“Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia,' but only slightly less well known is this: 'Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.”
Source: The Princess Bride
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American novelist, screenwriter and playwright 1931–2018Related quotes
“Nature never makes blunders; when she makes a fool she means it.”
Affurisms. From Josh Billings: His Sayings (1865)
Kenneth Boulding (1990). "Taxonomy as a Source of Error." in Methodus Vol 2. p. 17-21, as cited in: Deirdre McCloskey (2013) " What Boulding Said Went Wrong with Economics, A Quarter Century On http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/editorials/boulding.php"
1990s and attributed
A. J. Sylvester's diary entry (24 January 1941), Colin Cross (ed.), Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45 (London: Macmillan, 1975), p. 287
Later life
Source: The Sirens of Titan (1959), Chapter 6 “A Deserter in Time of War” (p. 162)
Quote from an interview, "Top Authority Looks at Vietnam War and Its Future", U.S. News & World Report (February 21, 1966), p. 42.
“What kind of fool am I?
I never fell in love.”
Song What kind of fool am I?
These Dreams of You
Song lyrics, Moondance (1970)
“When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.”
“Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.”
Source: The House of the Spirits