c/til · by SoyTDI@lemmy.world · 305dTIL Mark Twain didn't say "History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes" https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/120 points · 16 comments · view on lemmy.world
16 Comments
actionjbone@sh.itjust.works · 43 pts · 305d
You can't believe everything you've heard on the internet. Just like Abe Lincoln said.
itkovian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 305d
What is internet??
Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 305d
Just wait until you learn how the free exchange of information and ideas has led billions to believe all sorts of nonsense.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 21 pts · 304d
TIL people thought Mark Twain said that.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 304d
And Colonel Sanders never actually said "I'm too drunk to taste this chicken."
gramie@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 304d
But he did say something like, "after I sold my restaurants to a corporation, the chicken tastes like shit".
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 305d
True, that was Abraham Lincoln.
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 6 pts · 304d
I heard it was Michael Scott.
GladiusB@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 304d
Wayne Gretzky
otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 303d
Oh, yeah! It was from that one Wheaties commercial, right?
elevenbones@piefed.social · 6 pts · 304d
But he did say:
"What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?
I don't know and I dont care!"
...Or at least I'm pretty sure that was him.
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 304d
Many famous phrases and quotes are misunderstandings or fabricated. It's interesting to read about it.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 305d
In fact, nobody has ever said anything.
Akasazh@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 304d
Says who?
vateso5074@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 304d
everett@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 305d
Can confirm.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 304d
she keeps moet et chandon in her pretty cabinet
"let them eat cake" she says just like marie antoinette