":"Confucius","credited":"","credit":"Confucius, The Analects, Book II, Ch. 17, trans. James Legge (1861)","cite":"Confucius. The Confucian Analects, in The Chinese Classics, vol. 1. Translated by James Legge. Hong Kong, 1861. Book II, ch. 17.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Confucius — Chinese philosopher, teacher & editor of the classics. Theme: \"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it — this is knowledge\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-you-know-a-thing-to-hold-that-you-know-it-and-when-you/"},{"slug":"when-you-reach-the-end-of-your-rope-tie-a-knot-in-it-and","q":"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on","n":"when you reach the end of your rope tie a knot in it and hang on","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (American folk proverb)","credited":"Franklin D. Roosevelt","credit":"is an anonymous American proverb (earliest known appearance: Life magazine, 1919), not a quotation of Franklin D. Roosevelt — despite the popular credit.","cite":"\"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on (Spurious Quotation).\" Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia, Thomas Jefferson Foundation (Monticello). Earliest documented citation: Life, 3 April 1919; recorded as an American Western proverb in California Folklore Quarterly (1946).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Anonymous (American folk proverb) — American Western proverb. Theme: \"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-you-reach-the-end-of-your-rope-tie-a-knot-in-it-and/"},{"slug":"when-youve-exhausted-all-possibilities-remember-this-you","q":"When you've exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't","n":"when youve exhausted all possibilities remember this you havent","c":"disputed","real":"Robert H. Schuller","credited":"Thomas Edison","credit":"Robert H. Schuller, Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do! (1983). Widely misattributed to Thomas Edison, who died in 1931.","cite":"Robert H. Schuller, Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do! (Thomas Nelson, 1983), 27. Earliest documented use: Helen Peikin's column, Sentinel Star (Orlando, FL), 9 September 1981, 22, credited to \"Dr. Robert Shuler\" — both citations per Quote Investigator, 21 October 2022.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Robert H. Schuller — American televangelist, pastor & motivational author. Theme: \"When you've exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven't\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/when-youve-exhausted-all-possibilities-remember-this-you/"},{"slug":"where-the-spirit-does-not-work-with-the-hand-there-is-no-art","q":"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art","n":"where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art","c":"attributed","real":"Leonardo da Vinci","credited":"","credit":"Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci (unverified — no known primary source)","cite":"No documented primary source. Earliest attestations are modern quotation collections crediting the line to Leonardo da Vinci; the phrase is absent from Wikiquote's sourced corpus and from the Rigaud translation of Leonardo da Vinci, A Treatise on Painting.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Leonardo da Vinci — Florentine painter, engineer & polymath. Theme: \"Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/where-the-spirit-does-not-work-with-the-hand-there-is-no-art/"},{"slug":"whereof-one-cannot-speak-thereof-one-must-be-silent","q":"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent","n":"whereof one cannot speak thereof one must be silent","c":"verified","real":"Ludwig Wittgenstein","credited":"","credit":"Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, proposition 7 (trans. C. K. Ogden, 1922)","cite":"Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. Translated by C. K. Ogden. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922, proposition 7 (p. 189). First published in German in Annalen der Naturphilosophie, 1921.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Ludwig Wittgenstein — Austrian-British philosopher of language & logic. Theme: \"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/whereof-one-cannot-speak-thereof-one-must-be-silent/"},{"slug":"whether-you-think-you-can-or-you-think-you-cant-youre-right","q":"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right","n":"whether you think you can or you think you cant youre right","c":"disputed","real":"Anonymous (a traditional motivational proverb)","credited":"Henry Ford","credit":"a traditional proverb, popularly but wrongly credited to Henry Ford","cite":"Earliest documented Ford attribution: a filler item in The Reader's Digest, September 1947 (Vol. 51, p. 64), as traced in Garson O'Toole, \"Whether You Believe You Can Do a Thing or Not, You Are Right,\" Quote Investigator, February 3, 2015.