"What I've Learned: Alex Trebek", Esquire, March 2003.
“Show me your garden, provided
it be your own, and I will tell you what you are
like.”
Source: The Garden that I Love (1905)
Downs to Governor of Connecticut Abraham Ribicoff at the 1960 Democratic National Convention after being literally shaken down by the man due to his anger over Murrow's criticism of Joseph McCarthy, as quoted in A.M. Sperber's Murrow: His Life and Times.
“You must have plenty of sea-room to tell the truth in.”
Hawthorne and His Mosses (1850)
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You, written by Bryan Adams, Mutt Lange, and Michael Kamen
Song lyrics, Waking Up the Neighbours (1991)
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”
Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es.
Aphorism #4 http://books.google.com/books?id=enUTAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Dis-moi+ce+que+tu+manges+je+te+dirai+ce+que+tu+es%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage, Physiologie du Goût (1825)
“Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!”
On Pain (1934)
“If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.”
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book IV, Ch. 5.
