Monthly Archives: August 2025| quoteinvestigator.com
Civis? Sapper? Scott Hurtt Paradise? H. O. A. Anne? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Warfare is horrific, but feelings of terror occur intermittently. Battlefield veterans developed the following saying: War consists of months of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror. Would you please explore the provenance of this saying? Reply from Quote Investigator: This … Continue reading "Quote Origin: War Consists of Months of Intolerable Boredom Interspersed with Moments of Extrem...| Quote Investigator®
Ignazio Silone? Gwenda David? Eric Mosbacher? William Weaver? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Thinkers have attempted to analyze and explain the rise of fascism in Germany and Italy. An Italian writer suggested that the failure of left-wing revolutionary movements catalyzed the emergence of fascism. Here is the pertinent quotation: Fascism is a counter-revolution against a … Continue reading "Quote Origin: Fascism Is a Counter-Revolution Against a Revolution That Never Took Place"| Quote Investigator®
Hans Moravec? Timothy Leary? Vince Rause? Grant Fjermedal? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The creation of the first living beings on planet Earth was an epochal change. The prominent roboticist Hans Moravec has stated that the advent of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) will be a change comparable to the transition from non-life to life. Would … Continue reading "Quote Origin: We Are on the Threshold of a Change in the Universe Comparable to the Transition from Non-Life to...| Quote Investigator®
Gore Vidal? Andy Warhol? Peter Conrad? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: A U.S. intellectual once offered the following remarkably harsh assessment of a famous pop-artist: He is the only genius with an IQ of 60. Reportedly, the verbal sharpshooter was Gore Vidal, and the visual artist was Andy Warhol. The precise number specified for the … Continue reading "Quote Origin: He Is the Only Genius with an IQ of 85"| Quote Investigator®
Nicholas Negroponte? M. G. Siegler? William Deresiewicz? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: Predicting the technological future is extremely difficult. More than a decade ago Nicholas Negroponte, the head of the MIT Media Lab, predicted that books would not exist in about five years. He meant that the popularity of paper books would decline, and ebooks … Continue reading "Quote Origin: Books Will Not Exist in About Five Years"| Quote Investigator®
Elbert Hubbard? Mary Sargent Hopkins? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
Oscar Wilde? Gian Vincenzo Gravina? John D. MacDonald? Roger Ebert? Paul Gibson? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: A clever person constructed the following definition: A bore is a person who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. This remark has been attributed to Irish wit Oscar Wilde, Italian man of letters Gian Vincenzo … Continue reading "Quote Origin: A Bore Is a Person Who Deprives You of Solitude Without Providing You with Company"| Quote Investigator®
Francis Petrarch? Plutarch? Henry Theodore Tuckerman? Frederick Saunders? Apocryphal? Question for Quote Investigator: The following ornate passage about love has been attributed to Francis Petrarch, a prominent poet of the Italian Renaissance: Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth. … Continue reading "Quote Origin: Love Is the Crowning Grace of Humanity, the Holiest Right of the Soul, the Golden Link Which Bi...| Quote Investigator®
Jesse Carr? Margaret Thatcher? Anonymous? Question for Quote Investigator: Positive self-descriptions are sometimes inaccurate. Here are three versions of a saying which illustrates this insight: (1) Power is like being a lady—if you have to tell them you are, you ain’t. (2) Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people … Continue reading "Quote Origin: Being Powerful Is Like Being a Lady. If You Have To Tell People You Are, You Aren’t"| Quote Investigator®
Ginger Rogers? Ann Richards? Bob Thaves? Ronald Reagan? Faith Whittlesey? Liz Carpenter? Question for Quote Investigator: The U.S. entertainer Fred Astaire won high praise as a magnificent dancer. Astaire’s partner Ginger Rogers also achieved acclaim, but she did not achieve the same level of celebrity. A humorous feminist line compares the capabilities of the two: … Continue reading "Quote Origin: Sure, He Was Great, But Don’t Forget That Ginger Rogers Did Everything He Did Backwards a...| Quote Investigator®
John Stuart Mill? Henry George? H. L. Mencken? C. Palfrey? J. E. Jennings? Adam Coaldigger? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
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Eubie Blake? Erma Bombeck? Mickey Mantle? Adolph Zukor? Billy Noonan? Robert Henley? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
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Roberto Alazar? Pasi Kuoppamaki? Richard M. Scammon? Ben Wattenberg? John Kenneth Galbraith? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
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Robert Frost? George William Curtis? Arthur Deerin Call? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
William F. Buckley Jr.? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Ernest Hemingway? Natalie Goldberg? Conrad Aiken? Joan Crawford? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Erskine Caldwell? Stanley J. Kunitz? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Daniel Boone? Chester Harding? Margaret Eliot White? Gene Tunney? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
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Michael Foot? Norman Mailer? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Oscar Wilde? Henry Wotton? Sibyl Vane? Louis T. Stanley? Apocryphal?| Quote Investigator®
Don Herold? Nadine Stair? Nadine Star? Frank Dickey? Helen S. Moor? Berton Braley? Anonymous?| quoteinvestigator.com
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Arthur Kantrowitz? Gerard K. O’Neill? Timothy Leary? Arthur C. Clarke? Anonymous?| Quote Investigator®
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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®