Wesley Willis (1963–2003) American singer-songwriter
Interview with Howard Stern http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPNfSekbTck,
Trailerhood.
Song lyrics, Bullets in the Gun (2010)
Wesley Willis (1963–2003) American singer-songwriter
Interview with Howard Stern http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPNfSekbTck,
Rabia Basri Muslim saint and Sufi mystic
as quoted in Farid al-Din Attar, Memorial of the Friends of God (c. 1230, 2009 Translation edited by Losensky).
Fred P. Cone (1871–1948) American politician
When asked if Florida was a southern state by author Jonathan Daniels
Jonathan Daniels. A Southerner Discovers the South. New York: Macmillan, 1938, p. 310.
René Daumal (1908–1944) French poet and writer
Vol. 2, Essais et Notes
The Lie of the Truth (1938)
“Be awful nice to 'em goin' up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.”
Jimmy Durante (1893–1980) American jazz singer, pianist, comedian and actor
As quoted in The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom (1958) by Herbert Victor Prochnow, p. 409
Variants:
Be nice to people on your way up, because you're going to meet them all on your way down.
As quoted in A Quote for Every Day (2011) edited by Peter A. LaPorta, p. 41
Be nice to people goin' up, because you're going to meet them all comin' down.
Be nice to 'em goin' up, because you're going to meet them all comin' down.
Garth Brooks (1962) American country music artist
Ain't Goin' Down, written by Kent Blazy, Kim Williams, and G. Brooks.
Song lyrics, In Pieces (1993)