W C Fields Actually said by: Leo Rosten: at a dinner introducing Fields
Horace Greeley Actually said by: John Soule (Article, Terre Haute Express, 1851)
Mark Twain Actually said by: Charles Dudley Warner (Editorial, Hartford Courant, August 24, 1897)
Charles Darwin Actually said by: Herbert Spencer (Principles of Biology and earlier works)
Thomas Jefferson Actually said by: Henry David Thoreau (who put it in quotation marks in ‘Civil Disobedience’ and called it a motto)
The Bible Actually said by: John Wesley (Sermons, no 93, ‘On Dress’)
Confucius Actually said by: Lao-Tzu (To Te Ching)
The Bible Actually said by: Aesop (“The gods help them that help themselves”)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Actually said by: Francois Rabelais (“The good God is in the details”)
Harry S Truman Actually said by: Harry Vaughn (Truman’s friend, whom Truman was quoting)
V I Lenin Actually said by: Jonathan Swift (Polite conversation: “promises are like pie crust, leaven to be broken”)
Mark Twain Actually said by: Edgar Wilson Nye
Hermann Goring Actually said by: Hanns Johst (1933 play Schlageter: “Whenever I hear the word ‘culture’, I reach for my Browning”)
Vince Lombardi Actually said by: Red Sanders (UCLA football coach; quoted in Sports Illustrated, 1955)
The Bible Actually said by: Samuel Butler (Hudibras, 1664)
Muhammad Ali Actually said by: Drew ‘Bundini’ Brown (Ali’s good friend)
Queen Marie Antoinette Actually said by: Jean-Jacques Rousseau (In his ‘Confessions’, 1767) Source: The Book of Lists
