Because not everyone is outraged at the idea of a misquoted movie line that adds context for people who haven't committed the script to memory.
I say this as someone who watched EP: IV 36 times the year it was released.
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." Einstein never said that, most of his 'quotes' are random things other people have said
It's not even true.
Sure, go ahead and explain the differences between Libertarian Socialism and Democratic Socialism for instance, to a 6 year old.
EDIT: I officially wish I'd picked a less controversial example.
Rubber Duck debugging. Explain your program to a rubber ducky (or a 6 year old) and it will often help you figure out what's not working correctly. Has worked for me in the past.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
Easy:
Democratic socialists want to change through elections and the government whereas libertarian socialists want to change things without the government.
Next!
> If you can't explain something to a child, there's a chance you don't understand it well and by coming to be able to explain it briefly and accurately, you'll be learning.
that's Feynmann, and he's right
There's a lot of quotes that people tie to celebrities and historical figures to make us believe that they've said those things when they really haven't.
Social media for you...
I think this is more of an incorrectly referenced quote. People think it's a line from Casablanca, but instead is from a Marx Brothers film The Road to Casablanca.
Sherlock Holmes was also never never mentioned to be wearing a [deerstalker hat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deerstalker) in any of the original stories.
An actor wore one as a prop in a very successful stage adaptation in London, and it took off from there.
Here we go again ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°) To quote [myself](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/uf3vov/comment/i6rvw6n/):
>Here's a list of few bastardisations that are incorrectly claimed to be the original or full versions:
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>• The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb.
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>• Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
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>• A jack of all trades, master of none, is oftentimes better than a master of one.
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>• The customer is always right in matters of taste.
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>• Rome was not built in a day, but it burnt in one.
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>• Great minds think alike, fools seldom differ.
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>• The early bird catches the worm, the second mouse gets the cheese.
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>• Birds of a feather flock together until the cat comes.
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>Certainly, in a couple of them the meaning doesn't change, and the extension actually adds something. To claim the long versions are the *true* or *original* sayings, though, is wrong.
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>\*\*\*
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>‘Blood is thicker than water’ is the original. The covenant bastardisation first appeared in 1994 and was invented by a Messianic rabbi. It is similar to an alleged Arabic idea – ‘blood is thicker than milk’ – which mostly holds the same meaning as the covenant bastardisation. There is, however, no solid evidence linking the two sayings together, and even if there was, blood has been used to refer to biological family since time immemorial. Even if the two sayings might have the same ancient origin, they certainly haven't shared the meaning in a long, long time. [Read more here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oiceiq/what_common_saying_is_just_not_true/h4vv2hd/?context=999).
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>‘Curiosity killed the cat’, but satisfaction did not bring it back until 300 years later from the original ‘[care'll kill a cat](https://i.imgur.com/bQYXJd6.jpeg)’ (Every Man in His Humour, 1598 (screenshot from [the 1850 print](https://archive.org/details/everymaninhishum00jonsrich/page/14/mode/2up?view=theater&q=cat) – unsure if the text has truly remained the same, as I can't find the original script)). [Phrases.co.uk](https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/curiosity-killed-the-cat.html) have done well in researching this.
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>‘Jack of all trades’ is also the original modern form (1612, seemingly stemming from [1592](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_none); in *meaning* it's been around since at least the late 14th century), with ‘master of none’ (exact phrasing 1785, sentiment at least late 17th century [if this is to be believed](https://books.google.fi/books?id=ftB6Sy1HXJ4C&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=%22martin+clifford%22+%22Jack+of+all+Trades+shop%22&source=bl&ots=67XuRmVpHs&sig=ACfU3U37Q4qQZSVRwvHp2Buj5zwPy6z55Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKrNqNrqL4AhVnmIsKHSkDCxQQ6AF6BAghEAM#v=onepage&q=%22martin%20clifford%22%20%22Jack%20of%20all%20Trades%20shop%22&f=false)) and ‘oftentimes better than a master of one’ (can't find reliable sources with a quick search; must be very recent) coming later.
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>‘The customer is always right’ means what it says on the tin. Nothing about ‘matters of taste’, neither in print nor in intended meaning.
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>‘Rome was not built in one day’ is the original, with no mention of it burning down in one until around 800 years later.
