Monthly Archives: October 2025| quoteinvestigator.com
Phyllis Diller? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Physical and mental challenges accumulate as one grows older. Yet, opportunities for growth and achievement are undiminished. A comedian delivered the following pertinent joke: Question: “Who would want to be 90?”Answer: “Anyone who is 89.” Would you please find out who created this joke? Reply from Quote Investigator: … Continue reading "Joke Origin: “Who Would Want To Be 90?” “Anyone Who Is 89”"| Quote Investigator®
Harvey O’Higgins? Brice Durbin? Richard L. Evans? Pat Benton? Samuel Johnson? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: The “freedom of speech” doctrine has always been controversial. People who voice unpopular or offensive opinions sometimes face dire repercussions such as severed friendships, lost jobs, public shaming, imprisonment, and even execution. The following statement presents an implicit rationale … Continue reading "Quote Origin: Freedom of Speech Does Not Mean Freedom f...| Quote Investigator®
W. C. Fields? Peter De Vries? Joe Sandwich? Morley Callaghan? Mary Steele? Ed McMahon? Chris Browne? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a statement is unexpected. This surprising element requires a comical reframing. For example, the following remark initially seems to be about … Continue reading "Quip Origin: Everybody Should Believe in Something; I Believe I’ll Have Another Drink"| Quote Investigator®
Sidney Sheldon? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: A top-selling author once powerfully praised libraries with the following words: Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better. Apparently, … Continue reading "Quote Origin: Libraries Store the Energy That Fuels the Imagination. They Open Up Windows To the World"| Quote Investigator®
Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe? Ernest Hemingway? Banksy? Laurie Anderson? Amelia B. Edwards? James Grant? Sylvester Stallone? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Mark Twain? Grant Allen? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Bob Dylan? Bob Marley? Roger Miller? Donald Freeman? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Voltaire? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The philosopher and historian Voltaire (penname of François-Marie Arouet) wrote about metaphorically dying twice. One dies when one can no longer form a bond of love. One dies again when the physical body expires. I do not know the precise phrases Voltaire used to express this … Continue reading "Quote Origin: One Dies Twice. To Cease To Love Is an Unbearable Death. To Cease To Live Is Nothing"| Quote Investigator®
Mickey Mantle? Anthony J. Connor? David Plaut? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: A prominent athlete believed that even top professionals should practice and continue to improve their capabilities. This attitude was expressed as follows: It is unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life. U.S. Major League Baseball … Continue reading "Quote Origin: It Is Unbelievable How Much You Don’t Know About the Game You’ve Been Playing All You...| Quote Investigator®
Edward Hulse? Leewin B. Williams? Viola Brothers Shore? Arthur Godfrey? Walter Winchell? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: The feeling of humility is paradoxical. The instant you become self-aware and proud of your humility, it disappears. This thought has been stated as follows: Humility is a strange thing. The moment you think you’ve got it, you’ve … Continue reading "Quote Origin: Humility Is a Strange Thing. The Moment You Think You’ve Got It, You’ve Lost It"| Quote Investigator®
Walter Kerr? Jean Kerr? Caroline A. Lejeune? Dorothy Parker? Walter Winchell? Goodman Ace? Clare Boothe Luce? Alexander Woollcott? Kenneth Tynan? Question for Quote Investigator: A famous one-line theater review employed a horrible pun. Many people have been credited with this pun, but I have never seen any solid evidence. The target of the review was … Continue reading "Review Origin: “I Am a Camera” “No Leica”"| Quote Investigator®
Glenn Curtiss? Angelo Donghia? Stephen Robbins? Eugene Lewis Fordsworthe? Caroline Leaf Carol? Bill Gatter? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Relying on false assumptions leads to serious blunders. Here are two versions of a pertinent adage: (1) Assumption is the mother of all mistakes.(2) Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. This saying has been attributed … Continue reading "Adage Origin: Assumption Is the Mother of All Foul-Ups"| Quote Investigator®
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Elbert Hubbard? Mary Sargent Hopkins? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
John Stuart Mill? Henry George? H. L. Mencken? C. Palfrey? J. E. Jennings? Adam Coaldigger? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Monthly Archives: April 2025| quoteinvestigator.com
Arthur Kantrowitz? Gerard K. O’Neill? Timothy Leary? Arthur C. Clarke? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Vladimir Lenin? Karl Marx? Louis C. Fraina? Homero Aridjis? Carlos Fuentes? Saint Peter? George Galloway? Liz Smith? Steve Bannon? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Heidelberg Professor? Chairman of an Irish Company? Claude T. Bissell? Sean MacReamoinn? Walter Heller? Garret FitzGerald? Ernest Hollings? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Charles De Gaulle? Georges Clemenceau? Elbert Hubbard? R. C. O’Brien? Vladmir Bjornberg? Seth Wiggins? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Viktor E. Frankl? Stephen R. Covey? Rollo May? Thomas Walton Galloway? Sheldon P. Stoff? B. F. Skinner? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Abraham Lincoln? W. H. Alexander? Wood Cutter? Lumberjack? Woodsman? Apocryphal? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Bill Gates? James E. Fawcette? Nancy Andrews? Jerry Pournelle? InfoWorld? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Mark Twain? Jonathan Swift? Thomas Francklin? Fisher Ames? Thomas Jefferson? John Randolph? Charles Haddon Spurgeon? Winston Churchill? Terry Pratchett? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
A Fired Machinist? Charles R. Wiers? Hubert N. Alyea? Charles Proteus Steinmetz? Henry Ford? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Mark Twain? Josh Billings? Artemus Ward? Kin Hubbard? Will Rogers? Edwin Howard Armstrong? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Fyodor Dostoyevsky? Leo Tolstoy? Mary Morris? John Gardner? David Long? Ernest Hemingway? Deepak Chopra?| Quote Investigator®
Ernest Hemingway? William R. Kane? Roy K. Moulton? Avery Hopwood? Arthur C. Clarke? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Steve Jobs? Pablo Picasso? T. S. Eliot? W. H. Davenport Adams? Lionel Trilling? Igor Stravinsky? William Faulkner? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Voltaire? Spider-Man? Winston Churchill? Theodore Roosevelt? Franklin D. Roosevelt? Lord Melbourne? John Cumming? Hercules G. R. Robinson? Henry W. Haynes? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
George Bernard Shaw? Winston Churchill? Groucho Marx? Max Aitken? Mark Twain? W. C. Fields? Bertrand Russell?| Quote Investigator®
Niels Bohr? Samuel Goldwyn? K. K. Steincke? Robert Storm Petersen? Yogi Berra? Mark Twain? Nostradamus? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Helmuth von Moltke the Elder? Carl von Clausewitz? Dwight D. Eisenhower? Mike Tyson? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Mark Twain? Theodor Reik? John Robert Colombo? James Eayrs? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Blaise Pascal? John Locke? Benjamin Franklin? Henry David Thoreau? Cicero? Woodrow Wilson?| Quote Investigator®
Henry Ford? Edward Menge? Lewis Mumford? Sedgewick Seti? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Dwight D. Eisenhower? Winston Churchill? Richard M. Nixon? Helmuth von Moltke? Mike Tyson? Anonymous| Quote Investigator®