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Anonymous (traditional proverb) — documented by 1940 · idea from Virgil, c. 19 BC. Theme: \"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/whether-you-think-you-can-or-you-think-you-cant-youre-right/"},{"slug":"whoever-is-happy-will-make-others-happy-too","q":"Whoever is happy will make others happy too","n":"whoever is happy will make others happy too","c":"verified","real":"Anne Frank","credited":"","credit":"Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl (1952 translation), entry of 7 March 1944","cite":"Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, trans. B. M. Mooyaart-Doubleday (New York: Doubleday, 1952), entry of Tuesday, 7 March 1944.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Anne Frank — German-born diarist & Holocaust victim. Theme: \"Whoever is happy will make others happy too\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/whoever-is-happy-will-make-others-happy-too/"},{"slug":"with-all-this-manure-there-must-be-a-pony-somewhere","q":"With all this manure, there must be a pony somewhere!","n":"with all this manure there must be a pony somewhere","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown — an anonymous American joke","credited":"Ronald Reagan","credit":"not Ronald Reagan's line. The joke is anonymous, documented in print by January 1902 (a decade before Reagan was born). Reagan used the punchline on the record five times between 1981 and 1987, telling the full joke at least twice, and in every full telling it ran \"There's got to be a pony in here somewhere.\" He never said \"manure\" when telling it. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Ronald Reagan, \"Remarks and a Panel Discussion With Community Leaders on Welfare Reform,\" February 11, 1987, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office); online via Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. On the joke's pre-Reagan history, see \"Quote Origin: There Must Be a Pony Somewhere,\" Quote Investigator, December 13, 2013, which cites Advertising Experience (January 1902) as the earliest known printing. The popular \"With all this manure…\" wording matches no located transcript; its closest published form is Peter Robinson, How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life (New York: ReganBooks, 2003), though QI documents \"manure\" versions of the joke circulating anonymously from 1949 and William Safire connecting the tale to Reagan in the New York Times on March 11, 1984.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Ronald Reagan — 40th President of the United States · the joke's most famous teller. Theme: \"With all this manure, there must be a pony somewhere!\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/with-all-this-manure-there-must-be-a-pony-somewhere/"},{"slug":"with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility","q":"With great power comes great responsibility","n":"with great power comes great responsibility","c":"disputed","real":"Spider-Man (Stan Lee & Steve Ditko)","credited":"Voltaire","credit":"Not Voltaire. No such line appears in Voltaire's works. The earliest documented match is an anonymous French National Convention decree of 8 May 1793, and the modern wording was popularized by Marvel's Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962). — Quotle.info","cite":"\"Décret de la Convention nationale\" (8 May 1793), Collection générale des décrets rendus par la Convention nationale; earliest documented ancestor per Quote Investigator, \"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility\" (23 July 2015). Modern wording popularized in Stan Lee & Steve Ditko, Amazing Fantasy #15 (New York: Marvel Comics, Aug. 1962).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Stan Lee & Steve Ditko — Marvel Comics creators of Spider-Man. Theme: \"With great power comes great responsibility\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/with-great-power-comes-great-responsibility/"},{"slug":"without-music-life-would-be-a-mistake","q":"Without music, life would be a mistake","n":"without music life would be a mistake","c":"verified","real":"Friedrich Nietzsche","credited":"","credit":"Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols (1889), Maxims and Arrows, 33 — \"Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.\"","cite":"Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols [Götzen-Dämmerung, 1889], 'Maxims and Missiles' §33, trans. Anthony M. Ludovici (Edinburgh: T. N. Foulis, 1911). German: \"Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Friedrich Nietzsche — German philosopher, philologist & critic of morality. Theme: \"Without music, life would be a mistake\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/without-music-life-would-be-a-mistake/"},{"slug":"wonder-is-the-beginning-of-wisdom","q":"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom","n":"wonder is the beginning of wisdom","c":"attributed","real":"Socrates","credited":"","credit":"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom — attributed to Socrates. It's a paraphrase of Plato's Theaetetus (155d), where the actual text reads \"wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.