<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Famous people are "quote magnets" because a saying sounds more</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">impressive with a famous name attached. :) bill k</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Yeah, and the misattributions usually are between the Bible and Shakespeare. At least it wasn't Yogi. bill w</span></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 6:59 PM BillK via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 23:55, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br>
<<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Yes - Mark Twain. I loved it before my back make me quit.<br>
> I even went out with friends and just watched and joked etc. bill w<br>
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The quotation “Golf is a good walk spoiled” is indeed commonly<br>
attributed to Mark Twain, but like many such sayings, he probably<br>
never said it.<br>
Quote Investigator has an article about trying to trace the origin of<br>
the quotation.<br>
<<a href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/28/golf-good-walk/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/28/golf-good-walk/</a>><br>
Famous people are "quote magnets" because a saying sounds more<br>
impressive with a famous name attached. :)<br>
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BillK<br>
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