evidence: A Facebook post claims that President Abraham Lincoln once said, "It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years." [...] Many web pages that post memorable quotes attribute this saying to Lincoln, but The Daily Caller News Foundation found no evidence that he ever made this statement. It does not appear in his collected works. (RELATED: Did Abraham Lincoln Say, ‘The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Create It’?) [...] "This quote is often misappropriated to Lincoln," says Daniel Worthington, director of the Papers of Abraham Lincoln, in an email to TheDCNF. "It actually comes from an advertisement in the Chicago newspaper from 1947."