\"","cite":"Plato, Theaetetus 155d, in Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12, trans. Harold N. Fowler (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1921).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Socrates — Athenian philosopher. Theme: \"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/wonder-is-the-beginning-of-wisdom/"},{"slug":"words-have-no-power-to-impress-the-mind-without-the","q":"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality","n":"words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality","c":"verified","real":"Edgar Allan Poe","credited":"","credit":"Edgar Allan Poe, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)","cite":"Poe, Edgar Allan. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838, ch. 12.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Edgar Allan Poe — American writer, poet & literary critic. Theme: \"Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/words-have-no-power-to-impress-the-mind-without-the/"},{"slug":"yes-we-can","q":"Yes we can","n":"yes we can","c":"verified","real":"Barack Obama","credited":"","credit":"Barack Obama, \"Remarks Following the New Hampshire Primary,\" Nashua, New Hampshire, 8 January 2008. Adapted from \"¡Sí, se puede!\", coined by Dolores Huerta of the United Farm Workers in 1972. Via quotle.info","cite":"Obama, Barack. \"Remarks Following the New Hampshire Primary.\" Nashua, New Hampshire, 8 January 2008. The American Presidency Project, University of California, Santa Barbara. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/remarks-following-the-new-hampshire-primary-2. On the phrase's origin, see Dolores Huerta Foundation, \"FAQ,\" and Barack Obama, \"Remarks by the President at Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony,\" 29 May 2012.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Barack Obama — 44th President of the United States, 2009–2017. Theme: \"Yes we can\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/yes-we-can/"},{"slug":"you-are-all-a-lost-generation","q":"You are all a lost generation","n":"you are all a lost generation","c":"attributed","real":"Gertrude Stein","credited":"","credit":"Gertrude Stein, in conversation, as recorded by Ernest Hemingway in the epigraph to The Sun Also Rises (1926)","cite":"Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), epigraph; attributed to \"Gertrude Stein in conversation.\" See also Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (1964), ch. \"Une Génération Perdue.\"","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Gertrude Stein — American writer, poet & Paris salon host. Theme: \"You are all a lost generation\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-are-all-a-lost-generation/"},{"slug":"you-are-never-too-old-to-set-another-goal-or-to-dream-a-new","q":"You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream","n":"you are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream","c":"disputed","real":"Les Brown","credited":"C.S. Lewis","credit":"Attributed to C.S. Lewis, but there is no source in his works. The earliest documented appearance is Les Brown's 1992 book Live Your Dreams; Quote Investigator credits Brown as the likely originator.","cite":"Les Brown, Live Your Dreams (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1992), section \"Never Too Old to Be Bold.\" Earliest documented appearance per Quote Investigator, \"You Are Never Too Old To Set Another Goal or To Dream a New Dream\" (Sept. 8, 2017).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Les Brown — American motivational speaker & author. Theme: \"You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-are-never-too-old-to-set-another-goal-or-to-dream-a-new/"},{"slug":"you-are-the-average-of-the-five-people-you-spend-the-most","q":"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with","n":"you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with","c":"attributed","real":"Jim Rohn","credited":"Jim Rohn","credit":"Attributed to Jim Rohn (1930–2009). Widely credited to him, but no primary source pins this exact wording to Rohn; earliest documented appearance is Jack Canfield's 2005 book The Success Principles.","cite":"Earliest documented close match: Jack Canfield with Janet Switzer, The Success Principles: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (New York: HarperCollins, 2005), chapter epigraph crediting Jim Rohn; origin analysis in Quote Investigator, \"You Are the Average of the Five People You Spend the Most Time With,\" 8 Aug 2022.