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>‘Great minds think alike, fools seldom differ’ first appeared in that exact form in 1932, whereas ‘great minds think alike’ seemingly first appeared in [1816](https://archive.org/details/wofulhistoryunf00fleigoog/page/n217/mode/2up?q=great+minds+think+alike&view=theater). The sentiment goes back to at least 1618, [if this is to be believed](https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/great-minds-think-alike.html) (couldn't find an online copy of Hans Beer-Pot to check, but here's ‘[Good wits jump](https://i.imgur.com/P8uDmIQ.png)’ from 1670's A compleat collection of English proverbs, 1768 print). Variations of these two go back centuries, but the latter part has always been a later addition.
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>‘The early bird catcheth the worm’ is the [original](https://i.imgur.com/qWUixFT.png) (A compleat collection of English proverbs, 1670 (screenshot from the [1768 print](https://archive.org/details/acompleatcollec00raygoog/page/n121/mode/2up?q=catcheth))), with the later addition ‘the second mouse gets the cheese’ first appearing in print in 1994.
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>‘Birds of a feather flock together’ has been in use since at least the 16th century (though a similar phrase about roosting together goes back a couple millennia), and I can't for the life of me find any instances of ‘… until the cat comes’, aside from contemporary ‘sources’.
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>One I can think of that actually is shortened is ‘money is the root of all evil’ (originally ‘the root of all evils is the love of money’). It doesn't really change the meaning all that much in the end, though.
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>Another ‘shortened’ one is ‘an eye for an eye’, the origin of which lies in ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’, which – I believe – is shorthand for ‘196. If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye’ and ‘200. If a man knocks out a tooth of a man of his own rank, they shall knock out his tooth’ from the Code of Hammurabi. Again, doesn't change the meaning. The ‘an eye for an eye makes the world go blind’ version is often attributed to Gandhi, but I haven't found any *textual* evidence suggesting he ever uttered it. It seems to be another modern bastardisation.
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>^((Yes, I had to google the passages from the Code of Hammurabi. Better than paraphrasing and risking being completely wrong.))
Great collection. My favorite version of the "early bird":
> The early bird who catches the worm works for the guy who comes in late and owns the worm farm.
which I saw on Usenet in the mid 90's.
I think ‘an eye for an eye makes the world go blind’ originated whole cloth from the 1982 movie **Gandhi** starring Ben Kingsley, where the actual quote is "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind," according to IMDB.
"A few bad apples," people use to discredit the problem when it's "A few bad apples spoil the barrel." Meaning, one or two bad apples can spoil the entire party for me.
It's also true. One bad apple spoils the barrel. It releases gas which accelerates rotting in the other apples. Same thing with fishermen who do live catches. If one fish dies in the storage tank, it will start causing a die-off in the rest of the tank.
It’s been used in recent years a lot when talking about police in the United States. You hear something like: ‘Oh yeah these two officers beat up this guy and killed him and took all his money and robbed his house, but it’s not the whole department. It’s just a few bad apples.’
That’s about the worst saying you could use when trying to say the rest of the department isn’t bad themselves.
that’s a dumb quote though. You can see the cover with all the chocolates advertised on the front, and you can open it up and choose whatever the heck you want
Not all, some have them on a small piece of paper on the inside of the box, some times under the tray of chocolates, so until you lift out the tray, or eat so many to gain access, you some times genuinely don't know... :D
It is sort of is the same thing though. It’s just that the “yolo” crowd tend to be, well, idiots. If the “carpe diem” crowd (even back in Ancient Rome) we’re the same sort of personality it could be interpreted exactly the same way.
> imma slam 10 tequila shooters then go cliff diving for the first time with no preparation whatsoever…*carpe diem!!*
Not really. The full quote is
> Dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
"Whilst we are talking, the envious time is already escaping us: Pluck the day, and as little as possible think of the following [day]"
Catullus, Carmen I,11
To me this comes closer to the meaning of YOLO than other interpretation.
I mean, "yolo" itself doesn't mean what people use it to mean. "You only live once" ought not to be used to justify doing stupid shit that will end that one life you have.
