“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Richard E. Cole (1915–2019) career officer in the United States Air Force and participant in the Doolittle Raid (1915-2019)
"Richard Cole, 103, Last Survivor of Doolittle Raid on Japan, Dies" in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/obituaries/richard-cole-dead.html (9 April 2019)
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2019, June, Remarks on the 75th Anniversary of D-Day in Colleville-sur-Mer, France
Sooronbay Jeenbekov (1958) President of Kyrgyzstan
"President Sooronbay Jeenbekov's address to the Nation in connection with the pandemic and the upcoming elections" https://mfa.gov.kg/en/Menu---Foreign-/News/News-and-Events/President-Sooronbay-Jeenbekovs-address-to-the-Nation-in-connection-with-the-pandemic-and-the-upcoming-elections (30 June 2020)
Neal Stephenson (1959) American science fiction writer
Diachronicle: Days 57–221 (winter, year 0)
Source: The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O. (2017)
William Jones (1746–1794) Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India
" Come up higher!"
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 564.
James Spader (1960) American actor
2005 Emmy Awards acceptance speech for Best dramatic actor. Quoted at BBC News (September 19, 2005)
“I told the Congress "thanks, but no thanks" on that Bridge to Nowhere.”
Sarah Palin (1964) American politician
Republican National Convention, , quoted in [2008-09-01, Palin "bridge to nowhere" line angers many Alaskans, Yereth, Rosin, Reuters, http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/09/01/us-usa-politics-palin-idUSN3125537020080901]
On a controversial earmark for the Gravina Island Bridge
2008, 2008 Republican National Convention