Incomplete quotes

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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?

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