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ParaphrasedAdded Nov 6, 2026“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”Credited to Thomas Edison · The original: “Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know several thousand things that won’t work.”
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.”Credited to Mark Twain
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“Be the change you wish to see in the world.”Credited to Mahatma Gandhi
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“Men wanted for hazardous journey, small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful, honor and recognition in case of success.”Credited to Ernest Shackleton
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“L’État, c’est moi. (The state, it is I.)”Credited to Louis XIV
ParaphrasedAdded Nov 6, 2026“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”Credited to Henry David Thoreau · The original: “The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
MisattributedAdded Nov 6, 2026“Well behaved women rarely make history.”Credited to Marilyn Monroe, Eleanor Roosevelt and Anne Boleyn · Actually Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”Credited to Oscar Wilde and Dr. Seuss
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“How lucky am I to have people that make saying goodbye so hard.”Credited to A.A. Milne
ContestedAdded Nov 6, 2026“Standing on the shoulders of giants.”Credited to Isaac Newton
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”Credited to Michelangelo
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts.”Credited to Winston Churchill
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“If you’re not a liberal when you’re 25, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative by the time you’re 35, you have no brain.”Credited to Winston Churchill
MisattributedAdded Nov 6, 2026“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”Credited to Albert Einstein · Actually Narcotics Anonymous literature, 1981
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me bring love.”Credited to St. Francis of Assisi
ParaphrasedAdded Nov 6, 2026“A penny saved is a penny earned.”Credited to Benjamin Franklin · The original: “A penny saved is two pence clear.”
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now.”Credited to Mahatma Gandhi, Stephen Grellet and William Penn
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“Singing is praying twice.”Credited to St. Augustine
MisattributedAdded Nov 6, 2026“The earth has music for those who listen.”Credited to William Shakespeare · Actually Reginald Holmes, 1955
ParaphrasedAdded Nov 6, 2026“Heavy lies the crown.”Credited to William Shakespeare · The original: “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”
MisattributedAdded Nov 6, 2026“I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.”Credited to Goethe · Actually Haim G. Ginott, 1972
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“Everything in moderation, even moderation.”Credited to Oscar Wilde, Socrates, Benjamin Franklin, Voltaire and Mark Twain
ContestedAdded Nov 6, 2026“God helps those who help themselves.”Credited to The Bible and Benjamin Franklin
MisattributedAdded Nov 6, 2026“I apologize for such a long letter—I didn’t have time to write a short one.”Credited to Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot, Kurt Vonnegut and Benjamin Franklin · Actually Blaise Pascal, 1657
ParaphrasedAdded Nov 6, 2026“Beauty will save the world.”Credited to Fyodor Dostoevsky · The original: “Is it true, prince, that you once declared that ‘beauty would save the world’?”
ParaphrasedAdded Nov 6, 2026“The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.”Credited to Mark Twain · The original: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.”
MisattributedAdded Nov 6, 2026“You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”Credited to C.S. Lewis · Actually Walter M. Miller Jr.
UnverifiedAdded Nov 6, 2026“My dear Anya, I have once again lost everything. I swore to you that I would not go to the roulette table…”Credited to Fyodor Dostoevsky
MisattributedAdded Nov 6, 2026“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”Credited to Mark Twain · Actually Grant Allen, 1894

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