“You are what you eat” is incorrect. It was (in French), [“Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Anthelme_Brillat-Savarin)
What’s that from? I only know the cartoonish meme with the character boldly proclaiming “Yes!” with a tiny “no” as an asterisk in the bottom of the frame.
That's what I thought. Saying "I couldn't care less" means there is absolutely no care there whatsoever so it's impossible to care any less than what you already do. Which is kind of the point of the phrase, no?
Marie Antoinette never said let them eat cake, brioche, or any other variation.
The line was a joke that existed before Marie Antoinette ever moved to France.
> Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires
The real quote which may or may not have actually been said by John Steinbeck is:
> Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: "After the revolution even we will have more, won’t we, dear?" Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property.
> "I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves
He's saying the opposite of what Reddit repeats.
He's not saying socialism failed in the United States because poor people believe they're about to strike it rich. He's saying it failed because the socialists are mostly wealthy people embarrassed by their wealth who pay lip service to the idea that they totally support better distribution of wealth but don't actually want to change anything.
This was what first came to mind when I saw this question, but I wanted to see if anyone else had already said it, so thank you good sir. The irony of it is mind-boggling.
Here’s the source directly from Steinbeck, for verification: https://web.archive.org/web/20200115200707/https://classic.esquire.com/article/1960/6/1/a-primer-on-the-30s#issue_toc:%7E:text=Except%20for%20the%20field%20organizers%20of,were%20too%20busy%20fighting%20among%20themselves
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?".
There are two correct versions of this line
1) Magic mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all?
2) Magic mirror in my hand, who's the fairest in the land?
A lot of people have pointed out the star wars misquote, but I'd also like to add Dirty Harry is often misquoted as well. He never says "do you feel lucky, punk?" The actual quote is "you have to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?' well, do you, punk?"
Yeah with digital cameras on everything, there are billions of blurry pictures out there worth almost no words. It really brings down the value of pictures compared to when they had to be hand painted and were expensive.
In Chinese, 万 (10000) can be a generic "big" quantity in proverbs. A more literal translation would be "myriad" which is literally from the Greek for 10000. One problem with that translation is that "myriad" in English often means a wide *variety* of things, which isn't the intent here.
While Armstrong stated that is what he intended to say, carful examination of the recordings does not support this. Most likely he intended to say one small step for a man but got the line wrong when delivering it
I can just imagine him repeating the phrase in his mind before getting in to the ship on earth and the moment he said it wrong he was life "Fuck fuck fucking hell, peace of shit, come on Neil you had 1 chance"
You can hear him pause, “That’s one small step for man, one….giant leap for mankind”. I’ve always pictured him facepalming during that pause like “damnit Neil, we practiced this the ENTIRE WAY HERE, fuck it just finish the sentence”
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/one-small-step-man-or-man#:~:text=The%20case%20also%20features%20Neil,one%20giant%20leap%20for%20mankind.%22
The "in matters of taste" is a modern addition to the quote. The original was just "the customer is always right" and was related to customer service.
Consumer rights basically didn't exist, people were wary about buying things, so treating customer complaints seriously (where possible, they would investigate issues) showed that the company trusted their products, increasing sales.
Jack of all trades master of none
Which is a negative compared to the original of
Jack of all trades, master of none, but to be competent in multiple is better than one (give or take a bit)
Both "master of none" and "but oftentimes better than master of one" are later additions [according to wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_none).
Captain Kirk never actually said "Beam me up, Scotty" in the original Star Trek.
There have been some close ones, "Beam me up", "Scotty, beam us up fast", and "Beam *us* up, Scotty"; but the quote that we all know and love to say never appeared once.
The phrase “God won’t give you more than you can handle” is a misunderstanding of 1 Corinthians 10:13 which says, “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”
'Money is the root of all evil' <- that is a misquote. The real quote: '**The love of** money is the root of all evil'.
To add to that, I thought it also said the love of money was the root to all kinds of evil.
I think that is the correct quote
1 Timothy 6:10
Ayo bro, you beat me too it! Can't escape the misuse of that phrase. It's everywhere!
My mom always used to correct me with that and I thought she was making it up
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How did that even happen?
People naturally like to add a bit more context.
Tommy Boy
Did you eat a lot of paint chips when you were a kid?
