Bundle Who actually said that Famous lines traced to their real authors — some survive the trip.
Finds
- A World Market for About Five Computers The most-quoted bad prediction in computing has no source
- Too-Ticky on uncertainty "All things are so very uncertain, and that's exactly what makes me feel reassured"
- All true stories end in death Hemingway wrote a longer, better sentence
- It ain’t bragging if you can do it Dizzy Dean said something slower and better
- I find ecstasy in living Emily Dickinson said it out loud; a 1940 anthology turned it into a letter
- The shoeshine boy and the stock market Wall Street's favourite exit signal, traced to a book from 1959
- “When People Show You Who They Are, Believe Them” Traced to a Wellesley commencement stage in May 1997
- When the bird and the book disagree A birdwatcher's proverb that Audubon never said
- Don't just do something. Sit there. Widely credited to Thich Nhat Hanh; first found in 1954, as orders written for men stationed alone on radar platforms at sea.
- Samuel Johnson on Concentration The most quoted line about focus was cover for a forgery
- Amelia Earhart on the cake bakers A 1932 award speech that turned a backhanded compliment into a rebuttal
- The People Have Spoken — The Bastards The best concession speech in American politics, possibly never conceded
- Echoes of Genius: Enduring Wisdom from Great Minds A self-published quote book arranged as a perpetual calendar