No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible Who deserves credit for this saying: French wit Voltaire? Polish aphorist Stanisław Jerzy Lec? U.S. comedian George Burns? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2022/04/26/s... (Updated article)
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Too often raindrops don't even stop to consider that they're raindrops.
Quote Investigator@quoteinvestigator.com · 3d agoNo individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood Who deserves credit for the saying above: John Ruskin? Douglas Adams? Sydney J. Harris? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/08/02/r...
No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood Who deserves credit for the saying above: John Ruskin? Douglas Adams? Sydney J. Harris? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/08/02/r...
Brilliant.
Quote Investigator@quoteinvestigator.com · 6d agoA writer faced harsh criticism at a meeting of the Harlem Writers Guild. She vowed to improve: If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. Who was this writer? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/30/w...
A writer faced harsh criticism at a meeting of the Harlem Writers Guild. She vowed to improve: If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. Who was this writer? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/30/w...
The following was spoken by lexicographer Samuel Johnson: Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. Johnson's goal was to mislead! Why was Johnson engaging in deception? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/29/c...
Did actress and activist Jane Fonda say the following: If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would someday become communist quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/27/p...
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"You'll certainly fancy…that I am very fond of books…But you'd be quite mistaken. I am a machine, condemned to devour them and, then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history." — #Marx, letter to daughter honeymooning in Paris, requesting book catalogues archive.org/details/in.e...
That is another misquotation mechanism: Avoiding the hassle of asking permission to use a statement as an epigraph for a book. If the invented statement is libelous you are still in trouble! @vancemaverick.bsky.social @daviddiescmpsr.bsky.social
Fascinating. Change was coming - with backpropagation.
Quote Investigator@quoteinvestigator.com · 2w agoTwo influential scientists considered multilayer perceptron networks (i.e., digital neural networks) in 1969 and wrote: "Our intuitive judgment that the extension Is sterile". This was the greatest misjudgment in the history of modern technology. Who wrote it? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/24/p...
Two influential scientists considered multilayer perceptron networks (i.e., digital neural networks) in 1969 and wrote: "Our intuitive judgment that the extension Is sterile". This was the greatest misjudgment in the history of modern technology. Who wrote it? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/24/p...
An unhappy politician delivered the following legendary concession speech: The people have spoken—the bastards. Was this legend true or false? Who was the politician? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/21/p...
@michaelkofman.bsky.social I asked @quoteinvestigator.com about the origin of the quote about Russia’s strength/weakness. The answer can be found here quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/20/r...
Quote Origin: Russia Is Never as Strong, or as Weak, as She Appears – Quote Investigator®
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In the 1950s the host of a popular TV show about religion spoke the following line while accepting an award: It is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Did this really happen? Who was the host? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/19/f...
Holy moley! A Mark Twain quote that is really a Mark Twain quote! WHAT ARE THE ODDS. ;)
People don’t really read your books; they only say they do to keep you from feeling bad Is this a genuine Mark Twain quotation? Is this the melancholy coda of an AI generated novel? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/16/r...
My dad used to say it sixty years ago, but I know he did not invent it.
So many of the investigations you do make me marvel at how a given quote so often has a long and evolving history. And they didn't even have the Internet! ;)
I’ve never heard this quote; I love it!
Quote Investigator@quoteinvestigator.com · 3w agoCommon Sense Is That Which Tells Us the World Is Flat Who crafted this saying: Albert Einstein? George Bernard Shaw? Stuart Chase? Robert Anton Wilson? Minot Judson Savage? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/14/f...
Common Sense Is That Which Tells Us the World Is Flat Who crafted this saying: Albert Einstein? George Bernard Shaw? Stuart Chase? Robert Anton Wilson? Minot Judson Savage? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/14/f...
The "He's dead. Good." bit isn't Bette Davis's, by the bye, and it isn't Dorothy Parker's either. It's Moms Mabley's. Make of that what you will. [h/t @quoteinvestigator.com]
No substantive evidence that Mark Twain said this, according to @quoteinvestigator.com quoteinvestigator.com/2018/01/10/l...
Quote Origin: The More I Know About People, the Better I Like Dogs – Quote Investigator®
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Did Winston Churchill make the following cynical remark about the electorate? The best argument against Democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/10/d...
Add it to the list of many things Russel Brand has been wrong about.