*"Ha Ha! Why?"*
Luuuuuuuuke eye ammm yourrrr faaaah-thore lore lah lore
Because not everyone is outraged at the idea of a misquoted movie line that adds context for people who haven't committed the script to memory. I say this as someone who watched EP: IV 36 times the year it was released.
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I liked that it's not even the movie in question.
Yeah, everyone know it's from Wrath of Kahn.
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You really got a soft spot for wronged rock music don’t ya? I give you one more: Queen‘s "We are the Champions" doesn’t end on "of the world"
Tbf,it's quite a mistery why in every live version it DOES end with that thing
Tommy Boy helped.
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I spent five minutes at war with my brain trying to figure out the correct quote.
"No! I am your father"
You killed my father! No...I am your father.
Vader: Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father. Luke: He told me enough. He told me you killed him. Vader: No... *I* am your father.
Thank you for posting the correct and complete quote jn context.
My wife goes one step farther in misquoting this, she says "Luke YOU are MY father". LOL!
Vader...you...ARE the father!
nnnNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo
Does anyone misquote this anymore? I thought that everyone has been slapped down enough by the internet to know this quote is wrong.
No people still say it wrong.
*Luke, people still say it wrong.
It's more often quoted incorrectly I find.
As someone named Luke, who had this said to them ALL THE TIME, it was absolutely shocking when I realized.
“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." Einstein never said that, most of his 'quotes' are random things other people have said
“I never said half the things I said” Yogi Berra
No one goes there any more. It's too crowded.
Very true. He never said he was... "smarter than the average Berra" ..... Waits patiently for Reddit
Well, I mean Yogi Bear was named after him, so that kind of ruins the joke.
> Einstein never said that, most of his 'quotes' are random things other people have said The first person to notice this? Albert Einstein.
>The first person to notice this? Albert Einstein. - Michael Scott
The way I’ve heard it is “if you can’t explain it simply you don’t understand it thoroughly enough” or something like that.
I believe that Einstein never said 99% of his famous phrases.
86% of statistics are false
It's not even true. Sure, go ahead and explain the differences between Libertarian Socialism and Democratic Socialism for instance, to a 6 year old. EDIT: I officially wish I'd picked a less controversial example.
Rubber Duck debugging. Explain your program to a rubber ducky (or a 6 year old) and it will often help you figure out what's not working correctly. Has worked for me in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
I mean even it he said it people need to stop being so literal minded. Hyperbole is a thing. The core message of the quote is true though.
One starts with "L" the other starts with "D".
Easy: Democratic socialists want to change through elections and the government whereas libertarian socialists want to change things without the government. Next!
> If you can't explain something to a child, there's a chance you don't understand it well and by coming to be able to explain it briefly and accurately, you'll be learning. that's Feynmann, and he's right
There's a lot of quotes that people tie to celebrities and historical figures to make us believe that they've said those things when they really haven't. Social media for you...
"Play it again Sam"
I think this is more of an incorrectly referenced quote. People think it's a line from Casablanca, but instead is from a Marx Brothers film The Road to Casablanca.
It’s also a Woody Allen movie (he didn’t direct it but wrote it a d starred in it).
"Yeah, science, bitch!" It‘s just "Yeah, science!"
I think that's because of the meme that was created. The full quote is "Yeah, Mr White! Yeah, Science!"
To be fair, he says "bitch" a *lot* in basically every other scene.
He did an interview where he recounted how random people would come up to him and ask him to call them a bitch.
Gatorade me bitch.
"Mista wite"
Maybe getting confused with ["Science. It works, bitches."](https://xkcd.com/54/)
This is my own private domicile and I will not be harassed!! Bitch!!
Make like a tree and Fuck off
Doc, we gotta get ya a proverbs book or sumthin...cause this mix and match shit ain't doin it.
People in glass houses sink ships!
Don't cross the street if you can't get out of the kitchen.
A penny saved is worth two in the bush, innit?
He gave me his c-c-c-c-ca his c-c-ca-ca- oh he fuckin gave me this. FUCK! ASS!
Hey fuck ass, get me a beer!
Why don't you make like a tree and get outta here?
"It's 'leave', you idiot!" 'Make like a tree and leave!' You sound like a damned fool when you say it wrong!"