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Jim Rohn — American entrepreneur & motivational speaker. Theme: \"You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-are-the-average-of-the-five-people-you-spend-the-most/"},{"slug":"you-can-discover-more-about-a-person-in-an-hour-of-play","q":"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation","n":"you can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation","c":"disputed","real":"Richard Lingard (earliest documented source)","credited":"Plato","credit":"Not Plato. Earliest match: Richard Lingard, A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman (1670); an anonymous proverb by 1857; mislabeled \"Plato\" only in the 1950s.","cite":"Richard Lingard, A Letter of Advice to a Young Gentleman Leaveing the University Concerning His Behaviour and Conversation in the World (Dublin, 1670); earliest attribution to Plato documented in the 1950s per Quote Investigator, \"You Can Discover More About a Person in an Hour of Play…\" (July 30, 2015).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Richard Lingard — Anglo-Irish clergyman, Dean of Lismore · wrote the 1670 pamphlet that is the line's earliest match. Theme: \"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-can-discover-more-about-a-person-in-an-hour-of-play/"},{"slug":"you-can-never-cross-the-ocean-until-you-have-the-courage-to","q":"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore","n":"you can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore","c":"disputed","real":"André Gide","credited":"Christopher Columbus","credit":"André Gide, Les Faux-monnayeurs (1925), tr. Dorothy Bussy, The Counterfeiters (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927), Third Part, ch. XV. Often misquoted as “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore” and misattributed to Christopher Columbus. Via quotle.info","cite":"André Gide, Les Faux-monnayeurs (Paris: Éditions de la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1925), pt. 3, chap. 14; translated by Dorothy Bussy as The Counterfeiters (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927), Third Part, chap. 15 — the Bussy edition numbers the chapter one higher than the French.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of André Gide — French novelist, critic and diarist · Nobel Prize in Literature, 1947. Theme: \"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-can-never-cross-the-ocean-until-you-have-the-courage-to/"},{"slug":"you-cannot-find-peace-by-avoiding-life","q":"You cannot find peace by avoiding life","n":"you cannot find peace by avoiding life","c":"disputed","real":"David Hare","credited":"Virginia Woolf","credit":"David Hare, screenplay for The Hours (2002)","cite":"Hare, David. The Hours: A Screenplay. London: Faber and Faber, 2008.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of David Hare — English playwright and screenwriter. Theme: \"You cannot find peace by avoiding life\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-cannot-find-peace-by-avoiding-life/"},{"slug":"you-cannot-help-the-poor-by-destroying-the-rich-you-cannot","q":"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong","n":"you cannot help the poor by destroying the rich you cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong","c":"disputed","real":"William J. H. Boetcker","credited":"Abraham Lincoln","credit":"Misattributed to Abraham Lincoln. Actually from Rev. William J. H. Boetcker, \"The Ten Cannots\" (1916).","cite":"William J. H. Boetcker, The Ten Cannots (leaflet, 1916); see \"Non-Lincoln 'You Cannot' Quotation,\" Abraham Lincoln Online.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of William J. H. Boetcker — American Presbyterian minister & motivational speaker. Theme: \"You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-cannot-help-the-poor-by-destroying-the-rich-you-cannot/"},{"slug":"you-cannot-shake-hands-with-a-clenched-fist","q":"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist","n":"you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist","c":"verified","real":"Indira Gandhi","credited":"","credit":"Indira Gandhi, New Delhi press conference, 19 October 1971 (reported in The New York Times). Note: she was repeating an older 1950s American saying, not coining it. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Sydney H. Schanberg, \"Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders,\" The New York Times, October 20, 1971, p. 6C (reporting Indira Gandhi's remarks of October 19, 1971). The phrase itself predates her, appearing in U.S. newspapers from at least 1953.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Indira Gandhi — Prime Minister of India. Theme: \"You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-cannot-shake-hands-with-a-clenched-fist/"},{"slug":"you-cant-cross-the-sea-merely-by-standing-and-staring-at","q":"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water","n":"you cant cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water","c":"attributed","real":"Rabindranath Tagore","credited":"","credit":"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. — attributed to Rabindranath Tagore (earliest documented in N. B. Sen's 1968 compilation; not found in any verified Tagore work)","cite":"Earliest documented in N. B. Sen, comp., Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore (New Delhi: New Book Society of India, 1968), under \"Adventure,\" attributed to Rabindranath Tagore without primary citation.