I have seen many people mangle and misattribute quotes.
There are many sites to search quotes but often those sites are repeating the same misquotes and misattributions.
The best way to check a quote is to find the original, full attribution with a sourced reference.
Everyone needs to be careful.
Being lazing and just re-posting a meme quote you found on some other website leaves everyone open to ridicule.
Life has gotten too serious. I’m inclined to let God sort it all out.
While the left murders the unborn, destroys marriage, the language,science and the Constitution; we worry over being ridiculed.
Excellent point! Of course, the left does that as well “Hitler quote” for example. But nothing makes you look dumber than posting an unvetted urban myth.
Remember when Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations was the authoritative source for quotations? The book was first issued in 1855 and is currently in its eighteenth edition, published in 2012.
Today, the authoritative source is “Bob’s Meme and Quote Factory.”
I think Ingsoc describes the Antifa and our current left quite nicely.
I bet a million dollars that they fact-checked the fake quote taken from the Internet...on the Internet.
Do the words provide the message on their own or does the author of the words provide the message?
The author brings the words to our attention but after that introduction the words have to stand on their own.
Regardless of the author do the words stand on their own?
It doesn’t matter who said it...it’s true.