“Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Wednesday 17 June 2020 interview in the Oval Office according to 19 June 2020 article https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-talks-juneteenth-john-bolton-economy-in-wsj-interview-11592493771 by Michael Bender of Wall Street Journal, highlighted 21 June 2020 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/donald-trump-tulsa-rally-crowd-empty-seats by Richard Wolffe of The Guardian <br class="br">2020, June 2020
“Once I did bad and that I heard ever. Twice I did good, but that I heard never.”
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“You’re talking about Vietnam and at that time nobody had ever heard of the country.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Trump was describing the US knowledge about Vietnam in 1968, when about one half million US troops were stationed in Vietnam, as quoted in [Trump says was 'never a fan' of Vietnam War, and that Americans hadn't heard of country in 1968, Japan Times, https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/06/06/world/politics-diplomacy-world/trump-says-never-fan-vietnam-war-claims-americans-hadnt-heard-country-1968/#.XraZ4hMzbOQ]
2010s, 2019, June
“We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important.”
Heinrich Rohrer (1933–2013) Swiss physicist
Interview with Heinrich Rohrer at the Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, 9 April, 2008. The interviewer is Adam Smith, Editor-in-Chief of Nobelprize.org.
Context: We had the freedom to make mistakes. That's something very important. Unfortunately, this freedom for scientists gets more and more lost. … Otherwise, you do the common things. You don't dare to do something beyond what everybody else thinks.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742–1799) German scientist, satirist
E 91
Variant translation: A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)
“I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh.”
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
9 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
"To the Indianapolis Clergy." The Iconoclast (Indianapolis, IN) (1883)
Context: There is also this remarkable fact: Paul quotes none of the miracles of the New Testament. He says not one word about the multitude being fed miraculously, not one word about the resurrection of Lazarus, nor of the widow’s son. He had never heard of the lame, the halt, and the blind that had been cured; or if he had, he did not think these incidents of enough importance to be embalmed in an epistle.