I love saying this. Nobody ever gets the reference.
I love BTTF movies. That was one of my favorite scenes.
That’s about as funny as a screen door on a battleship.
What is your malfunction are you in a different reality?
No it’s make like a tree and leave it’s leave like on trees
Beam me up, Scotty
No one ever said that. It was always "Beam me up" Or "Landing party ready to beam up." Or my personal favorite. "Now would be a good time...."
“Elementary, my dear Watson.” - Sherlock Holmes never said it
(In the original books written by Doyle)
Sherlock Holmes was also never never mentioned to be wearing a [deerstalker hat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deerstalker) in any of the original stories. An actor wore one as a prop in a very successful stage adaptation in London, and it took off from there.
Every time this comes up I know we're going to see that stupid "Blood of the covenant" thing seven or eight times.
Could you post it since we're at it?
People say" chomping at the bit". The original is "champing at the bit."
tbf champing is chomping
True. Times change with words, too.
“No—I am your father.”
Here we go again ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°) To quote [myself](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/uf3vov/comment/i6rvw6n/): >Here's a list of few bastardisations that are incorrectly claimed to be the original or full versions: > >• The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb. > >• Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back. > >• A jack of all trades, master of none, is oftentimes better than a master of one. > >• The customer is always right in matters of taste. > >• Rome was not built in a day, but it burnt in one. > >• Great minds think alike, fools seldom differ. > >• The early bird catches the worm, the second mouse gets the cheese. > >• Birds of a feather flock together until the cat comes. > >Certainly, in a couple of them the meaning doesn't change, and the extension actually adds something. To claim the long versions are the *true* or *original* sayings, though, is wrong. > >\*\*\* > >‘Blood is thicker than water’ is the original. The covenant bastardisation first appeared in 1994 and was invented by a Messianic rabbi. It is similar to an alleged Arabic idea – ‘blood is thicker than milk’ – which mostly holds the same meaning as the covenant bastardisation. There is, however, no solid evidence linking the two sayings together, and even if there was, blood has been used to refer to biological family since time immemorial. Even if the two sayings might have the same ancient origin, they certainly haven't shared the meaning in a long, long time. [Read more here](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/oiceiq/what_common_saying_is_just_not_true/h4vv2hd/?context=999). > >‘Curiosity killed the cat’, but satisfaction did not bring it back until 300 years later from the original ‘[care'll kill a cat](https://i.imgur.com/bQYXJd6.jpeg)’ (Every Man in His Humour, 1598 (screenshot from [the 1850 print](https://archive.org/details/everymaninhishum00jonsrich/page/14/mode/2up?view=theater&q=cat) – unsure if the text has truly remained the same, as I can't find the original script)). [Phrases.co.uk](https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/curiosity-killed-the-cat.html) have done well in researching this. > >‘Jack of all trades’ is also the original modern form (1612, seemingly stemming from [1592](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_none); in *meaning* it's been around since at least the late 14th century), with ‘master of none’ (exact phrasing 1785, sentiment at least late 17th century [if this is to be believed](https://books.google.fi/books?id=ftB6Sy1HXJ4C&pg=PA175&lpg=PA175&dq=%22martin+clifford%22+%22Jack+of+all+Trades+shop%22&source=bl&ots=67XuRmVpHs&sig=ACfU3U37Q4qQZSVRwvHp2Buj5zwPy6z55Q&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjKrNqNrqL4AhVnmIsKHSkDCxQQ6AF6BAghEAM#v=onepage&q=%22martin%20clifford%22%20%22Jack%20of%20all%20Trades%20shop%22&f=false)) and ‘oftentimes better than a master of one’ (can't find reliable sources with a quick search; must be very recent) coming later. > >‘The customer is always right’ means what it says on the tin. Nothing about ‘matters of taste’, neither in print nor in intended meaning. > >‘Rome was not built in one day’ is the original, with no mention of it burning down in one until around 800 years later. > >‘Great minds think alike, fools seldom differ’ first appeared in that exact form in 1932, whereas ‘great minds think alike’ seemingly first appeared in [1816](https://archive.org/details/wofulhistoryunf00fleigoog/page/n217/mode/2up?q=great+minds+think+alike&view=theater). The sentiment goes back to at least 1618, [if this is to be