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There Are Three Kinds of Lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
Mark Twain? Benjamin Disraeli? St. Swithin? Eliza Gutch? Charles Dilke? Charles Stewart Parnell? Robert Giffen? Arthur James Balfour? Francis Bacon? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: Statistical...
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A Person With One Watch Knows What Time It Is. A Person With Two Watches Is...
Mark Twain? Albert Einstein? Lee Segall? Lee Segal? J. Millar Watt? John Peer? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: According to a clever quip it is better to have one watch instead of two. The quip has...
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Inspiration Is for Amateurs—The Rest of Us Just Show Up and Get To Work
Chuck Close? Stephen King? Philip Roth? Harvey Mackay? Mark Twain? Charles Schulz? Rosalyn Drexler? John Barkham? Nocona Burgess? Jill Elaine Hughes? Dear Quote Investigator: An artist must wait...
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To Get the Full Value of a Joy You Must Have Somebody To Divide It With
Mark Twain? Arthur T. Pierson? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: To experience a joyful event completely one should share it with others. I think Mark Twain made a point similar to this in his...
View ArticleIt’s Not the Size of the Dog in the Fight, It’s the Size of the Fight in the Dog
Mark Twain? Dwight D. Eisenhower? Arthur G. Lewis? Clarence Edmundson? Bear Bryant? Harry Howell? Samuel B. Pettengill? Woody Hayes? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: When there is a...
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It Is Better To Take What Does Not Belong To You Than To Let It Lie Around...
Mark Twain? Merle Johnson? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Mark Twain has received credit for the following slyly comical remark justifying thievery: It is better to take what does not...
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Never Argue With Stupid People. They Will Drag You Down To Their Level and...
Mark Twain? George Carlin? Yul Brynner? Jean Cocteau? Bob Gray? Dilbert? Scott Adams? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Logic and careful reasoning are the ingredients of a constructive...
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When a Man Loves Cats, I Am His Friend and Comrade
Mark Twain? Robert H. Hirst? Susy Clemens? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Several books about cats contain a quotation credited to humorist Mark Twain stating that Twain was a friend and...
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Quote Origin: There Are Two Kinds of Teachers: The Kind That Fill You With So...
Robert Frost? Mark Twain? Margaret Pepperdene? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Prominent U.S. poet Robert Frost has received credit for a brilliantly vivid metaphor describing two types of...
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It Is Better To Deserve Honors and Not Have Them Than To Have Them and Not...
Mark Twain? Humphry Davy? Robert G. Ingersoll? Cato the Elder? Hugh M‘Neile? Cassius Marcellus Clay? Thomas Fuller? Question for Quote Investigator: A person of great merit may not receive any...
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Quote Origin: Be Careful About Reading Medical Books. You May Die of a Misprint
Mark Twain? Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.? Markus Herz? Ernst Freiherr von Feuchtersleben? Walter C. Alvarez? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: All kinds of medical advice is available on the...
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Joke Origin: A Clear Conscience Is Usually a Sign of a Bad Memory
Mark Twain? Steven Wright? Senator Sorghum? Philander Chase Johnson? Neal O’Hara? Felix Nieto del Rio? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: A morally upright individual strives to maintain a...
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Quote Origin: This Is Only a Work of Fiction. The Truth, As Always, Will Be...
Arthur C. Clarke? Stanley Kubrick? Mark Twain? J. B. S. Haldane? Question for Quote Investigator: Rapid computer hardware and software developments combined with extreme speculations about a...
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Quote Origin: I Never Was Ruined But Twice, Once When I Gained a Lawsuit, and...
Voltaire? Mark Twain? Richard Brinsley Sheridan? John Bright? Apocryphal? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Legal conflicts are extraordinarily expensive and time-consuming for all the...
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Quote Origin: Not a Day’s Work in All My Life. What I Have Done I Have Done,...
Mark Twain? Lawrence Pearsall Jacks? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The famous author Mark Twain once surprisingly proclaimed that he had done “not a day’s work in all my life”. He stated...
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Quote Origin: Anger Is an Acid That Can Do More Harm To the Vessel In Which...
Mark Twain? Ann Landers? Turkish Proverb? Mohandas Gandhi? Seneca the Younger? Frederica Mathewes-Green? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Intense feelings of anger affect the body and mind...
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Quote Origin: Habit Is Habit, and Not To Be Flung Out of the Window By Any...
Mark Twain? Mabel Thatcher Wellman? Ellen H. Richards? John Harvey Kellogg? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Longstanding habits are difficult to break. This notion has been expressed...
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Quote Origin: No Generalization Is Wholly True—Not Even This One
Mark Twain? Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.? Alexandre Dumas fils? Lady Mary Wortley Montagu? Ellen Osborn? Manley H. Pike? Ben Johnson? Benjamin Disraeli? Alexander Chase? Roger O’Mara? Anonymous? Question...
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Quote Origin: Annihilation Has No Terrors For Me, Because I Have Already...
Mark Twain? Isaac Asimov? Vincent van Gogh? Harold S. Kushner? Harold S. Kushner? Apocryphal? Illustration of a person who is searching from Unsplash Question for Quote Investigator: A famous author...
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Quote Origin: Definition of a Classic—Something That Everybody Wants To Have...
Mark Twain? Caleb Thomas Winchester? Frank Norris? Otto F. Ege? Apocryphal? Book shelf filled with classic works of literature from Unsplash Question for Quote Investigator: Classic works of...
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