“They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Under the Red Sky (1990), Hard Times In New York Town (recorded 1961)
“You wanna show them that you're really not scared,
You're playing with your life, this ain't no truth or dare,
They'll kick you then they'll beat you then they'll tell you it's fair,
So beat it.”
Beat It
Thriller (1982)
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“If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
Credited to Shaw in the lead in to the mockumentary C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) and other recent works, but this or slight variants of it are also sometimes attributed to W. C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin, and Oscar Wilde. It might possibly be derived from Shaw's statement in John Bull's Other Island (1907): "My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world."
Another possibility is that it is derived from Shaw's characteristic of Mark Twain: "He has to put things in such a way as to make people who would otherwise hang him believe he is joking."
Variants:
If you are going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise, they'll kill you.
If you're going to tell people the truth, you'd better make them laugh. Otherwise, they'll kill you.
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Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Excerpt from 2017 Personality Lecture 21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9U5IHQWSZc <br class="br">Personality Lectures
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 216
Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence
“Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.”
Connie Brockway (1954) American writer
Source: The Bridal Season