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Title: An old truism..
Post by: slojoe on November 03, 2015, 04:30:50 PM: He who would not when he may, when he could, he shall have nay..........anyone remember where this quote originated??
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Post by: ACW3 on November 03, 2015, 09:14:57 PM: I would refer this to our resident guru on quotes, Dee.

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Post by: teesquare on November 03, 2015, 09:20:16 PM: Quote from: slojoe on November 03, 2015, 04:30:50 PM
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! ;D Actually - it sounds like Elizabethan era prose....Chaucer? Lord Byron? Which means it is probably Red Skelton....... :D
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Post by: Ka Honu on November 03, 2015, 11:31:32 PM: Quote from: teesquare on November 03, 2015, 09:20:16 PM
... sounds like Elizabethan era prose...

Farther back than that - found in Old English references (c. 1000 AD), may have biblical origins. Or not.
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Post by: muralboy on November 04, 2015, 03:23:03 AM: My initial guess is Oedipus
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Post by: muralboy on November 04, 2015, 03:24:31 AM: Quote from: muralboy on November 04, 2015, 03:23:03 AM
My initial guess is Oedipus

Or Sophocles
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Post by: slojoe on November 04, 2015, 05:20:54 PM: 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.
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Post by: Ka Honu on November 04, 2015, 08:47:02 PM: Look a little deeper. Heywood was not the originator; he just included it (and many others) in his anthology.
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Post by: TwoPockets on November 04, 2015, 10:26:17 PM: Made my head hurt.
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Post by: deestafford on November 05, 2015, 08:57:54 PM: Turtle know of what he speaks...it was his tenth grade English teacher. Dee
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Post by: Ka Honu on November 05, 2015, 11:45:47 PM: Possibly even before him... but probably not much since he retired about 1,600 years ago.
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Post by: muebe on November 06, 2015, 11:03:54 AM: 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.