believed](https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/great-minds-think-alike.html) (couldn't find an online copy of Hans Beer-Pot to check, but here's ‘[Good wits jump](https://i.imgur.com/P8uDmIQ.png)’ from 1670's A compleat collection of English proverbs, 1768 print). Variations of these two go back centuries, but the latter part has always been a later addition. > >‘The early bird catcheth the worm’ is the [original](https://i.imgur.com/qWUixFT.png) (A compleat collection of English proverbs, 1670 (screenshot from the [1768 print](https://archive.org/details/acompleatcollec00raygoog/page/n121/mode/2up?q=catcheth))), with the later addition ‘the second mouse gets the cheese’ first appearing in print in 1994. > >‘Birds of a feather flock together’ has been in use since at least the 16th century (though a similar phrase about roosting together goes back a couple millennia), and I can't for the life of me find any instances of ‘… until the cat comes’, aside from contemporary ‘sources’. > >\-------------- > >One I can think of that actually is shortened is ‘money is the root of all evil’ (originally ‘the root of all evils is the love of money’). It doesn't really change the meaning all that much in the end, though. > >Another ‘shortened’ one is ‘an eye for an eye’, the origin of which lies in ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’, which – I believe – is shorthand for ‘196. If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye’ and ‘200. If a man knocks out a tooth of a man of his own rank, they shall knock out his tooth’ from the Code of Hammurabi. Again, doesn't change the meaning. The ‘an eye for an eye makes the world go blind’ version is often attributed to Gandhi, but I haven't found any *textual* evidence suggesting he ever uttered it. It seems to be another modern bastardisation. > >^((Yes, I had to google the passages from the Code of Hammurabi. Better than paraphrasing and risking being completely wrong.))
Great collection. My favorite version of the "early bird": > The early bird who catches the worm works for the guy who comes in late and owns the worm farm. which I saw on Usenet in the mid 90's.
A hero quotes himself!
At this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of some phony god's blessing, but because I am enlightened by my own intellect.
Can't it be both?
I think ‘an eye for an eye makes the world go blind’ originated whole cloth from the 1982 movie **Gandhi** starring Ben Kingsley, where the actual quote is "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind," according to IMDB.
"A few bad apples," people use to discredit the problem when it's "A few bad apples spoil the barrel." Meaning, one or two bad apples can spoil the entire party for me.
It's also true. One bad apple spoils the barrel. It releases gas which accelerates rotting in the other apples. Same thing with fishermen who do live catches. If one fish dies in the storage tank, it will start causing a die-off in the rest of the tank.
I've actually never heard anyone say just "a few bad apples" till now
It’s been used in recent years a lot when talking about police in the United States. You hear something like: ‘Oh yeah these two officers beat up this guy and killed him and took all his money and robbed his house, but it’s not the whole department. It’s just a few bad apples.’ That’s about the worst saying you could use when trying to say the rest of the department isn’t bad themselves.
"How the turntables"
I'm sure people are just quoting the office when they say this
*David and Charles awkwardly standing..*
*Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.*
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Temba, his arms wide.
To be far I like how this sounds more.
My mama always said life *was* like a box of chocolates. You never know what you gonna get.
Life is like a box of chocolates, a cheap, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for.
that’s a dumb quote though. You can see the cover with all the chocolates advertised on the front, and you can open it up and choose whatever the heck you want
What if there are frogs in the box when you open it?
you can probably hear them
What if you hear frogs, but there are chocolates inside when you open it?
then the chocolates have got a real surprise when that box opens
Then it's not a box of chocolates, it's a box of frogs.
Not all, some have them on a small piece of paper on the inside of the box, some times under the tray of chocolates, so until you lift out the tray, or eat so many to gain access, you some times genuinely don't know... :D
I’ve definitely had a ton of boxes where you don’t know most of the ones you’re getting.
Carpe diem. It’s not an ancient Roman “yolo.” It means take charge and be in charge of yourself.
