Quote of the day · 08 November 2026
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Source: The Great Gatsby, final line (1925)
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“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”
Credited to Voltaire
Actually: Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis, Maximes et réflexions (1808).
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“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
Credited to Mark Twain
Actually: Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen says he probably never said it; an early version ("to play golf is to spoil an otherwise enjoyable walk") appears in a 1903 tennis book.
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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
Credited to Albert Einstein
Actually: No evidence Einstein said or wrote it; versions of the fish-and-tree fable circulated without his name long before.
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