pet peeve of mine as well. and it goes for more recent dead peeps as well- Marilyn Monroe and George Carlin, especially. And the REAL quotes, real meaning and real context are always that much more interesting!
One of the strongest messages on history you've written, because words, and who said them and why, have meaning.
A quote joke I like to use when faced with hard work & late nights: "There is time enough for sleep when in the grave - Ben Franklin or Conan the Barbarian, or somebody." 😉
(Actually, a similar quote is attributed to both Franklin & Shakespeare)
I first saw the Ben Franklin quote in T-shirt in 2000 in college. I repeated it online ever since.
About 8-9 years later I looked for its original source and couldn’t find it. I stopped. I haven’t seen it much lately, has there been a resurgence?
For me it’s just one of the more widely known ones ever. Like everybody knows it
Very true
I agree with you 100%.
pet peeve of mine as well. and it goes for more recent dead peeps as well- Marilyn Monroe and George Carlin, especially. And the REAL quotes, real meaning and real context are always that much more interesting!
So many misattributed quotes let alone outright false ones
One of the strongest messages on history you've written, because words, and who said them and why, have meaning.
A quote joke I like to use when faced with hard work & late nights: "There is time enough for sleep when in the grave - Ben Franklin or Conan the Barbarian, or somebody." 😉
(Actually, a similar quote is attributed to both Franklin & Shakespeare)
"All it takes to make a great quote is a pretty picture and a good font." -Theodore Roosevelt