This Day in Quotes
The famous quotations and phrases linked to each day of the year
August 16, 2022
The story behind the phrase “The Year of Living Dangerously”
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Google has a cool tool for researchers of words and phrases (including quotations) called the Ngram Viewer . It graphs the occurrence...
August 13, 2022
“No man is a hero to his valet” – the backstory on a famous proverb and misquote...
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Charlotte Aïssé (1693-1733) was quite a celebrity in France in the early 18th Century — part heroine, part sex symbol, part intel...
July 25, 2022
“Why are you not here?” – Thoreau’s famous (apocryphal) question to Emerson...
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Fake quotes are sometimes harder to identify and debunk than “fake news,” especially when they are cited by hundreds of books and thousan...
July 12, 2022
“The rich are different”… The legendary “exchange” between F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway…
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If you’re a quotation buff, you’ve probably heard of a legendary exchange about “rich people” that supposedly took place between the A...
July 02, 2022
“There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.”
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It is often claimed that the familiar expression of compassion “There, but for the grace of God, go I” is based on a quote by the 16th C...
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