“The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.”
Source: Dreams of Steel
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American fiction writer 1944Related quotes
“Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.”
Source: Wizard and Glass
Source: The House at Pooh Corner (1928), Chapter Five - Rabbit, speaking of Christopher Robin.
“There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.”
Ronald Reagan
(1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Reagan reportedly displayed a plaque with this proverbial aphorism on his Oval Office desk (Michael Reagan, The New Reagan Revolution (2010), p. 177). Harry S. Truman is reported to have repeated versions of the aphorism on several occasions. This exact wording was in wide circulation in the 1960s, and the earliest known variant has been attributed to Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893).
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“This man doesn't get anything, although he is not a woman!”
Wolfgang Drechsler
(1963) Political Philosophy and Innovation Policy scholar
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“If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?”
Stanisław Lem
(1921–2006) Polish science fiction author
“Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man.”
Thomas Southerne
(1660–1746) Irish dramatist
Sir Anthony Love, Act ii, scene 1; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "I weigh the man, not his title; 't is not the king's stamp can make the metal better", William Wycherley, The Plaindealer, Act i. scene 1.