“You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
Clive Staples Lewis (1898–1963) Christian apologist, novelist, and Medievalist
As quoted in Of This and Other Worlds (1982) by Walter Hooper, Preface, p. 9
“You served here how long, Cornelius?’
‘Long enough to learn about what they believe. Not long enough to learn to speak their language well enough to get their confidence. Not long enough to learn how to read their books. Now I’ve three years before retirement and a measure of spare time for getting down to it.’
‘This, you know,’ Marcellus said, ‘is all wrong. You’re not here to get their confidence or read their books. They’re a colonized people. We’re here to give orders.
‘They’d rather die than obey some of the Roman orders. Besides, it’s laid down that their religion is inviolate…”
Fiction, The Kingdom of the Wicked (1985)
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“Let any man speak long enough, he will get believers.”
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The Master of Ballantrae, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.”
Yanni (1954) Greek pianist, keyboardist, composer, and music producer
Yanni in Words. Miramax Books. Co-author David Rensin
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“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Cited as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom from the 1940s onwards https://books.google.com/books?id=iNkWAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others.+You+can%27t+live+long+enough+to+make+them+all+yourself%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22make+them+all+yourself%22. Not attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt until 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=ctxi36FCi18C&pg=PA151&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others%22+%22live+long%22+roosevelt&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI_sD5mqDLAhWIKGMKHb8HAZ0Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Learn%20from%20the%20mistakes%20of%20others%22%20%22live%20long%22%20roosevelt&f=false. <br class="br">Disputed
Hyman George Rickover (1900–1986) United States admiral
Variations of this quote have been attributed to a number of people, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Samuel Levenson, and Lao Tzu; there is no solid support for any such attribution.
Misattributed