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Sound Bite to Remember Tuesday, Aug 2 2011

Aphorisms quotations victorgold 10:43 am

“Never criticize a man unless you’ve walked a mile in his shoes. By then he’ll be a mile away and won’t have any shoes to chase you in.”

–Wimp Sanderson, Alabama basketball coach (circa 1985)

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

— Lord Acton, 1887 (pre-Twitter)

“Vanity is an actor’s courage.” – Jackie Gleason

“There is nothing so uncertain as a dead sure thing.”

–George M. Cohan

“Never play checkers with a man who carries his own board.”

— Branch Rickey

“It is a great advantage to a President and a major source of safety to the country for him to know he is not a great man.”

— Calvin Coolidge

Aphorisms quotations victorgold 3:13 pm

“I’ll tell you when you’ve really made it big. It’s when you die and the newspapers keep running stories that you haven’t.”

— Bob Orben

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Victor Gold is a Washington journalist whose most recent book was "Invasion of the Party Snatchers: How the Holy-Rollers and Neo-Cons Destroyed the GOP." A former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush, he co-authored the former president's autobiography, "Looking Forward." Included among his other books is "The Body Politic," a satirical fiction written with Lynne Cheney, then-chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Gold lives with his wife, Dale, and two paleo-conservative cats. (Photograph by JohnNelsonPhoto.com)
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