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Rabindranath Tagore — Bengali poet, essayist & composer; first non-European Nobel laureate in Literature (1913). Theme: \"You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-cant-cross-the-sea-merely-by-standing-and-staring-at/"},{"slug":"you-cant-go-back-and-change-the-beginning-but-you-can-start","q":"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending","n":"you cant go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending","c":"disputed","real":"James R. Sherman","credited":"C.S. Lewis","credit":"Not by C.S. Lewis — the line appears in none of his works. The earliest documented version is James R. Sherman's 1982 book \"Rejection.\"","cite":"James R. Sherman, Rejection (Golden Valley, MN: Pathway Books, 1982), as identified in \"We Cannot Go Back and Start Over, But We Can Begin Now, and Make a New Ending,\" Quote Investigator, November 5, 2015.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of James R. Sherman — earliest documented source of the saying (1982). Theme: \"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-cant-go-back-and-change-the-beginning-but-you-can-start/"},{"slug":"you-cant-just-let-nature-run-wild","q":"You can't just let nature run wild","n":"you cant just let nature run wild","c":"disputed","real":"Walter J. Hickel","credited":"Walt Disney","credit":"Walter J. Hickel, governor of Alaska, defending the state's aerial wolf-control program in a 1992 NBC interview; collected in \"The Wit and Wisdom of Wally Hickel\" (1994). Frequently misattributed to Walt Disney, who died in 1966.","cite":"Walter J. Hickel, quoted in \"Former Alaska Gov. Hickel dead at 90,\" Anchorage Daily News, May 8, 2010 — remark made in a 1992 NBC interview on Alaska's aerial predator-control program. Collected in Malcolm B. Roberts, comp. and ed., The Wit and Wisdom of Wally Hickel (Anchorage: Searchers Press, 1994). Listed as misattributed to Walt Disney in Wikiquote, \"Walt Disney,\" Misattributed section, citing Living With Wolves (2005) by James Dutcher, p. 8.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Walter J. Hickel — Governor of Alaska (1966–1969, 1990–1994) & U.S. Secretary of the Interior. Theme: \"You can't just let nature run wild\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-cant-just-let-nature-run-wild/"},{"slug":"you-could-not-step-twice-into-the-same-river-for-other","q":"You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you","n":"you could not step twice into the same river for other waters are ever flowing on to you","c":"attributed","real":"Heraclitus","credited":"","credit":"You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you. — attributed to Heraclitus; the exact wording is Plato's paraphrase (Cratylus 402a), and Heraclitus's genuine fragment B12 reads differently","cite":"Plato, Cratylus 402a, where Socrates reports Heraclitus’s river doctrine; cf. Heraclitus, fragment DK 22 B12. Popular English wording from a public-domain late-19th-century translation of Bywater’s Greek text, as reproduced on Wikiquote.","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Heraclitus — Pre-Socratic philosopher of Ephesus. Theme: \"You could not step twice into the same river; for other waters are ever flowing on to you\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-could-not-step-twice-into-the-same-river-for-other/"},{"slug":"you-do-not-know-where-death-awaits-you-so-be-ready-for-it","q":"You do not know where death awaits you; so be ready for it everywhere","n":"you do not know where death awaits you so be ready for it everywhere","c":"verified","real":"Seneca the Younger","credited":"","credit":"Seneca the Younger, Moral Letters to Lucilius, Letter 26 (trans. R. M. Gummere, Loeb, 1917)","cite":"Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter 26, trans. Richard M. Gummere, Loeb Classical Library, Vol. I (London: Heinemann; New York: Putnam, 1917).","rights":"public-domain","img":"Evoking the world of Seneca the Younger — Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman & dramatist. Theme: \"You do not know where death awaits you; so be ready for it everywhere\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-do-not-know-where-death-awaits-you-so-be-ready-for-it/"},{"slug":"you-dont-have-a-soul-you-are-a-soul-you-have-a-body","q":"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body","n":"you dont have a soul you are a soul you have a body","c":"disputed","real":"George MacDonald","credited":"C.S. Lewis","credit":"Not C.S. Lewis. A 19th-century commonplace (documented from 1881) usually traced to George MacDonald; the exact modern wording matches Walter M. Miller Jr.'s A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959).","cite":"Earliest documented in R. Thornton, paper to the Church Congress (Newcastle, October 1881); attributed to George MacDonald in The British Friend (1892); cf. George MacDonald, Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1867). Exact modern wording in Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1959).