“And then what?"
"I'll burn that bridge when I cross it.”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bites
“I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll double-cross that bridge when he comes to it."”
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965), p. 13; also quoted in The Quotable Politician (2003) by William B. Whitman, p. 31.
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