12 Famous Quotes You Remember Wrong

1. "You were supposed to fight evil, not join it!"

All Star Wars fans (and a lot of non-fans) know this Obi-Wan Kenobi line thanks to a popular meme. Anakin Skywalker turned to the dark side of the force, and the heroes began the battle.

In the midst of a battle, a desperate Jedi yells at the renegade, "You were supposed to fight evil, not join it!" At least that's how it looks in the picture. But in the film, this moment sounds completely different.

2. "Spinning, spinning blue ball"

This song belongs to the category of those that everyone seems to know, but no one remembers where. Someone might think that she is associated with disco balls on the dance floors. But in reality, this piece of music is very old, and appeared when discos had not yet been invented.

Art critic and philologist Nahum Shafer claimsAnthology of urban Russian song for 100 years (1850s - 1950s) / Books and works by Naum Shaferthat the romance "Spinning, spinning" has been known at least since the middle of the 19th century. And initially, its text was slightly different from the popular among the people - just one letter.

Over time, the letter F dropped out of the word "scarf", because it was not clearly heard there, and everyone began to hum "ball". For example, Alexander Green in his storyGreen A. FROM. Collected works in five volumes 1906 "Elephant and Pug" and writes - "The ball is blue."

But initially, the romance was about thin gas women's scarves fashionable in the 19th century. And disco balls have nothing to do with it.

3. "Evil can't create anything new"

All fans of the work of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien are now hearing the phrase: “Evil is not capable of create nothing new, it can only distort and destroy what has been invented or made by the forces of good". This is what fans of The Lord of the Rings repeat, dissatisfied with Amazon's approach to creating a new prequel series "Rings of power".

In Tolkien's books there were indeed lines similar in meaning, but they were pronounced in a different context. Frodo was captured by the orcs, and Sam went to save him. They began to think about how to get out of the fortress and whether it is possible to get food there. Sam suggested that the darkspawn "do not eat, do not drink, only feed on smoke and poison", but Frodo objected to him.

4. "A lie will go halfway around the world while the truth puts on its shoes"

This quote is constantly attributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, Thomas Jefferson, Ann Landers, and sometimes Terry Pratchett. But none of them uttered the phrase in the form in which it is known.

In fact authorA Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes / Quote Investigator a similar aphorism is Jonathan Swift. He wrote in his newspaper The Examiner in 1710 the following phrase.

5. "With great power comes great responsibility"

This quote is repeated by everyone who is familiar with the Marvel universe in general and Spider-Man in particular. Usually it is put into the mouth of Peter Parker's mentor, Uncle Ben, but in the movie Spider-Man: No Way Home, Aunt May said something similar.

But in the version known to the people, the phrase does not appear anywhere in the comics. For the first time something like this mentionedWith great power comes great responsibility / Quote/Counterquote in the 1962 issue. But the characters don't say the quote, it's just Peter thinking about the consequences of his actions at the end of the comic: “And his lean, silent figure slowly disappears into the gathering darkness, finally realizing that in this world with great power must come great responsibility!” Not "comes", but only "should".

It is very likely that the authors of the comics gleanedConvention Nationale (Paris). Collection generale des decrets rendus par la Convention Nationale wording from the address of the French National Assembly in 1793, which, in turn, took something similar from Voltaire.

6. "Ride me, big turtle!"

Most people who watched the cartoon "How the Lion and the Turtle sang a song" remembered two lines from there. These are “I am lying in the sun, I am looking at the sun ...” and “Ride me, big turtle!”. The first is quoted correctly, but none of the characters uttered the second. In fact, the cartoon character spoke differently.

7. "640 kilobytes should be enough for everyone"

The phrase is attributed to Bill Gates, co-founder of the well-known Microsoft Corporation. It is usually used to emphasize how stupid it is to make any kind of predictions in the field of technology that is developing so quickly.

But Bill didn't predict that. In 1985 InfoWorld magazine attributedComputer Memory: 640K Ought to be Enough for Anyone / Quote Investigator him the following phrase: "When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640 KB, we thought that no one would ever need so much memory."

Gates much later refutedComputer Memory: 640K Ought to be Enough for Anyone / Quote Investigator these words: “I said a lot of stupid things and wrong things, but not this. No one who deals with computers will ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time..

Bill is right. But people who are not computer savvy can blurt out something similar.

In fact, the author of the quote can be called actor and comedian Bob Newhart. In the Los Angeles Times he toldHappy Birthday PC! /Los Angeles Timeshow he bought a Commodore PET device with 16 KB of memory in 1977 for his sons. Then he became interested in computers and bought another one for himself.

8. “The song helps us to build and live”

Everyone remembers the words of this famous Soviet song incorrectly. Revisit the corresponding moment in the movie "Merry Boys", and you will understand that the lines there are completely different.

9. “Saving the drowning is the work of the drowning themselves”

The quote from Ilf and Petrov's "12 Chairs" is repeated in this form. Sometimes they also say “as the great strategist Ostap Bender said.”

But the hero in the book did not say this, and the phrase was writtenAND. Ilf, E. Petrov. The twelve Chairs in the form of a slogan on the wall in the club where the chess tournament was held with a pseudo-grandmaster. She had stayed there since the evening of the Water Rescue Society last week and looked like this:

10. "Children's shoes for sale, never worn"

There is a legend about how once Ernest Hemingway was sitting in a restaurant with other writers. They had a bet on who could come up with the shortest story that could make them cry. Old Ham wrote "Children's Shoes for Sale, Never Worn" on a napkin and allegedly won $10 from each of the diners.

A very touching story, but there is no evidence that Hemingway ever wrote such a story. Most likely, he attributedFor Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn / Quote Investigator a literary agent named Peter Miller in his 1991 book. In it, he gave advice to young authors on how to write correctly.

But Miller didn't come up with the napkin story himself. First story like this publishedFor Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn / Quote Investigator in the newspaper of the town of Ironwood in 1906. Its author is unknown.

Another version of the story, which appeared in the same newspaper in 1910: “Children's handmade pants and a crib are for sale. Never been used."

11. "Marx's teaching is true because it is true"

This quote by Ilyich is repeated to prove that the communists blindly believed in their ideology as in religion. In reality, however, he said quite differently.

He wroteIN. AND. Lenin. Three sources and three components of Marxism phrase at the very beginning of his essay of March 1913 "Three Sources and Three Components of Marxism", after which he began to prove why, in fact, it is true. However, how much he succeeded is a completely different question.

12. In my house I ask you not to express yourself!

A phrase that fans of the film "Prisoner of the Caucasus" repeat whenever they hear unfamiliar terms - for example, "voluntarism." But in the tape it sounded a little different: without the word "please."