Was it Shakespeare? No, it was Lucy and Ricky. "Lucy, You Got some Splainin to do." Can you imagine finding out that e never said this exact phrase. And he never said: "Lucy, I'm home. "
There are more quotes that were never said: "We're gonna need a bigger boat." "Luke, I am your father." "Play it again, Sam." "Do you feel lucky, punk?" They are all immortal lines from the big screen. "Beam me up, Scotty." That was never said, either. The closest was "Beam us up, Mr Scott." That was once. Or "Damn it, Jim! I'm a doctor." Or "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it." It must be TV sci-fi shows. One of our favourites was to run around waving our arms exclaiming: "Danger, Will Robinson" - it was only exclaimed once on Lost in Space.
How do we live in such a poor recall time where we twist up and contort things?
We didn't ever twist Shakespeare's famous lines. Take Hamlet's soliloquy's first line "To be, or not to be: that is the question".
There's Polonius' pep talk: "This above all: to thine own self be true."
Or Malvolio in Twelfth Night: “…be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em.”
Yes, and you can quote Shakespeare exactly on: "All the world's a stage" and "What a piece of work is man".
Another place we get quotes wrong is the Bible: 'Money is the root of all evil.' It actually is: The love of money is the root of all evil, according to Timothy 6:10.
But we don't actually get the words wrong in the Bible. The explanations are that we are misinterpreting the meaning, rather than getting the actual words wrong. That brings us back to Ricky who might say "You've got some splaining to do about this Bible verse."
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