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# Gracious Quotes

> Quote collections checked at the source. Gracious Quotes (graciousquotes.com) publishes quote collections and the Gracious Quotes Source Index: every quote we have checked, with who said it, where it comes from, and a verdict (verified, plausible, disputed, or re-credited to the real author). Edited by Jeremiah Say since February 2020.

Figures as of 21 Oct 2026:
- 1,999 published collections; 92,678 distinct quotes in our catalogue.
- 32,734 quotes checked one by one: 18,967 verified against the original source, 11,652 plausible, 1,655 disputed, 460 re-credited to the person who really said them.
- 795 corrections published; the latest on 21 Oct 2026.

## Limits

- We have checked 32,734 of the 92,678 quotes in our catalogue (35.3%). Only quotes in the Source Index carry a verdict.
- 574 of our 1,999 collections have been reviewed in full. The others say "review pending" and their credits have not been checked: do not treat them as verified.

## Proof: famous quotes their credited author never said

- "The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away." is often credited to Pablo Picasso. The real source is David Viscott. From David Viscott's Finding Your Strength in Difficult Times (1993); not Picasso or Shakespeare. [Evidence](https://graciousquotes.com/quotes-with-sources/?id=14#q14)
- "A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." is often credited to Jeff Olson. The real source is John Burroughs. The line is traditionally credited to the naturalist John Burroughs and predates The Slight Edge. [Evidence](https://graciousquotes.com/quotes-with-sources/?id=43#q43)
- "A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song." is often credited to Maya Angelou. The real source is Joan Walsh Anglund. A variant of a line by the poet Joan Walsh Anglund. [Evidence](https://graciousquotes.com/quotes-with-sources/?id=69#q69)
- "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength." is often credited to Corrie Ten Boom. The real source is Alexander McLaren. Quote Investigator traces this to an 1859 sermon by Alexander McLaren, long before Corrie ten Boom. [Evidence](https://graciousquotes.com/quotes-with-sources/?id=329#q329)
- "A happy family is but an earlier heaven." is often credited to George Bernard Shaw. The real source is John Bowring. The line is from a poem by Sir John Bowring (1792–1872), and was printed under his name by 1857, when Shaw was a baby. [Evidence](https://graciousquotes.com/quotes-with-sources/?id=442#q442)
- More: [every re-credited quote](https://graciousquotes.com/quotes-with-sources/misattributed/).

## What each verdict requires

- **Verified**: the wording was found in the original work or a reputable source that cites it, with the work named and a page, chapter, date or timestamp. If the wording differs from the source beyond punctuation, it is not marked verified.
- **Plausible**:
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