Quotes About Misnomer

Basically if you study entrepreneurs, there is a misnomer: People think that entrepreneurs take risk, and they get rewarded because they take risk. In reality entrepreneurs do everything they can to minimize risk. They are not interested in taking risk. They want free lunches and they go after free lunches.

It goes back to keeping things equal. Friendship feels really demeaning if one person still likes the other more, which is probably what caused the breakup in the first place. It's such a misnomer that 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend' have the word 'friend' in them. I don't know, Dom. It's screwed up that people who dug each other enough to go out can't at least stay friends afterward. Spoken by a true love virgin.

hardly academically rigorous, revealed that English breakfast tea was misnamed in several ways. It came from India, Sri Lanka and Kenya, not England. It was imported to the British Isles by the Portuguese, who drank it in the afternoon. A Scotsman popularized its consumption at breakfast.

i've heard this called st. peter's square, arlene said. but it isn't square. it's oval.

Sweetbread is not sweet and it's not bread.

And by the way to call Mitch McConnell a leader is a misnomer because he is not leading.

Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.

In what's usually referred to as "the Columbian Exchange" -one of history's great misnomers, given the genocide that followed - Europe took so much of value from the Indigenous people of what became known as North and South America that it was able to rule most of the world until the mid-twentieth century.