What quotes become inappropriate when mis-attributed?

Elemonator

I'll start off:

"To be the best you have to beat the best" - Chris Brown
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." - Adolf Hitler
"A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart" - Steve Irwin
"Nailed it" - Jesus Christ

mattser

Ya Wha ?

"They see me rollin', they hatin'"

Prof. Stephen Hawking.

Mervyn Skidmore

Elemonator wrote: »

I'll start off:

"To be the best you have to beat the best" - Chris Brown
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." - Adolf Hitler
"A true friend reaches for your hand and touches your heart" - Steve Irwin
"Nailed it" - Jesus Christ

Why not just post a link to Reddit where you saw these?

The Moldy Gowl

So you are ripping off a reddit thread but don't even use thier top comments?

What kind of ****poster are you?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4b2m5a/which_quote_becomes_inappropriate_when/

The flying mouse

The Moldy Gowl wrote: »

So you are ripping off a reddit thread but don't even use thier top comments?

What kind of ****poster are you?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4b2m5a/which_quote_becomes_inappropriate_when/

Kinky is using a feather. Perverted is using the whole chicken"- Col. Harland Sanders

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs --Stephen Hawking

I like these,
made them up myself :-)

Elemonator

Mervyn Skidmore wrote: »

Why not just post a link to Reddit where you saw these?

Because I want original ones of from an Irish audience. To get them rolling I included the Reddit ones. Problem?

Elemonator

The Moldy Gowl wrote: »

So you are ripping off a reddit thread but don't even use thier top comments?

What kind of ****poster are you?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4b2m5a/which_quote_becomes_inappropriate_when/

Big deal. Did anyone die? I think not. Get off your high horse.

An example of your hypocrisy: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=93207503

longshanks

Bitch better have my money
That hoe better have all my cash
Bitch better have my money
Or Ima plant my boot in her ass

Often attributed to Pope John Paul II who was supposedly referring to Mother Theresa, it is in fact a little poem by none other than Willy Shakespeare.

johnnyskeleton

Elemonator wrote: »

Because I want original ones of from an Irish audience. To get them rolling I included the Reddit ones. Problem?

"The difference between an homage and plagarism is whether you have the good grace to admit you were caught out" - Elemonator

Elemonator

Elemonator wrote: »

I'll start off:

"To be the best you have to beat the best" - Chris Brown

http://insidepulse.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ric-flair.jpg

Elemonator

johnnyskeleton wrote: »

"The difference between an homage and plagarism is whether you have the good grace to admit you were caught out" - Elemonator

In fairness, they haven't been defrauded. I get no personal gain out of it.

Junkyard Tom

"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

Marilyn Monroe.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

"Be the change you want to see in the world"
- Adolf Hitler.

Junkyard Tom

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

Bob Marley.

Thephantomsmask

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs - Henry the VIII

longshanks

'Bitches ain't nothing but hoes and tricks'

Germaine Greer.

maudgonner

'If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best'

Adolf Hitler.

Roger_007

"If at first you don't suck seed, try, try, and try again"

Polly the parrot.

SEPT 23 1989

We've all lost someone we love. But we do it my way! We do it my way. Fear is our ally. The gasoline will be ours. Then you shall have your revenge.

Michael D Higgins

gramar

'It's a game of two halves'

- Anon talking about a basketball match

AnonoBoy

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

- Salah Abdeslam.

Speedwell

...either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that he commanded us to serve the poor and needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.

-- Donald Trump

Really Stephen Colbert.

maudgonner

Thephantomsmask wrote: »

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs - Henry the VIII

'Zip up yer mickey!'

- Catherine of Aragon

Kev_2012

This

maudgonner

'Well Holy God, Biddy!"

- Richard Dawkins.

gramar

'that's not a real gun'

- Reeva Steenkamp

Speedwell

"That's not a knife. THIS is a knife."

--Gordon Ramsay

MonkeyTennis

Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.

--Garth Brooks

Speedwell

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

--Marquis de Sade

Eleanor Roosevelt.

Speedwell

"I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!"

--Jesus

Charles M. Schultz

iguana

"Let them eat cake" Marie Antoinette Capet

maudgonner wrote: »

'Well Holy God, Biddy!"

- Richard Dawkins.

Funnily enough Mick Lally was an atheist and considered religion to be 'codology.'

maudgonner

If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.
- Kneemos


(Really it was Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, the internet tells me)

cml387

"As a nation we are living beyond our means" Charles Haughey

I think I'm doing it wrong.

Martypants1

WTF? You just stole this thread idea from reddit.....

A new low...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4b2m5a/which_quote_becomes_inappropriate_when/

Ruu

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman"

- Casanova

cml387

"I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member."

Jose Mourinho

razorblunt

"Don't touch my eggs, I'll be back on Sunday".

Jesus H Christ.

silverharp

You can't handle the truth! - Bertie Ahern

razorblunt

Martypants1 wrote: »

WTF? You just stole this thread idea from reddit.....

A new low...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4b2m5a/which_quote_becomes_inappropriate_when/

Pretty sure that's how a lot of threads in AH start.

Maximus Alexander

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

- Donald Trump

Skylinehead

Martypants1 wrote: »

WTF? You just stole this thread idea from reddit.....

A new low...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/4b2m5a/which_quote_becomes_inappropriate_when/

I don't think you understand how the Internet works.


(Abraham Lincoln)

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
- Michael D Higgins

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo

It's okay to eat fish cause they don't have any feelings.
- Martin 's Mad About Fish Guy on RTE

BattleCorp

“The soul is healed by being with children.” - Jimmy Saville

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Jaden

"I'll need some Chemicals to remove this Polish" - Adolf H.

gramar

“If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.”

Sean Dunne

Elemonator

"My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars"- God

gramar

"I love the smell of napalm in the morning"

Gerry Adams

gramar

"Show me the money"

Any Irish Politician

gramar

"A boy's best friend is his mother"

Daniel O'Donnell