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- From: roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: if at first you [do|don't] succeed...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.003957.16623@quantime.co.uk>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 00:39:57 GMT
- References: <Bzq50p.9s4@news.iastate.edu> <1992Dec23.204617.28413@cas.org>
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- In article <1992Dec23.204617.28413@cas.org>,
- kxh26@cas.org writes:
- > twlh6@isuvax.iastate.edu (randy kennedy) writes:
- > > sven@cs.widener.edu (Sven M Heinicke) writes:
- > > >jaw@magoo.uucp (Jeff Weisberg) writes:
- > > >
- > > > If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
- > > > --Unk.
- > >
- > > "If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do suck seeds."
- > > -- the 3 stooges
-
- "If at first you don't suck seed, try drier grain."
- -- Frank Muir or Denis Norden
-
- > "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your thing."
- > -- Warren Miller
-
- Who?
-
- "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
- -- Quentin Crisp, in a questionnaire from
- the Sunday Correspondent Magazine, 24 Sep 89.
- Mind you, it was in answer to the question
- "What would your motto be?",
- so he's not necessarily claiming to have coined the phrase.
-
- --
- Roger Phillips roger@quantime.co.uk
- "*holoptic* having the eyes meeting in front"
- -- Chambers English Dictionary (1988)
-