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#16998 01/27/01 11:39 PM
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Just remembered another one I can't quite get accurately, "Being positive is being wrong at the top of your voice."


#16999 01/29/01 04:45 PM
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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."


#17000 02/05/01 10:20 AM
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Only opens his/her mouth to change feet!

Familiar to me as a 'big enough mouth to get both feet in.'


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Along the same lines:

"Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely" Lord Acton

I've always thought of the saying as a great leveller.


#17002 02/05/01 03:23 PM
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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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