
The New Yorker (February 19, 2001)
Subjects for Painters, The Gentleman and his Wife; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 617.
The New Yorker (February 19, 2001)
Remarks on his abandonment of a personal account of the early history of the United States and the American Revolution, as quoted by Benjamin Rush in his memoirs.
“Can we ever have too much of a good thing?”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 6.
Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education (1954)
“People may say I can't sing, but no one can ever say I didn't sing.”
Attributed without citation in Vernon Alfred Howard, Charm and Speed: Virtuosity in the Performing Arts http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qLXVeMzOvncC&pg=PA129&dq=%22People+may+say+I+can%27t+sing,+but+no+one+can+ever+say+I+didn%27t+sing.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=V4nPUqCCMs2ThgeusoGwAw&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22People%20may%20say%20I%20can%27t%20sing%2C%20but%20no%20one%20can%20ever%20say%20I%20didn%27t%20sing.%22&f=false (2008), p. 129.
Source: The 80/20 principle: the secret of achieving more with less (1999), p. 28
“The world is full of good people who do bad things!”