Who is the most quotable person in history?

Wits, statesmen and a baseball catcher who never set out to be profound. Half the lines credited to these people were never said by any of them.

1. 1
   Oscar Wilde

   Wrote plays around his own epigrams and got away with it.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Mark Twain

   Attributed with more aphorisms than he actually wrote, which is its own kind of fame.
   982pts
3. 3
   Mahatma Gandhi

   Short, plain sentences that survive translation into every language.
   538pts
4. 4
   Muhammad Ali

   Wrote his own press coverage out loud, in rhyme, before the fights.
   538pts
5. 5
   Benjamin Franklin

   Filled an almanac with proverbs and signed them with someone else's name.
   538pts
6. 6
   Maya Angelou

   Lines about how people make you feel now outlive the poems they came from.
   538pts
7. 7
   Dorothy Parker

   The sharpest voice at the Algonquin Round Table, and the most repeated.
   440pts
8. 8
   Abraham Lincoln

   Gettysburg aside, he wrote letters that read like they were built to be carved.
   440pts
9. 9
   Groucho Marx

   Delivered lines so tight they work in print without the eyebrows.
   440pts
10. 10
    Albert Einstein

    The world's default source for any sentence that sounds wise about imagination.
    323pts
11. 11
    William Shakespeare

    Supplied English with more standing phrases than any other single writer.
    323pts
12. 12
    Winston Churchill

    So quotable that dictionaries of quotations now carry warnings about lines wrongly credited to him.
    0pts
13. 13
    Confucius

    The oldest name in the quotation business, and still the most misattributed.
    0pts

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