Further typical features of the proverb are its shortness ( average: seven words ), and the fact that its author is generally unknown ( otherwise it would be a quotation ).

A quotation frequently attributed to Thucydides on the Internet, but which is in fact spurious ( ref needed ), is:

The future Labour leader Michael Foot remarked to a reporter that it was " tragic " that this " outstanding personality " had been widely misunderstood as predicting actual bloodshed in Britain, when in fact he had used the Aeneid quotation merely to communicate his own sense of foreboding.

" In fact one modern scholar has observed in Bacchylides a general tendency towards imitation, sometimes approaching the level of quotation: in this case, the eagle simile in Ode 5 may be thought to imitate a passage in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( 375 – 83 ), and the countless leaves fluttering in the wind on " the gleaming headlands of Ida ", mentioned later in the ode, recall a passage in Iliad ( 6. 146 – 9 ).

Earlier research tended to overlook the erotic aspect of the love of the partheneions ; thus, instead of the verb translated as " guards ",, at the end of the first quotation, the papyrus has in fact the more explicit, " wears me out ( with love )".

The proverb was apparently based on an anecdote about Ibycus stupidly or nobly turning down an opportunity to become tyrant of Rhegium in order to pursue a poetic career instead ( one modern scholar however infers from his poetry that Ibycus was in fact wise enough to avoid the lure of supreme power, citing as an example Plato's quotation from one of his lyrics: " I am afraid it may be in exchange for some sin before the gods that I get honour from men ") There is no other information about Ibycus ' activities in the West, apart from an account by Himerius, that he fell from his chariot while travelling between Catana and Himera and injured his hand badly enough to give up playing the lyre " for some considerable time.

The future Labour leader Michael Foot remarked to a reporter that it was " tragic " that this " outstanding personality " had been widely misunderstood as predicting actual bloodshed in Britain, when in fact he had used the Aeneid quotation merely to communicate his own sense of foreboding.

* Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt ( Le Mépris ) ( 1963 ) opens with a quotation wrongly attributed to Bazin ( in fact the author of the quotation is French film critic and playwright Michel Mourlet from his article " Sur un art ignoré " in Cahiers du cinéma, no.

The original Greek text, in the quotation from the prophet Isaiah, uses the verb εὐαγγελίσασθαι ( euangelisasthai ), which is a compound of εὐ ( good ) and αγγέλω ( announce ; from this same root the word angel is formed, an angel in fact is a messenger ).

For example, many so-called " CSV " files in fact use the tab character instead of comma ( such files can be more precisely referred to as " TSV " for tab separated values ); some allow or require single or double quotation marks around some or all fields ; and some reserve the very first record for a list of field names.

" Terry and Rudge assert that Woolley's latter prediction turned out to be quite accurate, and state that the deletion of the first four words of the quotation by newspaper editors was in reaction to the fact that it was those self-same newspaper's hyperbolic articles, talking about space travel, that Woolley was criticising.

I was in favor of " pure " art in spite of the fact that I put quotation marks around " pure " or " purity " whenever I used them, because I don't believe there's any such thing as pure art.

Its theological precision defining Trinitarian and Arian tenets, establishing Reccared's newly-achieved orthodoxy, and its extensive quotation from scripture revealed that it was in fact ghostwritten for the king, doubtless by Leander.

The lack of quotation marks around dialogue means that the speakers ' identities ( or the fact that dialogue is occurring ) may not be immediately apparent to the reader.

A ditloid is a type of word puzzle, in which a phrase, quotation, date, or fact must be deduced from the numbers and abbreviated letters in the clue.

The quotation marks contained in the release are credited to the fact that Phil Elverum considered this to neither be a Microphones project, nor a Mount Eerie release.

This explains the fact that the references speak almost exclusively of the members of the Great Synagogue, the allusions to the body itself being very rare, and based in part on error, as, for example, the quotation from Ab.

An endnote is needed for anything mentioned in the text for which a reasonable reader would want to know the source of the assertion, quotation, or apparent fact.

Under the Federal Rules of Evidence, an excited utterance is a hearsay exception, and is admissible to prove the truth of the statement itself ( e. g., in the case of the first quotation above, to prove that the vehicle the declarant was riding in was, in fact, about to crash ).

" ( In fact the quotation is from another of Kerouac's characters, Jack Duluoz-also based on Kerouac himself-in his 1968 novel Vanity of Duluoz ).

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

In fact it has caused us to give serious thought to moving our residence south, because it is not easy for the most objective Southerner to sit calmly by when his host is telling a roomful of people that the only way to deal with Southerners who oppose integration is to send in troops and shoot the bastards down.

The fact is due mainly to international wars, both hot and cold.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.

The fact is that the Southern Confederacy differed from the earlier one almost as much as the Federal Constitution did.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

In fact the accumulation of the hardware of destruction is day by day increasing our fear of each other.

The new fact the initiates of this cult have to learn is that they must move toward simplicity.

The magic circle is, in fact, a symbol of and preparation for the metaphysical orgasm ''.

Operating as a one man police force in fact if not in name, he is at once more independent and more dedicated than the police themselves.

`` I may possibly be a greater risk than is the normal person of my age '', the President had said on February 29th of the election year, ignoring the fact that no one of his age had ever lived out another term.

In the incessant struggle with recalcitrant political fact he learns to focus the essence of a problem in the significant detail, and to articulate the distinctions which clarify the detail as significant, with what is sometimes astounding rapidity.

we accord it its place there, and in Lawrence's treatment we are given the innocent fantasy of a child, in fact, the form in which oedipal love is expressed in childhood.

There is probably some significance in the fact that two of the best incest stories I have encountered in recent years are burlesques of the incest myth.

How much they esteemed him is shown by the fact that their underground committee selected him as one of the few who would be helped to escape.

That is not to deny that he has been aware of traditions, of course, that he is steeped in them, in fact, or that he has dealt with them, in his books.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

Perhaps the mere fact that by plucking on the nerves nature can awaken in the most ordinary of us, temporarily anyway, the sleeping poet, and in poets can discover their immortality, is the most remarkable of all the remarkable phenomena to which we can attest??