Indexed in the public record
“A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.”
Provenance
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- c5a400fb4cf178a0d8bab043558849d20a5f8e1ead5ef1589096f1b14df93f86
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
Thomas Edison
RegisterMyQuote seed corpus (src/lib/seed-quotes.ts)
“There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius…”
James Russell Lowell
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.”
Publius Syrus
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.”
Charles Churchill
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.”
Sir Philip Sidney
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess…”
Winston Churchill
Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.