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of George MacDonald — Scottish novelist, poet & Congregational minister. Theme: \"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-dont-have-a-soul-you-are-a-soul-you-have-a-body/"},{"slug":"you-dont-write-because-you-want-to-say-something-you-write","q":"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say","n":"you dont write because you want to say something you write because you have something to say","c":"verified","real":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","credited":"","credit":"F. Scott Fitzgerald, Notebooks (Notebook E, entry 330)","cite":"Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978, Notebook E, entry 330. An earlier, partial selection from the same notebooks appeared as \"Note-Books\" in The Crack-Up, edited by Edmund Wilson (New York: New Directions, 1945).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of F. Scott Fitzgerald — American novelist & short-story writer. Theme: \"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-dont-write-because-you-want-to-say-something-you-write/"},{"slug":"you-have-enemies-good-that-means-youve-stood-up-for","q":"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life","n":"you have enemies good that means youve stood up for something sometime in your life","c":"disputed","real":"Ed Greenwood","credited":"Winston Churchill","credit":"Not said by Winston Churchill. The earliest close match is Ed Greenwood, The Code of the Harpers (TSR, 1993); the sentiment echoes Victor Hugo (1845) and Thomas Jefferson (1782). — Quotle.info","cite":"Earliest documented close match: Ed Greenwood, The Code of the Harpers (Lake Geneva, WI: TSR, 1993). See Quote Investigator, \"You Have Enemies? Good…,\" 24 March 2022.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Ed Greenwood — Canadian fantasy author, creator of the Forgotten Realms. Theme: \"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-have-enemies-good-that-means-youve-stood-up-for/"},{"slug":"you-have-power-over-your-mind-not-outside-events-realize","q":"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength","n":"you have power over your mind not outside events realize this and you will find strength","c":"disputed","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"Marcus Aurelius","credit":"Modern paraphrase, popularly attributed to Marcus Aurelius — not found in any translation of the Meditations.","cite":"Wording not found in any published translation of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (2nd century AD); earliest documented as an anonymous modern paraphrase circulated on quotation sites. Nearest genuine sentiment: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book IV.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-have-power-over-your-mind-not-outside-events-realize/"},{"slug":"you-have-power-over-your-mind-not-outside-events","q":"You have power over your mind - not outside events","n":"you have power over your mind not outside events","c":"disputed","real":"Marcus Aurelius","credited":"No identifiable translator","credit":"Popularly attributed to Marcus Aurelius, Meditations — but this exact wording is a modern paraphrase that appears in no standard translation. The nearest genuine line is Meditations VIII.47.","cite":"Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Translated by George Long. London, 1862 (public domain). Nearest genuine wording at VIII.47; the popular one-liner \"You have power over your mind — not outside events\" matches no standard translation and is an undocumented modern paraphrase.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Marcus Aurelius — Roman emperor & Stoic philosopher. Theme: \"You have power over your mind - not outside events\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-have-power-over-your-mind-not-outside-events/"},{"slug":"you-know-youre-in-love-when-you-cant-fall-asleep-because","q":"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams","n":"you know youre in love when you cant fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams","c":"disputed","real":"Origin unknown","credited":"Dr. Seuss","credit":"Misattributed to Dr. Seuss — an anonymous, source-less internet saying that appears in none of his works.","cite":"No primary source. Earliest documented only as an anonymous saying circulated online and credited to Dr. Seuss; listed as misattributed in \"Dr. Seuss,\" Wikiquote, Misattributed section (accessed 2026).