“Saying and doing are two things.”

— Matthew Henry

Matthew 21.
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Matthew Henry 38

Theologician from Wales 1662–1714

Publilio Siro Latin writer

Misattributed as Maxim 7, p. 13 https://books.google.com/books?id=GKFGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA13&dq=%22To+do+two+things+at+once+is+to+do+neither.%22
Variant of:
Duos qui sequitur lepores neutrum capit
Who chases two rabbits catches neither.
A Dictionary of Quotations in most frequent Use, David Evans Macdonnel, 1797, quoted in The Monthly Review, 1798, p. 467 https://books.google.com/books?id=KYhPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA467&dq=%22duos+qui+sequitur+lepores+neutrum+capit%22
Apparently of medieval or modern origin, not found in antiquity.
Misattributed

“The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

“It was extraordinary to be in two places at once, doing two different things — extraordinary, but not confusing.”

Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author

Let's Be Frank (1957)
Context: It was extraordinary to be in two places at once, doing two different things — extraordinary, but not confusing. He merely had two bodies which were as integrated as his two hands had been.

“When two do the same thing, it is not the same thing after all.”

Publilio Siro Latin writer

Maxim 338
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave

“Mystics, contrary to religionists, are always saying that reality is not two things — God and the world — but one thing, consciousness.”

Amit Goswami (1936) American physicist

Interview with Suzie Daggett at Insight: Healthy Living (July 2006).
Context: Mystics, contrary to religionists, are always saying that reality is not two things — God and the world — but one thing, consciousness. It is a monistic view of reality based on consciousness that mystics claim to directly intuit. The problem with science has always been that most scientists believe that science must be done within a different monistic framework, one based on the primacy of matter. And then, quantum physics showed us that we must change that myopic prejudice of scientists, otherwise we cannot comprehend quantum physics. So now we have science within consciousness, a new paradigm of science based on the primacy of consciousness that is gradually replacing the old materialist science. Why? Not only because you can't understand quantum physics without this new metaphysics but also because the new paradigm resolves many other paradoxes of the old paradigm and explains much anomalous data.

“Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. And that makes the whole thing mutual — America sees two John Kerrys.”

Dick Cheney (1941) American politician and businessman

Acceptance Speech http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0909-14.htm at the Republican National Convention. - Video and text available. (1 September 2004)
2000s, 2004

“Most of us can easily do two things at once; what’s all but impossible is to do one thing at once.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“The only two good things in life are doing mathematics and teaching it.”

Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840) French mathematician, mechanician and physicist

La vie n'est bonne qu'à deux choses : à faire des mathématiques et à les professer.
quoted by François Arago in Notices biographiques, Volume 2 http://books.google.fr/books?pg=PA662&id=ZzNLAAAAYAAJ#v=onepage&q&f=false, 1854, p. 662.

“I hope the next time I move I get a real easy phone number, something that's real easy to remember. Something like two two two two two two two. I would say "Sweet." And then people would say "Mitch, how do I get a hold of you?" I'd say "Just press two for a while and when I answer, you will know you have pressed two enough."”

Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian

Strategic Grill Locations

“What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

Attributed in Teaching Music Through Performance In Band, Vol. 3 (2000), edited by Richard B. Miles, Larry Blocher, Eugene Corporon, p. 13
2000s

“Saying and doing are two things.”

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