"If you want intelligent children," Einstein is said to have remarked, "read them fairy tales".
As one writer remarked after reading my memoir Yorkie Doodle Dandy, "Whenever I think of Smoky I go hug my dogs".
How often do remarks read online turn out to be misquoted?
"The calculated quota share of Luxembourg is larger than the one of Argentina or South Africa," his remarks read.
"This was to be bare knuckles, hand-to-hand combat," he said, in remarks read by Allan R. Talbot, a friend.
His original remarks read like a memo to New York: God let suicide bombers kill what could turn out to be more than 5,600 people in the World Trade Center disaster because he disapproved of Sin City.
"Welcome to the launch of Call Me Dave and I'm sorry that I cannot be with you this evening," Ashcroft said in opening remarks read out by his publisher, Iain Dale.
Zuckerberg's tone-deaf remarks read like 1,000 words of patting himself on the back.
The 12 peers good-and-true had Swartz' remarks read back to them, as they pondered his claim that he didn't report the bonus on his tax returns that year and that the amount was unintentionally left off his W-2 income disclosure.
"No amount of tweets or forced remarks read from a teleprompter could undo the damage".
