Footprints in the Sand

From a recent beach trip.

“Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the

sand.”

– Dr. Seuss

"Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and departing,

leave behind us footprints on the sands of time."

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“True friends will leave footprints in your heart.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the

bloody footprints."

– Alfred Hitchcock

"A good runner leaves no footprints."

– Lao Tzu

A runner, huh? How about a thief? I began to wonder how many of these quotations were actually said by those people. Misattributed quotes is a growing problem on the Internet...

1. “Elementary my dear Watson.” —Sherlock Holmes

Oh yeah, that's Sherlock Holmes, right? NOPE. Sherlock Holmes has said both "elementary" and "dear, Watson" at some point, but never together. According to Sherlockian, the foremost authority on everything Sherlock Homes, the phrase is from P.G. Wodehouse’s novel Psmith, Journalist published in 1915. Although the novel does not star Sherlock Holmes, Wodehouse does reference him while writing this now famous line.

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