
“The louder a man tells you he’s honest, the harder you must hold onto your purse.”
Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1993)
In Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens
“The louder a man tells you he’s honest, the harder you must hold onto your purse.”
Two Rivers saying
(15 October 1993)
John Selby Watson, The Life of Richard Porson, M.A. (1861), p. 385.
“I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.”
“An English gentleman never shines his shoes, but then nor does a lazy bastard.”
Source: Dorian
The Knights of Arthur (p. 398)
Platinum Pohl (2005)
“You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.”
The Irrational Knot, Preface (1905)
1900s