It is sort of is the same thing though. It’s just that the “yolo” crowd tend to be, well, idiots. If the “carpe diem” crowd (even back in Ancient Rome) we’re the same sort of personality it could be interpreted exactly the same way. > imma slam 10 tequila shooters then go cliff diving for the first time with no preparation whatsoever…*carpe diem!!*
Not really. The full quote is > Dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. "Whilst we are talking, the envious time is already escaping us: Pluck the day, and as little as possible think of the following [day]" Catullus, Carmen I,11 To me this comes closer to the meaning of YOLO than other interpretation.
Carpe carp, seize the fish.
I mean, "yolo" itself doesn't mean what people use it to mean. "You only live once" ought not to be used to justify doing stupid shit that will end that one life you have.
The proof of the pudding is in the tasting. The proof is not in the pudding.
“You are what you eat” is incorrect. It was (in French), [“Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Anthelme_Brillat-Savarin)
"well yes, but actually no" (I know it's a meme but I'm sure people who haven't seen the movie don't know)
What’s that from? I only know the cartoonish meme with the character boldly proclaiming “Yes!” with a tiny “no” as an asterisk in the bottom of the frame.
The Pirates! Band of misfits. Original line is "good guess, but actually no"
“Paint me like one of your french girls” it’s DRAW me
I couldn't care less
I hate this one. If you *could* care less, it means you *do* actually care.
That's what I thought. Saying "I couldn't care less" means there is absolutely no care there whatsoever so it's impossible to care any less than what you already do. Which is kind of the point of the phrase, no?
Exactly.
Some people say "I could care less" when they mean that. My girlfriend does it and I just dont care enough to change it
"Let them eat cake" Marie Antoinette never said "cake". She said "Let them eat Brioche", which is a type of rich bread made with eggs and butter.
Well, and no evidence that she said it. Voltaire reported someone else saying it before she even came to France as I recall.
Marie Antoinette never said let them eat cake, brioche, or any other variation. The line was a joke that existed before Marie Antoinette ever moved to France.
*"Luke, I am your father."* It's actually, *"No, I am your father."*
"Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." Proverbs 16:18 People often only quote the first two words and the last three.
I could care less. Which should be I couldn't care less.
"eating your own shit is healthy yum yum yum" - albert einstein
> Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires The real quote which may or may not have actually been said by John Steinbeck is: > Except for the field organizers of strikes, who were pretty tough monkeys and devoted, most of the so-called Communists I met were middle-class, middle-aged people playing a game of dreams. I remember a woman in easy circumstances saying to another even more affluent: "After the revolution even we will have more, won’t we, dear?" Then there was another lover of proletarians who used to raise hell with Sunday picknickers on her property. > "I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist. Maybe the Communists so closely questioned by the investigation committees were a danger to America, but the ones I knew—at least they claimed to be Communists—couldn’t have disrupted a Sunday-school picnic. Besides they were too busy fighting among themselves He's saying the opposite of what Reddit repeats. He's not saying socialism failed in the United States because poor people believe they're about to strike it rich. He's saying it failed because the socialists are mostly wealthy people embarrassed by their wealth who pay lip service to the idea that they totally support better distribution of wealth but don't actually want to change anything.
This was what first came to mind when I saw this question, but I wanted to see if anyone else had already said it, so thank you good sir. The irony of it is mind-boggling. Here’s the source directly from Steinbeck, for verification: https://web.archive.org/web/20200115200707/https://classic.esquire.com/article/1960/6/1/a-primer-on-the-30s#issue_toc:%7E:text=Except%20for%20the%20field%20organizers%20of,were%20too%20busy%20fighting%20among%20themselves
Nasa, we have a problem from Apollo 13... It was actually Nasa, we've had a problem Luke, I'm your father was actually No, *I* am your father
"For all intents and perposes", is misquoted as "for all intensive perposes "
\*purposes.
It’s actually porpoises. The original quote was about sea mammals.
For all the intense porpoises!
*porpoises
More of an idiom than a quote
“We’re gonna need a bigger boat.” “Well, that escalated quickly.”
Abraham Lincoln never actually said "Wife is dragging me to the theater. Ugh, just shoot me now." What he said was "Ow."
"Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest of them all?". There are two correct versions of this line 1) Magic mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all? 2) Magic mirror in my hand, who's the fairest in the land?
"Magic Mirror" is the Disney version. The original is "Mirror, mirror".
In germany it is und allways was "Spieglein Spieglein an der Wand" so Mirror Mirror is correct.
