arundelo comments on Rationality Quotes August 2012 - Less Wrong
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A favorite of mine, but according to Wikiquote G.K. Chesterton said it first, in chapter 14 of What's Wrong With The World:
I like Simon's version better: it flows without the awkward pause for the comma.
Yep, it seems that often epigrams are made more epigrammatic by the open-source process of people misquoting them. I went looking up what I thought was another example of this, but Wiktionary calls it "[l]ikely traditional" (though the only other citation is roughly contemporary with Maslow).
Memetics in action - survival of the most epigrammatic!