Incomplete quotes
I’m collecting a bunch of incomplete quotes where the meaning is perverted::
- No more; where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise. (Thomas Gray in “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College”)
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance)
- The customer is always right, in matters of taste. (Harry Gordon Selfridge, John Wanamaker,or Marshall Field, all department store magnates).
- Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it burned in one.
- The love of money is the root of all evil
- One bad apple spoils the barrel
- My country right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right (Carl Schurz)
- Blood of the covenant is thicker than water of the womb.
- the proof of the pudding is in the eating
- Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing. (Vince Lombardi)
- History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. (Karl Marx)
- Why can not a man lift himself up by pulling up his bootstraps?