#misquote

I'm the most misunderstood, misquoted person I know, honestly. ↗

— Dusty Springfield

#i #know #misquoted #misunderstood #most

I was often misquoted. I was supportive of my managers, even though they all may not think so. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#i #managers #may #misquoted #often

Thomas Jefferson once said: 'Of course the people don't want war. But the people can be brought to the bidding of their leader. All you have to do is tell them they're being attacked and denounce the pacifists for somehow a lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.' I think that was Jefferson. Oh wait. That was Hermann Goering. Shoot." [Hosting the Peabody Awards for broadcasting excellence at the New York Waldorf-Astoria, June 6, 2006] ↗

— Jon Stewart

#iraq-war #jefferson #misquote #war #iraq

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect. ↗

— Periander

#makes #misquoted #often #perfect #practice

Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted. ↗

— Bob Monkhouse

#misquoted #only #seldom #silence

There is no beauty without some strangeness ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#misattributed-to-poe #misquote #beauty

This is NOT a Charles Darwin quote: "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change ↗

— Leon Megginson

#change

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. ↗

— Hesketh Pearson

#never #only #quotations

This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#freud #irish #misquote #psychoanalysis #psychology

I will not be misquoted! ↗

— Todd Barry

#misquoted #will