
“I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it.”
Bewilderness: New York (audio CD, 2002)
“I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat you over the head with it.”
As quoted in The Quotable Politician https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/159228132X, William B. Whitman, Global Pequot (2003), p. 60.
Letter to H. R. Haldeman
Speaking to police officers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFgjNPiq9Cw at Suffolk County Community College, Long Island (28 July 2017)
2010s, 2017, July
G 4
Variant translations:
It is almost impossible to carry the torch of wisdom through a crowd without singeing someone's beard.
It is virtually impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd, without singeing someone's beard
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook G (1779-1783)
“You can't beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.”
Source: https://www.instagram.com/p/CUrm-SqLq-X/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
“If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.”
A Handshake Is Not Too Much to Ask, Even From a King, William C. Rhoden, The New York Times, June 1, 2009 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/sports/basketball/02rhoden.html,
James answering why he refuses to shake hand with Dwight Howard.