“If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.”

— George Carlin

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." by George Carlin?

George Carlin 270

American stand-up comedian 1937–2008

Related quotes

“If you can't beat them. Join them”

Jim Henson (1936–1990) American puppeteer

Source: Jim Henson's Storyteller

“We must have the can do spirit. For example, why must we lose to Singapore every time? Beat them at their own game, you can do it. Penang has beaten them many times.”

Lim Guan Eng (1960) Finance Minister of Malaysia

Lim Guan Eng (2018) cited in " Guan Eng: Let’s give Singapore some competition https://www.thestar.com.my/business/business-news/2018/06/19/guan-eng-lets-give-singapore-some-competition/" on The Star Online, 19 June 2018

“You can't beat white people, you can only knock them out.”

Chris Rock (1965) American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer, film producer, and director

Chris Rock on Real Time with Bill Maher, September 26, 2008
Miscellaneous

“It's because they want to sound like Americans. I'd like to see them develop our music and sing it their way, but they think sounding American is going to take them higher, but it is not. They have beautiful voices, but they want to sound like Whitney Houston. You can't beat people like that at their own game. And they can't beat me at mine, either!”

Miriam Makeba (1932–2008) South African singer and civil rights activist

Interview with Robin Denselow (May 2008)
Source: Denselow, Robin, http://arts.guardian.co.uk/filmandmusic/story/0,,2280144,00.html, Robin Denselow talks to African superstar and activist Miriam Makeba, The Guardian, 15, London, 16 May 2008, 18 November 2010

“Give them food what you have for yourself, and clothe them by which you clothe yourself, and do not beat them, and do not revile them.”

Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam

Sunan Abu-Daud Book 11, Hadith 2139 http://www.searchtruth.com/book_display.php?book=11&translator=3&start=44&number=2138#
Sunni Hadith
Context: Narrated Mu'awiyah al-Qushayri: I went to the Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) and asked him: What do you say (command) about our wives? He replied: Give them food what you have for yourself, and clothe them by which you clothe yourself, and do not beat them, and do not revile them.

“Microsoft fully understands it can't beat Apple, Amazon or Google by chasing them, but it can beat them if it both revisits its old embrace and extend strategy, and then pulls a Steve Jobs to change the market.”

Rob Enderle (1954) American financial analyst

Microsoft Build 2015: Final Thoughts http://itbusinessedge.com/blogs/unfiltered-opinion/microsoft-build-2015-final-thoughts.html in IT Business Edge (1 May 2015)

“Because not wanting the prize the gods have arranged for you - that just might offend the hell right out of them.”

Megan Whalen Turner The King of Attolia

Source: The King of Attolia

“We can't call Afghanistan minnows. They beat all the teams in the qualifiers and progressed. We are taking them very seriously. They can upset any team. We have to really play well to beat Afghanistan. They're really tough. It (2015 WC) was a very close game. They really fought hard against us. We have to fight well. If we play to our potential, we can beat them.”

Angelo Mathews (1987) Sri Lankan cricketer

On the Afghanistan cricket team, quoted on ‘’indiatoday’’, ICC World Twenty20: Sri Lanka not treating Afghanistan like minnows, says Angelo Mathews http://indiatoday.intoday.in/t20-world-cup-2016/story/icc-world-twenty20-sri-lanka-not-treating-afghanistan-like-minnows-says-angelo-mathews/1/621840.html, no date specified

“The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.”

Erica Jong (1942) Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

Becoming Light: Poems New and Selected (1991)

“I can't beat you, I can't join you.”

Harper Lee book Go Set a Watchman

Source: Go Set a Watchman

“If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

George Carlin 270

Related quotes

Related topics