Anyone know of a quotation that expresses the high likelihood of those who make absolute statements to ultimately have to eat their words? I'll check Bartlett's when I get home, but I thought this might make for good conversation besides...
"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."
I think that was Abraham Lincoln. Anyway, it's very funny. There is a saying among surgeons that expresses their esteem for self-assuredness even at the expense of being correct soemtimes: "Often mistaken but never in doubt."
I thought this might make for good conversation besides...
Thank you, Fiberbabe, thank you! As one who rather more often than she likes has experienced this very thing, I ought to be able to come up with something profund, but all I can think of is: pride goeth before a fall.
CapK, you took the foot right out of my mouth! We also have that expression here in the US; well, just the latter part. And her we call the disease hoof and mouth, I think...
CapK, you took the foot right out of my mouth! We also have that expression here in the US; well, just the latter part. And here we call the disease hoof and mouth, I think...
food and mouth disease Just this weekend, saw on TV an interview with Anne Richards, former governor of Texas, who said of George W. Bush, "He was born with a silver foot in his mouth."
It's not a quotation, but dontopedalogy is defined as "the aptitude for putting one's foot in one's mouth (coined by Prince Philip unwittingly for Spiro Agnew)"
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We also have that expression here in the US; well, just the latter part. And her we call the disease hoof and mouth, I think...
