QUOTE RESEARCH

FALSE QUOTES with evidence and comments. Hundreds of wrong quotes, memes, cuckoo quotes, citation puzzles, apocryphal, problematic and distorted quotes, misquotations, misattributed and fake quotes. (The collection is constantly being expanded.) By GERALD KRIEGHOFER.

Saturday April 21, 2018

"A man should plant a tree in his life, build a house and father a son." Martin Luther (allegedly)

The old adage is sometimes attributed to Martin Luther, among others, but has not been found in his writings.

The origin of the proverb is in two sources: in the Babylonian Talmud and in Montesquieu’s letter novel "Persian letters".