Your discussion thread from May 14, 2026, inspired the creation of a QI article: It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/06/c... @thurberteam.bsky.social @rajakorman.bsky.social

It was worse than a crime; it was a blunder Who originated the remark above: Talleyrand? Joseph Fouché? Antoine Boulay de la Meurthe? Napoleon Bonaparte? Germaine de Staël? Emmanuel Comte de Las Cases? Walter Scott? Ralph Waldo Emerson? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/06/c...

Quote Investigator (Garson O’Toole) attributes it to Raymond Chandler. It was commentary on how pulp stories were written. "When in doubt have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand." From "The Simple Art of Murder", the April 1950 version. quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/31/g...

Encántame esta frase pero gústame aínda máis todo o proceso que levou a ela quoteinvestigator.com/2016/10/18/f...

He does! As we can see here on my pics from Paris, he WALKS which is next to cycling and public transport certainly the most intelligent mobility behavior one can have in times of climate crisis!

A quote all the leaders could use today! 🙌🏼

Which actor said the following? What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely quoteinvestigator.com/2026/05/02/h...

Was the following said by German theoretical physicist Max Planck, U.S. self-help author Wayne Dyer, or QI while inebriated? Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change quoteinvestigator.com/2026/04/30/c...

My gosh, I'm in such elegant company(!).

Oh, how lovely! Thank you! ❗️

@bcdreyer.social Your advice is mentioned in the latest Quote Investigator article. Thanks for writing a wonderful book about language bsky.app/profile/quot...

That great pleasure of nervously reading a book by a friend and discovering that it's absolutely fantastic.

By the way, the whole of Mencken's "The American Language" is online, so judge for yourself! Jump to a random section and read. www.gutenberg.org/files/43376/...

I think I remember first seeing this rule under @johnemcintyre.bsky.social's name. It has definitely shamed me out of an exclamation when writing for publication (though I use them to lighten email/instant messages...)

Which literary stylist presented this guideline? Every writer has a lifetime ration of three exclamation points William Maxwell? Annabel Davis-Goff? Elmore Leonard? Helen Dudar? Benjamin Dreyer? William Safire? F. Scott Fitzgerald? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/04/27/l...

Which angry unbeliever crafted the following: The only excuse for God is that he does not exist Friedrich Nietzsche? Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle)? Albert Camus? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/04/23/g...

I was thinking maybe the early Borscht Belt, or even a few years prior (time to percolate through the populace), but that's just a wild guess.

How old is this family of jokes? "Waiter, do you serve shrimps here?" "Sure. We don’t care how tall you are. Sit down." "Do you serve crabs?" "Yes, we treat all customers alike.” "Do you serve lobsters here?” “Yes, we serve anyone." quoteinvestigator.com/2026/04/21/s...

Also Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

It is better to die on our feet than to live on our knees Who crafted this revolutionary slogan: Emiliano Zapata? Dolores Ibárruri? Aeschylus? Franklin D. Roosevelt? Ernest Hemingway? François-Noël Babeuf? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/04/16/f...

Also handy: @quoteinvestigator.com and their site

Did Albert Einstein say the following? If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research quoteinvestigator.com/2026/04/10/d...

Of course our beloved @quoteinvestigator.com has organized the entire history:

Interesting quote. By definition, Immortality is the indefinite continuation of a person's existence, even after death. I don't know if I would use the word immortality for computer artifacts! But I guess it is a figure of speech. The exploration is easy by @quoteinvestigator.com standards!

Which famous computer scientist said the following, and what was he talking about? So, the good news is, we've discovered the secret of immortality. The bad news is, it's not for us quoteinvestigator.com/2026/04/08/i...

Do you have access to the Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor Library system? The Quote Investigator is trying to verify a citation in a 1945 pamphlet that is only held in the Ann Arbor Library. Are you willing to help? I will send details

Did you notice that insect? I wanted a snap without it, but it won't budge! And this was the prettiest rose!

'Cause out on the edge of darkness There rides a peace train Oh, peace train, take this country Come take me home again..." - Yusuf Islam. Wishing you a peaceful evening and weekend! #dailyflowers 🌱 #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #imageAndVerse #ECK "Peace" rose from Gamble Garden.

Was the following spoken by a famous producer from the Golden Age of Hollywood? I'm sick and tired of these old clichés. Let’s have some new clichés quoteinvestigator.com/2026/04/04/n...

No, of course I don't believe in the Evil Eye, but see below (h/t: @quoteinvestigator.com)

Who crafted the following: Toni Morrison? An anonymous poet? Nothing needs to be exposed since it is already barefaced See answer in next message

💔https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/12/04/no-fish/

And putting your name on every patentable idea that comes out of your lab...

PERSEVERANCE CONQUERS ALL.

Did Thomas Edison say the following? Was it invented by a journalist? I tell you genius is hard work, stick-to-it-iveness, and common sense quoteinvestigator.com/2026/03/26/g...

Curious?😼

A cat has absolute emotional honesty. People hide their feelings for various reasons, but cats never do Did Ernest Hemingway really say this, or was it created for an inspirational cat book? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/03/24/c...

I find very interesting quotes with what @quoteinvestigator.com posts!

Great citation @simonkoppel.bsky.social Thanks! Here is the tale a week earlier in The New York Times on April 17, 1856 www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

"Isn’t that slightly cool ..." from 1856! (Slightly difference sense, yes.)

A young person was found guilty of murdering his two parents. The judge asked, "Have you anything to say before I pass sentence?" The defendant replied, "I hope Your Honor will have mercy on a poor orphan." Did Artemus Ward originate this anecdote? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/03/23/m...

Was the following remark spoken by physician Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., or someone else? The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions quoteinvestigator.com/2026/03/17/k...

“Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English).”

If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there Did this saying originate with the Lewis Carroll's Cheshire cat? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/03/11/a...

Wow - had not come across @quoteinvestigator.com before... 🫡

@quoteinvestigator.com to the rescue! quoteinvestigator.com/2014/10/14/f...

By the way, the origins of that quote, often falsely attributed to President Dwight Eisenhower and others, were thoroughly studied by @quoteinvestigator.com at my request: quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/29/l...

Don’t worry about people stealing your idea. If it’s original you will have to ram it down their throats Who said this: Howard H. Aiken? Kenneth E. Iverson? Grace Murray Hopper? Anonymous? quoteinvestigator.com/2026/03/06/i...

If you're someone who likes to occasionally reference famous/infamous quotes in your Bluesky posts and you're not already following @quoteinvestigator.com (or using his website database), I have only one question: Why not? He's the real deal when it comes to researching proper attribution.

Mark Twain, Dorothy Parker, Albert Einstein attract numerous misattributions. They are quotation magnets / flypaper figures. Top 100 names listed here are based on number of QI articles. Large type face means more articles. Admittedly, this is a biased sample: quoteinvestigator.com/search/