Misattributed quotes

[Auld Phart]

Few years back, I enjoyed a book series that had Myth in all of its titles.

at the beginning of every chapter, the author inserted a quote, and attributed to the wrong speaker

such as:

"I can quit anytime"
S. Holmes

"It's an acquired taste"
H Lechter

I posted a quote the other day, "I have not yet begun to fight" and attributed it to G A Custer.
(Famous saying of John Paul Jones, not Custer. No one seemed to catch it)

Lets see who can come up with some odd quotes

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Few years back, I enjoyed a book series that had Myth in all of its titles.

at the beginning of every chapter, the author inserted a quote, and attributed to the wrong speaker

such as:

"I can quit anytime"
S. Holmes

"It's an acquired taste"
H Lechter

I posted a quote the other day, "I have not yet begun to fight" and attributed it to G A Custer.
(Famous saying of John Paul Jones, not Custer. No one seemed to catch it)

Lets see who can come up with some odd quotes

Myth "I will make America great again" will surely top your list next year "Believe me!"

 

[Hossfly]

"Hope and Change."
~~Anon

 

[Auld Phart]

Few years back, I enjoyed a book series that had Myth in all of its titles.

at the beginning of every chapter, the author inserted a quote, and attributed to the wrong speaker

such as:

"I can quit anytime"
S. Holmes

"It's an acquired taste"
H Lechter

I posted a quote the other day, "I have not yet begun to fight" and attributed it to G A Custer.
(Famous saying of John Paul Jones, not Custer. No one seemed to catch it)

Lets see who can come up with some odd quotes

Myth "I will make America great again" will surely top your list next year "Believe me!"

about what I expected from you

Try reading the OP again.

Better yet, have someone read it to you, then explain it

 

[Auld Phart]

"A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse"

R Reagan

 

[Dekster]

"give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"---

Lots of debate about that one--not Biblical and not ancient Chinese. First shows up in that way, albeit slightly different, in writings of Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie who said it was Chinese proverb but there is no evidence it actually was one.

 

[Auld Phart]

Go West, young man, Go West

Leonard Slye

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Few years back, I enjoyed a book series that had Myth in all of its titles.

at the beginning of every chapter, the author inserted a quote, and attributed to the wrong speaker

such as:

"I can quit anytime"
S. Holmes

"It's an acquired taste"
H Lechter

I posted a quote the other day, "I have not yet begun to fight" and attributed it to G A Custer.
(Famous saying of John Paul Jones, not Custer. No one seemed to catch it)

Lets see who can come up with some odd quotes

Myth "I will make America great again" will surely top your list next year "Believe me!"

about what I expected from you

Try reading the OP again.

Better yet, have someone read it to you, then explain it

What? You don't appreciate my word games?

 

[Auld Phart]

Few years back, I enjoyed a book series that had Myth in all of its titles.

at the beginning of every chapter, the author inserted a quote, and attributed to the wrong speaker

such as:

"I can quit anytime"
S. Holmes

"It's an acquired taste"
H Lechter

I posted a quote the other day, "I have not yet begun to fight" and attributed it to G A Custer.
(Famous saying of John Paul Jones, not Custer. No one seemed to catch it)

Lets see who can come up with some odd quotes

Myth "I will make America great again" will surely top your list next year "Believe me!"

about what I expected from you

Try reading the OP again.

Better yet, have someone read it to you, then explain it

What? You don't appreciate my word games?

Didn't understand my 2nd post either, I see.

Myth is a series of books by Robert Asprin.

Nothing to do with the thread other than as examples.

 

[Stratford57]

"All the happy families are happy the same way. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way".

Lev Tolstoy, "Anna Karenina"

Is this quote odd enough for you, Will Haf Ta?

 

[Auld Phart]

"All the happy families are happy the same way. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way".

L. Tolstoy "War and Piece"

Is this quote odd enough for you, Will Haf Ta?

All the happy families are happy the same way. Each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way".

Certainly odd, but I assume Tolstoy wrote it?

to follow the thread guidelines, I would have attributed it to Ann Landers, Abigal VanBuren, or Joyce Brothers

 

[Stratford57]

Yes, it was Tolstoy "Anna Karenina", not "War and Piece", sorry for misleading you.

Another good one from Anton Chekhov "Three sisters":

"A woman can be a man's friend in a following sequence only: at first she's a buddy, then she's a lover and only after that she's just a friend."

 

[Stratford57]

There is another very good quote from a Russian humorist, Mikhail Zadornov:

"If you don't eat your food like medicine, eventually you'll start eating your medicine like food."

Soooooo true....