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) — American children's author, poet & cartoonist. Theme: \"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-know-youre-in-love-when-you-cant-fall-asleep-because/"},{"slug":"you-may-live-to-see-man-made-horrors-beyond-your","q":"You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension","n":"you may live to see man made horrors beyond your comprehension","c":"disputed","real":"Nikola Tesla","credited":"Nikola Tesla","credit":"Popularly attributed to Nikola Tesla, but unverified — the exact wording first appears in Dick Holdsworth's 1947 Esquire profile \"Ahead of His Time,\" written four years after Tesla's death. No contemporary source confirms it. — Quotle.info","cite":"Dick Holdsworth, \"Ahead of His Time,\" Esquire 28, no. 4 (October 1947): 124–125; as documented in \"Quote Origin: You May Live To See Man-Made Horrors Beyond Your Comprehension,\" Quote Investigator, August 22, 2016.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Nikola Tesla — Serbian-American inventor & electrical engineer. Theme: \"You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-may-live-to-see-man-made-horrors-beyond-your/"},{"slug":"you-may-say-im-a-dreamer-but-im-not-the-only-one","q":"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one","n":"you may say im a dreamer but im not the only one","c":"verified","real":"John Lennon","credited":"","credit":"John Lennon, \"Imagine\" (1971)","cite":"John Lennon, \"Imagine,\" on Imagine (Apple Records, 1971); words and music by John Lennon (co-credited to Yoko Ono from 2017).","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of John Lennon — English musician, co-founder of the Beatles & peace activist. Theme: \"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-may-say-im-a-dreamer-but-im-not-the-only-one/"},{"slug":"you-only-live-once-but-if-you-do-it-right-once-is-enough","q":"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough","n":"you only live once but if you do it right once is enough","c":"disputed","real":"Joe E. Lewis","credited":"Mae West","credit":"Joe E. Lewis (attributed, 1952); popularly misattributed to Mae West","cite":"Garson O'Toole [Quote Investigator], \"You Only Live Once\" (24 May 2012). Earliest cited instance: Hedda Hopper syndicated column (1952), quoting comedian Joe E. Lewis: \"You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.\"","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Joe E. Lewis — American nightclub comedian & singer. Theme: \"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-only-live-once-but-if-you-do-it-right-once-is-enough/"},{"slug":"you-will-continue-to-suffer-if-you-have-an-emotional","q":"You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. True power is restraint","n":"you will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you true power is sitting back and observing everything with logic true power is restraint","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown (anonymous)","credited":"Bruce Lee","credit":"Not Bruce Lee. This is an anonymous internet aphorism whose full wording first appears in an unattributed 2016 tweet; the Bruce Lee credit only surfaced in 2018. Sources: Quote Investigator; PolitiFact.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Quote Investigator), \"You Will Continue To Suffer If You Have an Emotional Reaction To Everything,\" QuoteInvestigator.com, 26 July 2019; earliest full instance: unattributed tweet, 24 March 2016.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Bruce Lee — Martial artist, actor & philosopher. Theme: \"You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. True power is restraint\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-will-continue-to-suffer-if-you-have-an-emotional/"},{"slug":"you-will-never-find-justice-in-a-world-where-criminals-make","q":"You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules","n":"you will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules","c":"disputed","real":"Unknown","credited":"Bob Marley","credit":"Attributed to Bob Marley, but misattributed — no documented source exists in any of his songs, interviews, or writings. Origin unknown.","cite":"\"You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules.\" Attributed to Bob Marley without source; listed as misattributed in \"Bob Marley,\" Wikiquote, accessed 2026. No primary Marley source located.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Bob Marley — Jamaican reggae musician & songwriter. Theme: \"You will never find justice in a world where criminals make the rules\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-will-never-find-justice-in-a-world-where-criminals-make/"},{"slug":"you-wouldnt-worry-so-much-about-what-other-people-think-of","q":"You wouldn't worry so much about what other people think of you if you realized how seldom they do","n":"you wouldnt worry so much about what other people think of you if you realized how seldom they do","c":"disputed","real":"Olin Miller","credited":"Eleanor Roosevelt","credit":"Often credited to Eleanor Roosevelt, but she never said it. The earliest documented version (December 1936) is credited to humorist Olin Miller, per Quote Investigator.","cite":"Earliest documented in the Reno Evening Gazette (December 1936), crediting humorist Olin Miller; see Garson O'Toole, \"Quote Origin: You'll Worry Less About What People Think of You When You Realize How Seldom They Do,\" Quote Investigator, September 