“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
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“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
“Actually, I think it's more immoral to use less force than necessary, than it is to use more.”
Curtis LeMay (1906–1990) American general and politician
if you use less force, you kill off more of humanity in the long run, because you are merely protracting the struggle.
Mission with LeMay: My Story (1965), p. 382.
Ann Lee (1736–1784) English Shaker leader
The Communistic Societies of the United States (1875)
Context: When I confessed my sins, I labored to remember the time when and the place where I committed them. And when I had confessed them, I cried to God to know if my confession was accepted; and by crying to God continually I traveled out of my loss.
Anne-Thérèse de Marguenat de Courcelles, marquise de Lambert (1647–1733) writer from France
Source: A Mother's Advice to Her Daughter, 1728, p. 172
“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
Ian Fleming book You Only Live Twice
Source: You Only Live Twice (1964), Ch. 21 : Orbit. Fleming is quoting Jack London directly.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947) actor, businessman and politician of Austrian-American heritage
1996
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