I wonder why so many people have closed their accounts lately.

Although, as I recently posted in another thread, Twain is also often misattributed as the source of numerous popular quotes well:

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - not Mark Twain

"I cried because I had no shoes, 'til I met a man who had no feet."

That one does come from The Autobigraphy of Mark Twain, but there Twain credits Benjamin Disraeli as his source (They Never Said It, 123-124).

Never play hide-and-seek against the chess.com Forum system! (It hides them in the sense that they are still on the DB.)

Every quotation has been falsely attributed to either Twain or Churchill, if not both. -Winston

And Will Rogers-- he had a bunch of great lines, but he's not as well known out of the U.S. (though some of his lines may be, attributed to other people).

Will Rogers quotes: (as far as I know, anyway . . . ):

• Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
• I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.
• I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they do today.
• Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
• An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh. 

And then there are those quotes that remain forever unattributed:

"Political Correctness: A doctrine... which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."  - Anonymous

it actually doesn't. we don't DELETE from the table - just disable. 

"'Half of the people can be part right all of the time
Some of the people can be all right part of the time
But all of the people can’t be all right all of the time.'
      I think Abraham Lincoln said that
'I’ll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours'
      I said that"

-Bob Dylan

Just my two cents, I joined Chess.com as a Diamond member 2 years ago so that I could watch the video lessons. Take a quick look at my rating graph and you tell me if I think it was worth the investment: http://main.uschess.org/datapage/ratings_graph.php?memid=12681247

Where was Erik for you back in 1996?!

i didnt kniow i could only have a single account so i made three i then found out i was in the wrong so i reported myseld and waited for them to answer they told i must close 2 accounts and just keep , thats what i did.

So i never left just did what i think its the right thing to do , sorry i cause you all this truble by resigning my games before closing the accounts.

One of the problems with Lincoln research is that he was practically diefied after his assassination. Many wild stories and wise quotations were falsely attributed to him. I thought both quotes were Lincoln quotes, and I'm certain I read the "It's better to remain silent" quote in a book. Thanks for the info. 

She was married when we first met
Soon to be divorced
I helped her out of a jam, I guess,
But I used a little too much force.
We drove that car as far as we could
Abandoned it out West
Split up on a dark sad night
Both agreeing it was best.
She turned around to look at me
As I was walkin' away
I heard her say over my shoulder,
"We'll meet again someday on the avenue,"
Tangled up in blue.

            - Bob Dylan

i wonder how its all this related to me resigning all my games and closing my account

Visions of Johanna

Bob Dylan

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We're all sitting here stranded, doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind

In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman's bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the "D" train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it's him or them that's really insane
Louise, she's all right, she's just near
She's delicate and seems like veneer
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna's not here
Ghost-electricity howls in the bones of her face
And these visions of Johanna have now taken my place

Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he enjoys living dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a good-by kiss she left for me
He must have a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I'm in the hall
How can I explain?
Oh, it's so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn

Inside the museum, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, "Jeeze
I can't find my knees"
Jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
And these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel

The prince now speaks to the countess who's pretending to care for him
Sayin', "Show me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
But like Louise always says
"Ya can't look at much 'till your mind or she itself prepares for him
My madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev'rything's been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
Harmonicas playing, a skeleton key and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain

I don't see what you all are complaining about... if this site offered bughouse, I'd never leave my computer.

"If there's a stump in the field, I plow around it."

-Honest Abe