“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me.”
Source: Count Your Blessings
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George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
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“Only fools offend me, woman, and they but once.”
C. L. Moore (1911–1987) American author
Jirel Meets Magic (1935); p. 94
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“My feelings for you shame me into silence.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
Source: Solipsist
tr. Lindsay 1925, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Lys.+1014 <br class="br">Lysistrata, line 1014-1017 <br class="br">Lysistrata (411 BC)
Anthony Weiner (1964) American politician
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