Frazz by Jef Mallett for August 22, 2023

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    pearlsbs  about 1 year ago

    “Don’t believe everything you read on the internet.”― Abraham Lincoln

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    unfair.de  about 1 year ago

    You don’t need to know things. Make them up with confidence: there will always be enough people who want to believe and pay good money to spread the hogwash themselves.

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    Cactus-Pete  about 1 year ago

    Whatever the line is, it should be easy to figure out which of those three might have said it.

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    Yakety Sax  about 1 year ago

    “I didn’t say half the stuff they said I did.” Albert Einstein

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    markkahler52  about 1 year ago

    O say anything… people will either forget or remember.

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    Bilan  about 1 year ago

    To answer her question, a quote sounds more impressive when it came from a famous person known for their quotes.

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    Rhetorical_Question   about 1 year ago

    It sounds like a good idea?

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    c001  about 1 year ago

    That’s an easy one, Caulfield: T-shirt and poster makers have to sell their products.

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    P51Strega  about 1 year ago

    “The more I know about humanity the more I like my dog”. – widely attributed quote

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    The Orange Mailman  about 1 year ago

    Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

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    sprint  about 1 year ago

    my favorite quote: “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing after they’ve tried everything else” Winston Churchill

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    JRobinson Premium Member about 1 year ago

    If you’re trying to remember who said something, you’ll have about a 30% chance of being right if you say it was either Mark Twain or Dorothy Parker.

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    e.groves  about 1 year ago

    What’s he talking about?

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    goboboyd  about 1 year ago

    I’ve recently been pondering this myself. I’m going to start attributing them to some obscure person I meet on the bus. Or at least ‘You know, THEY say…’

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    sandpiper  about 1 year ago

    Wanna guess which ‘coinage’ they are discussing?

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    DM2860  about 1 year ago

    If Teddy Roosevelt said “Comparison is the thief of joy” in a letter to a friend, would that be for PhDs in literature or history to know? It is not like Teddy Roosevelt is known as an author.

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    DaBump Premium Member about 1 year ago

    SO many of those out there these days. Don’t believe any attribution you don’t know yourself for sure without checking out the reference.

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    prrdh  about 1 year ago

    Who was it who said, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you in trouble so much as what you know that just ain’t so”?

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    rshive  about 1 year ago

    Fred in the Hanes Company teaches literature in his spare time.

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    rugeirn  about 1 year ago

    “Of course I lost the election. Isn’t it obvious?” — Donald J. Trump, The Nation, Aug 25, 2023, p. 4. Now, if only THAT would go viral.

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    cissycox  about 1 year ago

    My favorite quote: “Out side of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read”

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    Ignatz Premium Member about 1 year ago

    “Interesting quotes should always be attributed to somebody important.” – Cicero

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    calliarcale  about 1 year ago

    Because it’s plausible enough that we can be reasonably sure most people won’t check. ;-)

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    The Wolf In Your Midst  about 1 year ago

    Could be worse. One of these days I want to make a T-shirt that says “Che Guevara would put a bullet in your head for wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt”.

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    kv450  about 1 year ago

    Jesse Jackson (allegedly) – “you start off saying ‘as someone was said …’, after many repetitions, you can eventually say ‘as I’ve often said’”.

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    Bill The Nuke  about 1 year ago

    “Mark Twain never said that” Hard to prove a negative.

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    Stephen Gilberg  about 1 year ago

    Once in a while, someone appears to be known only for a single quotation. Finding anything else about them is hard.

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    Teto85 Premium Member about 1 year ago

    “Harry, use the Force.” Gandalf

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member about 1 year ago

    C’mon, we all know that, if it was a great line, it was from George Carlin!

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    Richard S Russell Premium Member about 1 year ago

    I once wrote that we should be careful what to believe when something is taken out of context, but then I got a reply noting that I myself admitted that what I had written was literally “taken out of context”.

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    jbarnes  about 1 year ago

    Having a famous person say something increases the perceived credibility – especially if it was said a long time ago. According to Quote Investigator, none of those people said that comparison is a thief of joy. There were many “thief of joy” quotes from that era. None were from famous authors and none were about comparison. 2003 was the first published variant of the familiar saying.

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    B.D.  about 1 year ago

    “And now I need a bath.”

    -Albert Einstein

    (Get Fuzzy July 26, 2007)

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    Boots at the Boar Premium Member about 1 year ago

    The problem with Twain is that he was a prolific on the lecture circuits and regular banquet speaker. Many of the quotes attributed to him were verbal ones written down by others, and not found in his books. Of course, even when he was alive, people were attributing their own witticisms to him, particularly if they weren’t fit for polite company. He was notorious for his crude jokes.

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