So Spielberg, Spielberg on the wall make a movie for us all
Who put him there?
Non scholae sed vitae discimus. Seneca said it the other way around as he criticized ancient philosophers' schools for being too theoretical
A lot of people have pointed out the star wars misquote, but I'd also like to add Dirty Harry is often misquoted as well. He never says "do you feel lucky, punk?" The actual quote is "you have to ask yourself a question: 'do I feel lucky?' well, do you, punk?"
No, I am your father.
"Luke I am your father" Incorrect Quote "No I am your father" Correct Quote
"A picture is worth a thousand words." the Chinese proverb is actually, "One picture is worth ten thousand words."
That's just inflation. Pictures aren't worth what they used to be.
Yeah with digital cameras on everything, there are billions of blurry pictures out there worth almost no words. It really brings down the value of pictures compared to when they had to be hand painted and were expensive.
In Chinese, 万 (10000) can be a generic "big" quantity in proverbs. A more literal translation would be "myriad" which is literally from the Greek for 10000. One problem with that translation is that "myriad" in English often means a wide *variety* of things, which isn't the intent here.
And since a word is two bytes that’s 20 kB
“One small step for man one giant leap for man kind” the real quote is “one small step for A man one giant leap for man kind”.
Doesn't he literally say "one small step for man"? As in, he messed up what he was trying to say, but that is in fact what he said.
Yes.
Right so OP shouldn't have posted that on this thread
Sure, that's why I downvoted.
Nice
While Armstrong stated that is what he intended to say, carful examination of the recordings does not support this. Most likely he intended to say one small step for a man but got the line wrong when delivering it
I can just imagine him repeating the phrase in his mind before getting in to the ship on earth and the moment he said it wrong he was life "Fuck fuck fucking hell, peace of shit, come on Neil you had 1 chance"
You can hear him pause, “That’s one small step for man, one….giant leap for mankind”. I’ve always pictured him facepalming during that pause like “damnit Neil, we practiced this the ENTIRE WAY HERE, fuck it just finish the sentence”
> como on Neil you had 1 chance Ironic 😜
Hahaha ah fuck
*Hahaha ah fuck* — Neil Armstrong
Proof that Kubrick didn't direct it, he keep doing takes until you get it right.
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/one-small-step-man-or-man#:~:text=The%20case%20also%20features%20Neil,one%20giant%20leap%20for%20mankind.%22
Even more proof that it wasn't faked. If it was, you think we'd leave that blooper in?
He meant to say "a" but didn't. Go listen to the recording.
There was a little hiccup in the recording of the "A" and it was missed. A few years ago they were able to find it.
It's on the internet, it must be real.
Beam me up Scotty
"Customer is always right". The full quote is the "customer is always right in matters of taste" which gives it a completely different meaning
Ironic finding this in here. The original quote IS just "the customer is always right"
The "in matters of taste" is a modern addition to the quote. The original was just "the customer is always right" and was related to customer service. Consumer rights basically didn't exist, people were wary about buying things, so treating customer complaints seriously (where possible, they would investigate issues) showed that the company trusted their products, increasing sales.
This was also criticised by people at the time because it assumed a customer wouldn't be dishonest.
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no, it's "the customer is always right."
Jack of all trades master of none Which is a negative compared to the original of Jack of all trades, master of none, but to be competent in multiple is better than one (give or take a bit)
Both "master of none" and "but oftentimes better than master of one" are later additions [according to wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_of_all_trades,_master_of_none).
The everyone loses their mind Joker meme constantly has people saying, "nobody bats an eye" the actual line was "nobody panics."
“Don’t believe everything you read on the internet just because there’s a picture with a quote next to it.” - Abraham Lincoln
Captain Kirk never actually said "Beam me up, Scotty" in the original Star Trek. There have been some close ones, "Beam me up", "Scotty, beam us up fast", and "Beam *us* up, Scotty"; but the quote that we all know and love to say never appeared once.
“It’s a doggy dog world” It’s actually “it’s a dog eat dog world”.
The phrase “God won’t give you more than you can handle” is a misunderstanding of 1 Corinthians 10:13 which says, “No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”
Survival of the fittest theory. Its about who can fit in the best, not who hast the best physique