9, 2014.","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of Olin Miller — active 1930s–1950s. Theme: \"You wouldn't worry so much about what other people think of you if you realized how seldom they do\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-wouldnt-worry-so-much-about-what-other-people-think-of/"},{"slug":"you-yourself-as-much-as-anybody-in-the-entire-universe","q":"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection","n":"you yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection","c":"disputed","real":"Sharon Salzberg","credited":"Gautama Buddha","credit":"Not a Buddha quote — a modern paraphrase popularized by meditation teacher Sharon Salzberg in her 1995 book \"Lovingkindness,\" loosely derived from Udana 5.1, which actually emphasizes not harming others rather than self-love.","cite":"Bodhipaksa, \"You Deserve Your Love and Affection,\" Tricycle, Fall 2013; cf. Sharon Salzberg, Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness (Boston: Shambhala, 1995). Source verse: Udāna 5.1, trans. Thanissaro Bhikkhu.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Sharon Salzberg — American meditation teacher & author. Theme: \"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/you-yourself-as-much-as-anybody-in-the-entire-universe/"},{"slug":"youll-never-find-a-rainbow-if-youre-looking-down","q":"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down","n":"youll never find a rainbow if youre looking down","c":"verified","real":"Charlie Chaplin","credited":"","credit":"You'll never find rainbows if you're looking down. — Charlie Chaplin, \"Swing Little Girl,\" the song he wrote and sang for the 1969 re-release of The Circus (1928). The widely shared \"a rainbow\" is a misquote. Via Quotle.info","cite":"Charles Chaplin, \"Swing Little Girl,\" opening song written and performed by Chaplin for the 1969 re-release of The Circus (1928). Lyrics published on the official Chaplin estate site, charliechaplin.com. Bourne Co. / Roy Export Company Establishment.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Charlie Chaplin — English actor, filmmaker & composer. Theme: \"You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/youll-never-find-a-rainbow-if-youre-looking-down/"},{"slug":"youre-dead-jim","q":"You're dead, Jim","n":"youre dead jim","c":"disputed","real":"Richard Matheson","credited":"","credit":"Dr. Leonard McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Star Trek: The Original Series, \"The Enemy Within\" (1966), written by Richard Matheson. Commonly misquoted as \"You're dead, Jim,\" which was never said.","cite":"\"The Enemy Within.\" Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 5. Written by Richard Matheson, directed by Leo Penn. Desilu Productions / NBC, first aired 6 October 1966.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Richard Matheson — American screenwriter & novelist · wrote Star Trek's \"The Enemy Within\" (1966). Theme: \"You're dead, Jim\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/youre-dead-jim/"},{"slug":"youre-never-too-old-too-wacky-too-wild-to-pick-up-a-book","q":"You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child","n":"youre never too old too wacky too wild to pick up a book and read to a child","c":"disputed","real":"Anita Merina","credited":"Dr. Seuss","credit":"Verse by Anita Merina for the NEA's Read Across America campaign (c. 1997); frequently misattributed to Dr. Seuss. Origin traced by Quote Investigator.","cite":"Anita Merina, reading verse for the National Education Association's \"Read Across America\" campaign, c. 1997; earliest documented printing in The Augusta Chronicle, March 1998. Origin traced by Quote Investigator, \"You're Never Too Old, Too Wacky, Too Wild, To Pick Up a Book, and Read to a Child,\" Nov. 16, 2014.","rights":"in-copyright","img":"Evoking the world of Anita Merina — author of the 1997 Read Across America reading verse. Theme: \"You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/youre-never-too-old-too-wacky-too-wild-to-pick-up-a-book/"},{"slug":"youth-is-wasted-on-the-young","q":"Youth is wasted on the young","n":"youth is wasted on the young","c":"disputed","real":"George Bernard Shaw","credited":"George Bernard Shaw","credit":"Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, but not found in his writings; the exact wording grew out of unsourced 1931 newspaper columns. Origin uncertain.","cite":"Garson O'Toole (Gregory F. Sullivan), \"Youth Is Wasted on the Young,\" Quote Investigator, September 7, 2015. Earliest strong match: Ted Cook, \"Cook-Coos\" syndicated column, February 1931; a looser unattributed variant credited to the Springfield Union, December 1931; exact modern wording first documented 1945 (Ann Pinchot).","rights":"uncertain","img":"Evoking the world of George Bernard Shaw — Irish playwright, critic & Nobel laureate. Theme: \"Youth is wasted on the young\". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.","u":"https://quotle.info/who-said/youth-is-wasted-on-the-young/"}]