Source: Mason & Dixon (1997), Chapter 74
“Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer.”
Source: Bloody Bones
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“At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.”
Agatha Christie Murder at the Vicarage
Source: Murder at the Vicarage
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921) member of the British Royal Family, consort to Queen Elizabeth II
Said on a visit to Lockerbie in 1993 to a man who lived in a road where eleven people had been killed by wreckage from the Pan Am jumbo jet, as quoted in "Prince Philip's gaffes" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/416992.stm, BBC News (10 August 1999) <br class="br">1990s
Jarvis Cocker (1963) English musician, singer-songwriter, radio presenter and editor
Playing at Bluedot Festival (2019)
“Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.”
John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower
Source: Erak's Ransom
“To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.”
Larry Niven (1938) American writer
Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 133
Gardiner C. Means (1896–1988) American economist
Gardiner C. Means, "Price inflexibility and the requirements of a stabilizing monetary policy." Journal of the American Statistical Association 30.190 (1935): 401-413.