Gandhi actually said, “If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. … We need not wait to see what others do.”

Mark Twain didn’t say this, instead it was either Edward Ward or Christopher Bullock.

Written by 17th century author William Congreve, he actually said, “Heaven has no rage like to love to hatred turned/ Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.”

Marie Antoinette never said this—the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rosseau did. What’s more, he wasn’t even talking about Marie, or cake. He wrote, “Let them eat brioche!”

This quote was actually a paragraph out of author Marianne Williamson’s 1992 book “Return to Love:Reflections on the Principles of ‘A Course in Miracles.'”

Captain Kirk never said this exact phrase, although he did urge Scotty on more than one occasion to get him back to the ship ASAP.

Gandhi didn’t say this, and it’s strikingly similar to a quote by union activist Nicholas Klein in 1918: “First they ignore you. Then they ridcule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”

In Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice,” the merchant actually says “All that glisters is not gold.” There’s no mention of glitter or glistening.

Marilyn didn’t say this, it was actually University of New Hampshire student turned Harvard professor Laurel Thatcher Ulrich.

Although a similar conversation occurred between Jane and Tarzan, this sentence was never said.

The closest thing Hannibal Lector says to this quote in the movie is “Good evening, Clarice.”

What Roosevelt really said is “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”

This was never said in the movie “Dracula.”

Machiavelli actually said, “One must consider the final result.” But that’s just not catchy.

No one on the Apollo 13 crew said this.

According to Armstrong, what he really said was “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” This quote is basically the same, but the missing word makes all the difference. Technically ‘man’ and ‘mankind’ are synonyms, so it doesn’t really make sense the other way. It wasn’t Armstrong’s fault though, the transmission blurred the wording.

The actual quote-“A journey of 400 miles begins beneath one’s feet”- was said by Lao Tzu, not Confucius.

This line is actually, “ No, I am your father.”

Freud really said “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”

This quote is often attributed to Martin Luther King, Jr. However, it actually came from the Facebook status of a 24-year-old teacher following the death of Osama Bin Laden.