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...

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...

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...

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...

As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars it made me realise how insignificant they are Who crafted this quip: Peter Cook? Russell Brand? George Weiss? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/07/n...

Did German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt craft the following warning: The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/04/n...

Your blogpost of Feb 12, 2015 helped inspire creation of Quote Investigator article @glennbranch.bsky.social Everything is what it is because it got that way Biologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson? Economist Kenneth E. Boulding? Philosopher Daniel Dennett? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/07/01/g...

I took a course in (speed reading), learning to read straight down the middle of the page, and was able to go through 'War and Peace' in 20 minutes. ... It’s about Russia. Attributed to Woody Allen by Herb Caen in 1967 quoteinvestigator.com/2015/12/08/s...

Did a famous mathematician say the following? Mathematics is the simple bit. It’s the stuff we can understand. It’s cats that are complicated quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/29/m...

Your inquiry from June 26 inspired the creation of a Quote Investigator article: @moochie6us.bsky.social Did Jack London say his? Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up into your brain. quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/27/k...

Your messages from Mar 30 and Jun 22 inspired the creation of a Quote Investigator article: @shlead.bsky.social If you hear a voice within you say, ‘You cannot paint,’ then paint all the more, and that voice will be silenced quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/24/v...

Providing help to a person sometimes masks a desire for domination. Here is a pertinent saying: Help is the sunny side of control Who crafted this? Anne Lamott? Robin Norwood? Linda Ann Loschiavo? Brené Brown? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/22/s...

Your inquiry from June 12 inspired a Quote Investigator article: @vils.bsky.social ‬ Russia is never as strong as she looks; Russia is never as weak as she looks. Who crafted this: Churchill? Bismarck? Talleyrand? Metternich? Pilsudski? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/20/r...

Quote Origin: Punks Are Basically Nice People Pretending To Be Mean, Whereas Hippies Are Mean People Pretending To Be Nice How old is this saying? Who created it? Gordon Edgar? John Ross Bowie? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/18/p...

A Quote Investigator article on this topic is now available. Thanks to all the discussion participants: quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/16/s...

The book "Letters Home: Advice from the Wisest Men and Women" (1997) by George and Karen Grant claims quotation is in a letter from Theodore Roosevelt to his daughter. I have not yet been able to verify this @bjkeefe.bsky.social @timmarchman.bsky.social

Preliminary analysis. Theodore Roosevelt attribution unsupported. Earliest match in poem by Ken Harris on Feb 19, 1972 in Springfield Daily News of Ohio @timmarchman.bsky.social @bjkeefe.bsky.social

Your discussion thread from June 9 inspired the creation of a Quote Investigator article: A mathematician is a machine which turns coffee into theorems quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/13/m... @clgood.bsky.social @protik.bsky.social @ennui.org ‬

Did literary titan Victor Hugo say: The theater is not the realm of the real: there are cardboard trees, … glass diamonds, tinsel gold, … The theater is the realm of the true: there are human hearts on the stage, … human hearts in the auditorium. quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/11/t...

Did fashion maven Coco Chanel present the following fashion guideline emphasizing simplicity? One always begins by making dream dresses. Then one has to take away something. Always to take off, never to add. quoteinvestigator.com/2023/02/02/j... This is an updated Quote Investigator article

Did super-investor Warren Buffett coin the following saying? It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/07/b...

The QI article inspired by your request from August 2024 has been updated with a 1905 precursor citation @chronicleflask.katday.com Quip Origin: In Ancient Times Cats Were Worshipped As Gods; They Have Not Forgotten This quoteinvestigator.com/2024/08/11/c... Did Terry Pratchett craft this quip?

Hellen Keller presented a remarkable description of the tumultuous changes to her inner life: Before my teacher came to me, I did not know that I am. I lived in a world that was a no-world. quoteinvestigator.com/2026/06/01/n...

A science fiction author presented a radical opinion about machine intelligence when he said the following. Who was it? We should regard it as a privilege to be stepping stones to higher things quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/29/s...

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Is the advice above really from William Shakespeare or motivational author William Arthur Ward? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/26/s...

For ’twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. ’Twas not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Did a famous actress and singer from the Golden Age of Hollywood write the lines above? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/23/l...

In physics, almost everything is already discovered, and all that remains is to fill a few unimportant holes Was physicist Max Planck given this discouraging advice when he was a student in the 1870s? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/20/p...

The following is credited to a famous comedian and concert pianist. Who said it? Laughter is the shortest distance between two people quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/17/l...

Your request of May 4, 2026, inspired the creation of a Quote Investigator article: Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/13/c... @clgood.bsky.social

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