“Can't help our damned parents which is why we have to thrash our damned children”
Major General Nairn, p. 21
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)
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Father and Child Reunion (2001)
Source: Milner, in a speech given in Glasgow on November 26, 1909, on Lloyd George's "People's Budget", presented to Parliament, Lord Alfred Milner, cited in The Nation and The Empire, Constable, 1913, pgs. 400-401
Source: Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians (1535), Chapter 2
“Damn it all, you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.”
On his position in the Labour Party (c. 1956), quoted in Michael Foot, Aneurin Bevan: A Biography, Volume 2 (1973), p. 503
1950s
“We believed in our idea — a family park where parents and children could have fun — together. ”
Source: 1940s, And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America (1942), p. 234—235; cited in Portraits Of Industry (2004) by Lorie A. Annarella, p. 5
“It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.”
Sometimes reported as having been a retort to statements of his political rival, John Quincy Adams, who had boycotted Harvard University's awarding of a Doctorate of Laws degree to Jackson in 1833, declaring "I would not be present to witness her [Harvard's] disgrace in conferring her highest literary honors on a barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and could hardly spell his own name." Quoted in News Reporting and Writing 4th edition (1987) by M. Mencher.
Unsourced variant: Never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.
Likely misattributed http://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/06/25/spelling/