If you like the quotations, you'll greatly enjoy the words of the most famous people in this book. The quotes by famous people can be in the form of extracts, passages or lines from famous speeches and quotes providing an illustration of or allusion citing the famous events of the day. Use passages and lines taken as direct citations from the famous speeches and quotes using the language and words used by the famous people in their own language and dialect.
The Book of Wise Sayings is an excellent resource for today's authors, speakers, teachers, networkers, and bloggers. These 589 sayings and quotes range from a variety of topics such as ability, fortune, friendship, youth and zeal. Many of the quotes come from ancient, western historians, and Eastern Philosophers.
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Abraham Lincoln never said, "You cannot fool all the people all the time." Thomas Jefferson never said, "That government is best which governs least." And Horace Greeley never said, "Go west, young man." In They Never Said It, Paul F. Boller, Jr. and John George examine hundreds of
misquotations, incorrect attributions, and blatant fabrications, outlining the origins of the quotes and revealing why we should consign them to the historical trashcan.
Many of the misquotes are quite harmless. Some are inadvertent misquotes that have become popular (Shakespeare actually said, "The best part of valor is discretion"), others, the inventions of reporters embellishing a story (Franklin Roosevelt never opened a speech to a DAR group with the
salutation, "My fellow immigrants"). But some of the quotes, such as Charles Darwin's supposed deathbed recantation of evolution, falsify the historical record with their blatant dishonesty. And other chillingly vicious ones, filled with virulent racial and religious prejudices, completely distort
the views of the person supposedly quoted and spread distrust and hatred among the gullible. These include the forged remarks attributed to Benjamin Franklin that Jews should be excluded from America and the fabricated condemnation of Catholics attributed to Lincoln.
An entertaining and thought-provoking book, They Never Said It covers a great deal of history and sets it right. Going beyond a mere catalog of popular misconceptions, Boller and George reveal how rightists and leftists, and atheists and evangelists all have at times twisted and even invented
the words of eminent figures to promote their own ends. The ultimate debunking reference, it perfectly complements handbooks of quotations.
