Literary statements that are false as mathematics I recently wanted to use
the title of the famous short story
"Everything that Rises must Converge"
in a poem of mine.
However, the mathematician in me
insisted on changing it to
"Everything that Rises, if the rise is bounded, must Converge".
Are there other literary quotations
that are false mathematically,
and how can they be changed to make them true?
Note:
Attempts to use
"To be or not to be"
will be dealt with
most severely.

The test instructions, “Draw a circle around the correct answer.” really means, “Draw a Jordan curve around the correct answer.” - or, even more accurately, “Draw an approximation of a Jordan curve around the correct answer.”
