An old truism..

[slojoe]

He who would not when he may, when he could, he shall have nay..........anyone remember where this quote originated??

[ACW3]

I would refer this to our resident guru on quotes, Dee.

Art

[teesquare]

He who would not when he may, when he could, he shall have nay..........anyone remember where this quote originated??

Hugh Hefner? Bruce Jenner?....Capt' Kangaroo....  The supense is killin' me!    Actually - it sounds like Elizabethan era prose....Chaucer? Lord Byron? Which means it is probably Red Skelton.......

[Ka Honu]

... sounds like Elizabethan era prose...

Farther back than that - found in Old English references (c. 1000 AD), may have biblical origins. Or not.

[muralboy]

My initial guess is Oedipus

[muralboy]

My initial guess is Oedipus

Or Sophocles

[slojoe]

For some reason, I remember this quote from a Texaco commercial back in the early 60's, don't know why, well today, after several good guesses had to google it myself, attributed to  an English dude named John Heywood in an 1867 book called The Proverbs and Epigrams of John Heywood, guess I learned something.

[Ka Honu]

Look a little deeper. Heywood was not the originator; he just included it (and many others) in his anthology.

[TwoPockets]

Made my head hurt.

[deestafford]

Turtle know of what he speaks...it was his  tenth grade English teacher.  Dee

[Ka Honu]

Possibly even before him... but probably not much since he retired about 1,600 years ago.

[muebe]

Dee the Turtle is not that old. The students did have tablets in his class when he was in tenth grade. So what if they were stone tablets. Still very advanced for that time.